Tuesday – Thursday – Friday – Sunday
Martes – Jueves – Viernes – Domingo

http://www.contactimprovisacion.com/jams.html

Bailar con la gravedad, la masa, la inercia y el momentum. Conectase con uno mismo , los otros y el espacio. Entrenar los caminos orgánicos para caer y volar. Activar los reflejos. Estar presentes, estar alertas.

En las clases se trabajan principios y habilidades del CI como rolar, espiralar, subir, bajar, pesar, contrapesar, balancear, sostener, suspender, caer, saltar. Para todos los niveles de experiencia. Principiantes y mentes de principiante, bienvenidos.

Espacio para la práctica libre, entrenamiento e investigación de Contact Improvisación donde cada uno sigue su propio interés de movimiento y expresión. El límite es la libertad y seguridad de todos. El desafío, la co-creación.

Space for Contact Improvisation free practice, training and research where each participant follows their own interest in movement and expression. The limits is everyone’s freedom and safety. The challenge is co-creation.

We will explore the fluid movement rolling, sliding, entering and going out of the floor, flying, moving in contact with others, improvise together…

Cultivaremos un estado de “estar presentes”, buscando cómo movernos con menos esfuerzo aprovechando el “momentum”, la inercia, rolando, espiralando.Exploraremos cómo encontrar el soporte interno de nuestro movimiento para encontrarnos luego con otros.

Classes are open to all levels of experience and will include playful explorations of general embodiment through movement, dancing states for improvisation & fundamental Contact Improvisation skills.
Participants should expect to feel invigorated, yet relaxed, with an increased sense of body awareness and integration.

The Melbourne CI jam has been dancing almost a decade and a half. With its first few years at the Victorian College of the Arts, the jam has resided the majority of its time at Cecil Street Studio.

The Melbourne Jam welcomes all levels of CI experience and abilities, including absolute beginners. Generally, there is an open structure, with no led warm-ups, but there are jam regulars available to offer some guidance if needed, however…
The first jam of the month has a lead intro from one of the jam regulars, to help people along. Ideal for beginners. Lead intro goes from 6 – 7 pm.

If you are passing through town be sure to stop in!

Contact Improvisation tuition, workshops, masterclasses and jams.
For up-to-date information about classes and jams in Sydney, please visit:

www.facebook.com/contactinsydney
or
www.momentuminsydney.com

You can also contact Alejandro directly:
Phone: +61401340093
email: rolandi@tpg.com.au

Biography:
Alejandro Rolandi is a visual and performing artist, originally from Buenos Aries Argentina. He has practiced Contact Improvisation for over 15 years and has been teaching in Sydney since 2002. Alejandro has hosted, attended and organised several workshops around the world, working with many international artists. He has taught Contact Improvisation for local and international companies, including Legs on the Wall, Stalker Theatre, Zen Zen Zo, Shaun Parker, Kate Championʼs Force Majeure and The Lasalle College (Singapore). He teaches regularly at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), ACPE and the University of NSW.
Alejandro has also trained in physical and aerial theatre and is the director of Strings Attached Physical Theatre Company (www.stringsattached.com.au).
Alejandro’s classes are always fun and challenging, with a technical focus but also driven by imagery and inspirational somatic descriptions. His attention to physical and emotional safety, provides the students with the perfect environment for personal growth.

Classes include mindful meditation, CI technique and skills training and playful exploration of the form.
All skill levels are welcome from beginners to advanced.
Teachers include Robyn Seiboth, John Addis & Mircalla Havier.

Formed in 2010 the Sydney Sunday Jam is running strong.

The jam has an open structure, with self directed warm-ups.

All levels of CI experience and abilities are welcome.

We recommend beginners attend at least one class before coming to the Jam.

We also often have live musicians playing for us, so if you happen to be in Sydney drop by!

Contact Improvisation jam in Graz EVERY sunday (including holidays)19.30 – 22.00

OPEN SPACE JAM

Improvisationsabend und Dialograum für TänzerInnen und MusikerInnen

Die OPEN SPACE JAM bietet Raum und Zeit für alle Beginners und erfahrenen TänzerInnen zum Tanzen und Improvisieren.

Herzlich willkomen sind MusikerInnen und KünstlerInnen, die in ihrer Kunst eine Möglichkeit sehen, gemeinsam mit Bewegungsfreudigen einen Dialog der Improvisation zu gestalten.

Wir freuen uns auf alle, die Freude am Tanzen und Musizieren haben!

Sensorische Wahrnehmung und Körperlogik, Rythmus und Dynamik, Stille und Bewegung, eine zentrierte und offene Geisteshaltung sowie Scores und Improvsiationsstrukturen vereinen sich zu freudvoller tänzerischer und musikalischer Bewegung und Begegnung.

Contact Impro Jam every month on last friday. it happens on different places in the south part of Austria. pleace contact n_meixner@yahoo.de for more info.

Jam in the AAC, 95 rue du petit chêne. Twice a month from 3pm to 6pm. The first 30 minutes are led, and then the jam occurs.

Special aproach of Fernando Neder, with Organic Music, make this class a unique experience, alowing all to taste improvisation with body, voice and soul.

Monthly Jam at Rio de Janeiro, with live and Organic Music, drugs and alcohol free.

Upcoming Contact Improvisation Jams – Hosted by Angela Meyer – soon to be every Sunday! Come explore and share the giving and taking of weight, falling, rolling, playing, and the awesome-ness that is the floor. Those who would rather watch and/or play music are also welcomed to join. All levels of experience are welcome. Some basic introduction to the form will be available for beginners.

Please advise if you have accessibility issues with the stairs leading up to the studio space.

Every Sunday, ACI Montreal offers a Contact Improvisation Jam at UQAM.
Come to meet our community and share the dance with us! There is an all-level class just before the jam.

Contact improv on tatami mats with live music!

Check Facebook for details

Open Jam
Every Monday Night
Drop-in if you are passing through town!

Ottawa’s only contact improvisation dance jam! All are welcome! http://contactimprov.ca/

Happening every Sunday morning since 1978

WHAT:Learn and practice the art of contact dance

For nearly 30 years EDAM (experimental dance and music) has facilitated space for contact improvisation jams in its bright, spacious studio. The sprung floor is without a doubt one of the warmest, softest and friendliest in North America.

A guided dance flow, followed by a contact jam.

tuesdays 10 to 12 noon

In this class you learn tools to help facilitate this improvised contact dance.
Through:
- Structured conceptual exercises
- We isolate movements and situations that occure in improvises and break them down, talk about them, and work on them
- Time is given at the end of the class for a jam/round robin which offers the chance for people to explore the dance fully.

all are welcome
no experience required

what to wear:
comfortable, movable clothes…
no watches, jewelry…
barefoot…

JAM

Every Sunday 6.30 pm weekly jams
Coming nearby? Come to the jam !

Email Jam > >> jam (arrobase) chorescence (point ) org
2d Sunday of the month Focus Jams
Every 2d Sunday of the Month, at the MJC des Allobroges (see above)

The regular jam becomes a ‘focused jam’

A few rules encourage us to focus and be fully present into our body and into the space. It is also encourage to find encounters beyond the duet.

A theme is offered that you can use all the time, at some moments, or ignore

A circle is offered at 6.30 and at 9.00 p in order to share our questions, experiences, states etc..

It is encouraged to come for the full session including the circles.



The jam stops sometimes at Christmas or during the summer, please check the website or call

MORE INFO / http://www.chorescence.org/ENGLISH/jams.htm

CLASSES & OTHER INFOS:
http://www.chorescence.org/ENGLISH/welcome.htm

Masterclass CD/ CI for professional Dancers with Ivan Wolfe

Starting point of Ivan Wolfe’s work is a special raising of awareness of the body and its mouvement. The warm up thus starts by means of the Feldenkreistechnic that heightens sensibility and increases abilties in order to pick up complex choreographies. The class continues with improvisation, working with the means of contact impro, floor work and body-weight. Wolfe’s class is meant to support a dance that brings a feeling of comfort with ones mouvement while at the same time enlarging the body’s abilities and inspiring new mouvement.

Ivan Wolfe is an enthusiastic mouver who during the past 25 years has been interested in various styles of dance and mouvement. He was a long time memnber of David Parsons and Elisa Monte in New York, as well as of the Company Drift in Switzerland. His education ranges from studying sports and psychology, to experiences in Ballet, Jazz-dance, Modern, Yoga, massage, Pilates, African Dance, Contact Impro, Butoh and the Feldenkreistechnic. It proofs him a choreographer and teacher constantly on the search eager to find new ways of mouvement and body-work and makes him a teacher with rich knowledge, internationally demanded in the fields of Contemporary Dance, Contact Impro and Feldenkreitechnic.

Starting on 18 September 2011

Every first and third Sunday of the month: contact improvisation workshops with different teachers

The other Sundays: jam !

organized by the Réseau Contact Improvisation Toulouse

The classes are given by the members of the network, Emmanuel Grivet, Nien Mari Chatz, Katia Notz and others

Visitors welcome !

This jam is happening the first, third and fifth friday every months. It is a jam with live music, where the focus is on dialoging with your dance partners and the music. There is space for performances

international weekend-jam from 10-12. february 2012,
Germany, 74906 Bad Rappenau-Zimmerhof.

more information:
www.http.contact-improvisation.org/jams/mosbach

The idea is to create a space where we, adults and kids can dance and play together. In this jam kids are not a disruptive sideeeffect, but wir direct our focus to frame this jam together. What happens between the kids? What between kids and adults? What between the adults?

Adults without kids are mostly welcome.

Price: 3 für Erwachsene, 1,5 € Kind

Place. Phynix tanzt, Hasenheide 54, 10965 Berlin 2/3. Hof, 3. Stock

This jam takes places since sep 2012. We meet continuously in Dresden-Neustadt city-center.

beautiful room!

In D-79837 Ibach/Südlicher Hochschwarzwald auf 1000m Höhe. Inklusive vegetarische Bio-Vollverpflegung im Öko-Holzhaus, Übernachtung mit Isomatte und Schlafsack im Tanzraum. Angeleitete Warm-Ups, Bodywork und sehr schöner Live-Impromusik. Vorkenntnisse in Contact erwünscht. 10€ Aufzahlung für Water-Flow-Dance-Einführung und Badeeintritt am Sonntag.

FREITAG
Ab 17 Uhr Ankommen (bitte benutzt alle den Parkplatz bei der Ibacher Gemeindehalle (zum Ökohaus + Abendessen ca. 300m die Straße bergauf gehen)
Beginn Uhrzeit: 18 Uhr Abendessen, Hochtal 29, D-79837 Ibach
20 Uhr Eröffnungskreis danach Contact

SAMSTAG
ab 8 Uhr Frühstück
10 Uhr Contact
13 Uhr Mittagessen
15 Uhr bei schönem Wetter in der Natur
ansonsten angeleitetes Bodywork
18.30 Uhr Abendessen
20 Uhr Contact

SONNTAG
Ab 8 Uhr Frühstück
Danach Clean-Up Tanzparty
11 Uhr Abfahrt zum Revitalbad in Menzenschwand
11.30 Uhr Einführung in Water-Flow-Dance, Underwater-Contact-Dance-Jam
14 Uhr Abschlusskreis im Wasser

www.christinefreitag.de

“X-Hain Contact Improvisation Jam” in " YogaRaum Berlin – great floor in lovely penthouse studio.
Evry Sunday 19:00-23:00 – Pfuelstr.5 – yogaraumberlin.de

Jamming in a warm 65m² room | oak wood floor | clay walls | showers | Wednesdays 20:30-23:30 | Kastanienallee 77 – Prenzlauer Berg/Berlin

We are a group of dancers who meet for a montly contact improvisation jam open to dancers and musicians at all levels. There is no teacher during the jam, so previous experience with contact improvisation is necessary.

Jam with a 90 Min Introduction, on Frydays 19.30
Ballettverein Ulm, Wagnerstr. 65/1,

Contact Basiscs Class is on Wednesdays 20.00

please contact: Ursula Ritter 0731 1533973, 0160 94909438 , mail: taradance@t-online

Für kurzentschlossene die pfingsten nicht nach potsdam wollen – wir Jammen in Wismar am 11.- showing am12.Juni 2011

In der Kulturmühle Wismar

Eine CONTACT-JAM stattfinden.

Die Kulturmühle ist ein besonderer Ort, in dem in Zukunft Kunst, Tanz, Theater und Musik zusammen kommen, Punktum ideal für CONTACT!

Also: AUF ZUR OSTSEE!!

Das Wetter ist auf mindestens 22°C und Sonne vorbestellt!

Wo :Wir werden sowohl in einem leerstehenden Mühlenspeicher,

als auch unter einem Eindrucksvollen Baum tanzen!

Diese Hängebuche ist wie ein Zimmer begehbar…

Diesmal werden wir am Samstag ab 11 Uhr jammen bis die Sterne leuchten! Am Samstag werden wir das ganze Gelände für uns haben .

Am Sonntag werden wir dann den Besuchern um 12:00 ein Showing unter dem Baum zeigen.

Kinder sind herzlich willkommen und erwünscht

Adresse : An der Klußer Mühle 23966 Wismar

Anreise: Mit der Bahn: Bahnhof Wismar + Bus 25 in Richtung Lübow

Ausstieg: Klußer Mühle

Mit dem Auto: von Wismar in Richtung Schwerin (Bundesstr.) 1. Gebäude nach dem Ortsschild Kluß

Übernachten könnte ihr auf dem Tanzboden oder im Zelt: KOSTENLOS!

Baden im Bach!

Verpflegung: Am Samstag werden wir, aus dem was jeder mitbringt abends, ein kulinarisches Gelage und mittags ein Picknick kreieren!

Bringt alle Leckereien mit – Wir konnen Grillen und Kochen auf offenem Feuer.

Am Sonntag wird im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe ein leckeres Mittagessen günstig zu bekommen sein.

Schön wäre es wenn ihr noch einen Teppich (Typ Perser o.ä.) mitbringen könntet, der auch draußen ausgelegt werden kann.

Anmeldung, Fragen und Fahrgemeinschaften unter:

Annelie Günter Tel
annelieghh@yahoo.de

Ongoing Athens Jam for the last 12 years.
If someone passes by Athens, make a stop over at studio "Lathos kinisi" (Wrong Movement). We are hungry for new bodies

An open space for Contact Improvisation Practitioners of any level/ background
Beginners are welcome!!

Every Friday evening we have a Jam from 8 pm to 11 pm, in Budapest at the Kontakt Budapest Studio. There is always a short class prior to the jam for those wish to warm up and tune or practice together. This hour is led by the teacher team of Kontakt Budapest, icluding: Tamás Bakó, Péter Lipka, Eszter Gál.
http://www.facebook.com/KontaktBudapestStudio

Every third saturday of the month, come join our Jam with live music

every 1° and 3° wednesday we organise a Contact Jam in Pontedera, 20km from Pisa.

From 8pm, with the possibility to come from 6.30 for joyn a yoga Iyengar class.

We going to celebrate carnival dancing in the heart of Rome with lessons, jams and a parade danced in the street.

PROGRAM:

WHERE:
At the Y.W.C.A. Via Cesare Balbo, 4 (Metro A and B: Terms, Republic, Cavour – the train station and bus terminal: Termini)

REGISTRATION:
To enroll you must pay a deposit of 25 euros and you will receive the account number following your email request.
The email must contain your name, phone number and if you request.

We remain at your disposal for any questions.

See you soon!
RomaContact
Vera De Propris, Glenda Giacco and Barbara Lucarini

In Rome a CI jam with Francis www.mimoterapia.com
will be a short workshop then jam
contact number 335376906 Paco

La Contact Improvisation è essenzialmente un dialogo.
Gli incontri si propongono di esplorare i fondamenti della Contact Improvisation in una dialettica tra guidare e seguire che svilupperà le nostre capacità di ascolto. Faremo esperienza dei principi fisici, anatomici, posturali, sensoriali/percettivi che il nostro corpo attraverso il movimento ci insegna.
Gli interlocutori procedono insieme nella creazione della danza attraverso l’ascolto e la condivisione del peso del corpo, delle sensazioni fisiche, dell’immaginazione e delle informazioni provenienti dall’ambiente.

There is a very nice Contact Community here in Kyoto*, primarily organized around a series of regular Contact Workshops held throughout the year. We’re just starting to complement those workshops with a series of regular JAMs.
For the moment, we are focused upon organizing semi-regular gatherings. Everyone is welcome.

@majima studio
2nd. lead Hiroko, 4th.Yasukichi

monthly live music drinking C I jam.
@ araiyakushi special colors

at Riga School of Choreography
Kalnciema iela 10/12

Very welcome to our small group that tries to make a nice, warm community from ourselves! :)
We’re having different event on each Sunday each month- there is open jam, focused jam, lab and the authentic movement session.

Freshest and more detailed info: http://i-deja.lv/dance/contact-improvisation/

Lithuanian, Russian and Belorusian people are rugular jammers here :)sometimes we have Hungarian, Latvian and other unexpected guests…
You come, and you never know who is going to be here. Beautiful!
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Silence, music, tea, no tea, apple jam…

Workshop material will be suited for all levels, focusing on the basics of contact improvisation. Topics and skills that might be explored include rolling, spiraling, giving and supporting weight, sloughing, catching, falling, and flying. There could also be bodywork and dance improvisation topics such as alignment, imagery, composition, states, and scores.

Teacher: David Lim

Jam every Third saturday of the month.
It is an encounter for musicians, dancers and people interested in moving, and making Contact Improvisation.

Next Jam!!! Saturday July 20th, 2013. This time will be in Rio Abierto Mexico City.
Class by Jaime Lobato Cardoso.

• jam every Saturday afternoon
  before the jam is a class by a different teacher every week

In these classes we will work and learn the main principles and technique of this dance – Momentum, balance, Counter balance, Connection, weight transfer, Rolling, Falling, lifting and most important – Improvisation during the dance.
The class and exercises are for advanced people with C.I experience and also for beginners who takes their first steps into this world.

come in contact with yourself and expand.

breath and ground brings us in the body
with this base we move further moment by moment
by rolling, lifting, turning, leaning, playing…

selected music opens the space for different realms

trough initial guidance we can go deeper

CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM EVERY MONTH
next dates: saturday 18 februari, saturday 18 march

Join the workshop with changing teachers, designed for all levels, as an introduction, warm up and for new inspiration.
Afterwards open Jam with live music!
Jump in and dance, or watch, as you like.

weekly class in Utrecht on wednesdays (18:30-20:15)
(not during school-holydays)

email:     info at Dansavontuur dot nl

Contact Improvisation is a dance form that uses momentum, weight, gravity and the contact with another body or surface to find a way to move through the space. The LAB is a way for beginners to learn some skills to use in the jam and for them to feel comfortable and give them starting points and confidence to get up and dance!!

Contact Improvisation

Back to Earth – The A, B, C of Contact Improvisation

In this workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of contact improvisation and take them into dancing with a partner in a contact duet.

We begin by arriving into our bodies and establishing a receptive, passive and active relationship to the floor and the earth.

We experience the skinesphere – everything that is contained within the boundaries of the body and how the skinesphere leads to bonding with gravity and the earth. We learn to engage with, mobilise and release our weight and physical mass, allowing sensation, skin, surfaces of the body and internal information to guide our motion.

We practise moving between high tone, low tone, flexion, extension, close to the earth and from there up to standing and travelling. We incorporate the BMC developmental movement patterns – rolling, sliding, creeping, pushing, crawling, finding supports and learning how to sequence, spiral and distribute energy and movement from the spine and centre to the limbs and peripheries.

We move through the space, along the floor, up to standing and back down to earth again, expanding our awareness to include others and the room.

We explore different kinds of touch, contact with a partner and we learn basic CI forms and exercises that allow us to practise this form safely and with confidence. We become articulate with moving our weight, structure and physical mass in contact with a partner, the floor, gravity and the physical forces of momentum, intertia, counterbalance, support, flow, direction and sensation.

We negotiate and navigate physical pathways in contact with each other, on different levels from lying and standing to being airborne. We explore being passive and active, receptive and directional, learning to trust ourselves, our bodies and the physical information we are receiving in a moving duet.

We take our skills into open dancing and jamming to embody them more deeply and to become articulate and fluent dancing with different partners.

The workshop will bring you to a place where your physical perceptions are stretched and strengthened, your vitality and sensitivity are heightened and your appetite, confidence and capacity for moving and dancing alone and with a partner is increased.

For beginners and seasoned dancers of contact improvisation and other dance forms.

We run an half an hour warm-up and exercises and then we start the jam.

Every Wednesday we meet in the old manufacture workshop transformed into dancing space.

We are a group of friends, we organise jams and labs by ourselves and try to experiment a bit. If you want to come over with your own idea you are more than welcome :)

We invite you every Sunday for a JAM of contact improvisation in Wroclaw. Every week there is defferent JAM… with life music, silent, blind JAM… with a warm-up or a LAB led by different people from our group. The place of JAMs is based in the center od the city in the Yoga School next to ‘Dom Handlowy Podwale’.
You’re most welcome to join our dance!

Contacto Improvisação Lisboa Jam (CILxJam), Lisbon’s Contact Improvisation Jam, is a meeting place, a space for mutual learning and sharing amongst performers with or without experience in this form and in osmosis with other forms of performative, musical, theatrical, audio-visual, and technological improvisation; a space to strengthen the local Portuguese and international performance communities; an experimental site for the emergence of collaborative creative synergies.

Contact Improvisation Jam in Cluj, Romania. Small but loving community. everyone is welcomed.

Friday Moscow jam and class lead by Angela Doniy and (sometimes) other teachers.

Sunday jam and class lead by Masha Grudskaya

Wednesday jam and class lead by Katya Velichko and (sometimes) other teachers.

happens every Monday. Class before jam is lead by different CI people from SPb and sometimes by other CI teachers who travel via SPb.

Due to the lost of the space that host the regular Jam, the Regular Jam is currently on hold. There might be some random Jam and/or event going on in this region. If you want to find out more, please do email singaporecontactimprov@gmail.com for enquires.

For those who wish to enquire further into the discipline of improvisation, we offer a new series of weekly classes that investigate improvisation as performance.

Like chilli brings out the flavour of chocolate, performance of improvisation heightens one's experience of the practice of being present.

We will tune in with bodywork and explore the building blocks of performance improvisation in a supportive environment.

Este taller tiene como objetivo preparar a sus participante para la danza, tanto en su preparación física (mediante la utilización de diversas técnicas motrices y un trabajo anatómico conciente) como en lo que respecta a sus capacidades sensoriales ( equilibrio, información táctil, visión periférica). A su vez se prestará particular atención a la comunicación corporal, ampliando la capacidad de “escucha”, así como la capacidad de reacción y de iniciativa para lograr que cada “interprete” pueda inventar el movimiento a partir de lo que su pareja va inventando simultáneamente; pudiendo de esta manera acceder a la improvisación mas fácilmente y sin “racionalizar” los movimientos….
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This workshop aims to prepare its participants for the dance, both in physical preparation (using different techniques and anatomical work drivers aware) and in regard to their sensory abilities (balance, tactile information, peripheral vision) . At the same time will pay particular attention to body language, extending the ability to "listen"as well as resilience and initiative to ensure that each “performer” to invent the movement from what your partner is simultaneously inventing , and can thus access the improvisation more easily and “rationalize” the movements… (Spanish language)
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Espacio para la libre improvisación de la danza contact, en donde nos permitimos jugar, aprender y explorar con el cuerpo como vehículo de la expresión.

Space for free improvisation contact dance, where we would play, learn and explore the body as a vehicle of expression.

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Jam

Open jam session. Come to see, dance, share,participate.
calle Nuñez de Arce 11, bajo
Madrid – Spain
next to Plaza Santa Ana
Metro Station: Sol – Sevilla

every second sunday jam and pre-jam class in Madrid,in Espacio Temporal.Calle Loreto y Chicote,3(metro Gran vía).

This is our 4th year with this activity.40-50 people dancing

also see: http://www.tuena.ch/contact_improvisation/contact_improvisation_en.htm

The Chiang Mai Contact Lab is a community space for personal exploration and deepening through the form of Contact Improvisation.

Beginners welcome. We offer a teaching session at the beginning of class, including fundamental concepts and techniques to assist you in your exploration, and plenty of time for your dance.

We hold space weekly throughout the year and welcome visiting dancers, teachers and musicians.

Please check our Facebook page for current schedule, location and guidelines.

During these sessions, we will explore some of the key principles of contact improvisation to develop a language that can be used for jamming. There will be a strong focus on exploration, improvisation and play. The classes are open for those new to contact and improvisation and for experienced dancers. There will be a progression of material over the weeks. However, participants can choose when to attend.

We do warmup together, conducted by one of local teachers. And then it’s only dance happening

Every Friday we get together to spend 2 hours dancing. After led warmup we enjoy free movement, massage and meditation. Oh, and do not forget tea afterwords!

There are a few classes and jams held in Bristol, UK. Checkout the website for updates.

SUNDAY Class & Jam
There is a regular warm-up class followed by a jam on most Sunday nights from 5.30-8.30pm at DMAC studio (4th floor), Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY

MONDAY Class
There are also classes sometimes held on Monday nights from 7.15-9.45pm. These classes are held at the Wild Goose Space, 228 Mina Road, St Werburghs, Bristol BS2 9YP.

OTHERS
It is also worth checking out the website for one-off classes or jams in the area.

Contact improvisation classes and jams are held on Saturdays at the Moving East Centre for Martial Arts, Dance and Complimentary Medicine in Stoke Newington. All levels of experience are welcome and booking is not required. To attend the class please arrive at 11.15 in order to start at 11.30. The class is followed by a three-hour jam which can be attended independently of the class.

Contact improvisation classes and jams every second Sunday of the month

All levels of experience are welcome and booking is not required.

The class is followed by a three-hour jam which can be attended independently of the class.

Tuesday evening class for an hour and a half, with warm up and principles into dancing. Usng Body Mind Centering and martial arts to warm into the body, to ease the flow of movement and sharpen the focus.

Our contact improv group meets for scheduled jams at ASU, with occasional workshops led by contact improv teachers from across the country.

Every Saturday this long-running jam attracts 15-20 dancers and sometimes fills up with 25-30. This jam is a delightful mix of Bay Area locals and visitors from all over the world with a variety of experience. New people to the form are welcome and there is a class beforehand from 1:30-3:30 for all levels.

The Thursday Jam is a weekly all-level open contact improv and movement space from 8:30-11:30pm.

The jam is held at the lovely and spacious Finnish Hall in Berkeley. This is a beautiful venue with high arched ceilings, forced-air heat, and 2300 sq. ft of nice oak dance floor. It’s located at 1970 Chestnut St in Berkeley (near University/Sacramento) just 3 blocks from the North Berkeley BART station.
(Map and directions)

The jam offers an inclusive environment that is warm, friendly and very welcoming of folks new to Contact Improv. There is a varied soundscape with a mix of silence, downtempo/ambient recorded tracks, and occasionally tasteful improvised live music.

We look forward to seeing you!

Spend an early lunch hour (or hour-plus) in a playful atmosphere, dancing contact improvisation and/or exploring the wealth of interesting equipment and people at Athletic Playground. (Nice clean floor too!)

Everyone welcome, from “beginner” to “advanced with beginner’s mind.”

With the blessings of the Athletic Playground management, this gathering takes place during “Open Play” time at the Playground, where non-members can always drop in from 9:30am until 12:00 noon for only $5.

Join us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/256760637700669/0

Off street parking available in the lot adjacent to the Playground. Wheelchair accessible. Please no scents.

More info about Athletic Playground: http://www.athleticplayground.com/

Playful Jam Website: https://sites.google.com/site/playfulcontactjam/

Monday Night Contact Improv Class and Jam
All levels welcome!

Spring Workshop with Michael Doonan

Contact Improv for Actors explores the fundamentals of physical preparation through stretch, strength, and alignment; and the relationship of the actor to the physical environment, to the group, and to a specific ‘other’. The result is an instinctual, unpredictable, and undeniable presence.

Every actor has the potential to develop these instincts, skills, and presence regardless of size, weight, or previous training, and this is achieved through a combination of physical and mental preparation.

Michael Doonan holds an M.F.A. in Acting from UC Irvine, where he now teaches Contact Improvisation with Annie Loui, a heralding force in this work. Michael has studied with international theatre artists at the Grotowski Institute in Poland and also with the Moscow Art Theatre and Harvard/ A.R.T. in Cambridge, MA.

Join us for a weekly CI Jam, with a brief facilitated beginning lab (optional) at the ARC in Pasadena!

Shel Rasch, Jill Cooper, and Stefanie Nugent will take turns guiding an optional, warm-up or skill-based lab followed by open space for playful exploration of the form.

Welcome!

Entrance to ARC Pasadena and parking is behind the facility.

ARC is a six-block walk from the Metro Gold Line-Lake Avenue stop.

The closest cross street is Michigan Avenue.

Contact Improvisation class at 7pm, taught by Ron Estes, Jess Humphrey, or Leslie Seiters. Occasional guest teachers.

Jam follows from 8pm till 10pm

Small, but very dedicated community. Almost always, Kris Apple takes class and then does amazing things with his violin to support the jam.

DanceJam is a by-product of the expressive arts movement that began in the early '70s along with the post-modern and contact improvisation dance movements. In San Diego County, our community has been coming together in the dance for over thirty-five years. We meet three times a week – on Friday nights in North Park, and on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights in Encinitas.

20 years in SF: International faculty teach the SF CI Series every Tuesday followed by 3-hour Jam, Produced by Humilityswim Dance Media. Space is wheelchair accessible, easy to reach by public transit (BART and MUNI). Website posts each month’s class teacher and any holiday and special event closures. Contact

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presents
Contact IMPROV Jam

Hosted by Nhan Ho
When: Once a MONTH,
Dates: October 17th 2012, November 21st 2012, December 12th 2012,
Upcoming Months: TBA
Times: 8-10pm (8-9pm Class, 9-10pm Jam)
Where: SJSU’s Washington Square Hall 204
FREE!!!!

This Jam Session is an opportunity for dancers, musicians, and other artists to collaborate in an open space. There are no rules or structure for the evening. Just enjoy the process or be an audience. This venue was created to provide a space for artists who want to explore the endless possibilities of improv and contact improv. Feel free come and go as you wish. All ages and levels are welcome. Live accompanists and other artists is highly appreciated for the contribution of the evening. We hope to continue this Jam as an ongoing event monthly and that you will join us whenever you can. Thank you.

It’s Summer!! Please join us for Contact Improv in the fresh air and wide open grassy space surrounded by the beauty of the sky and the trees, while the weather permits. All levels welcome.

When you come~
-Be free of strong perfumes, essential oils, body odors…
- Wear clothing you can move in freely, without buttons or hardware that may scratch a partner.
-Kneepads, optional but recommended. To purchase:
http://www.contactquarterly.com/kp/kp.html

The LA contact jam is every Sunday evening in Santa Monica. We have a short opening circle around 6:30pm and a closing circle at 9:00pm, but you may arrive and leave at any time.

Once a month, we have a "Be or Bring a Beginner Jam," where the first hour is a contact class open to all levels. However, you are welcome to come and start jamming right away if you prefer.

Open to all levels. Live music often

Twice Monthly improvisational dance sessions. See website for schedule updates and location.

A weekly Lab/Jam happening every Sunday. The Boulder Contact Lab is a place for ongoing personal exploration and deepening through the form of Contact Improvisation.

Website: Bouldercontactlab.com
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Level 1 Thursdays 6-7:30 @ Boulder Circus Center with Alicia Grayson
Level 2 Tuesdays 6-7:30 @ Boulder Circus Center with Alicia Grayson
Level 3 Thursdays 7:45-9:15 @ Studio Be with Joe Stoller

WHEN: First Friday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm
WHERE: Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St, Boulder, CO 80301 USA

Cost: $8-12, sliding scale
Website: www.sharingweight.com/jams/first-friday-jam
Info: jams(at)sharingweight.com, gretchen(at)gretchenspiro.com, scott(at)rodwinarch.com

WHEN: Third Friday of every month, 7:30-10:30pm
WHERE: Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St, Boulder CO

Cost: $8-12, sliding scale
Website: www.sharingweight.com/jams/third-friday-jam
Info: jams(at)sharingweight.com

2013 Moab workshop and Jam (17th annual)

An amazing dance experience-creativity, community, focused dancing, spectacular nature…

We will have details for the 2013 Moab Workshop & Jam soon!

www.moabjam.com

A friendly and intent weekly jam in the lovely parish hall of St. James and St. Monica Church on Capitol Hill, 3/4 mile from both the Union Station and Eastern Market metro stations.

Venue changes are fairly rare, but when it happens (and we have warning), we post info on the website – you can check there for current info.

NOTE that the dc-ci email address below is our dc mailing list. You can reach ken directly at ken.manheimer@gmail.com .

Assorted jams and classes from early January through late May at Peter Dunn’s Siesta Key house and at Rising Tide International center. Sometimes also from October through December. You can visit contactimprovfl.org to get on our email list or to get more information. It's hard to keep the times up to date on the site, though, since they change, so don't go by times on the site – be sure to email or call the number below to check.

Summer 2013:

We have a weekly jam on Wednesdays in June and July. Warm up from 7-7:15, jam until 8:30PM. Join us!

There is free parking across the street and a small deck out behind the studio!

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

Come participate in a a gentle warm up and short intro to “Contact Improvisation Dance”. Those who would like to learn more can work on some skills and otherwise we will move into an open jam ‘round robin’ format.

Fairly regular Sunday class/jam at the Living Yoga Center in downtown Urbana, IL. 11:30am to 2:30pm. $5 donation (or what you can afford). We keep our Facebook Page/Group updated, so be sure to check it out (and "Like us!).

open to all.

Open Contact Jam starting with a few short warm ups to help communicated some basic principles and fundamentals.
All are encouraged to attend and welcomed.

Facilitated by Carl Rudman, these Jams provide an opportunity to learn and practice this spontaneously playful dance form in a welcoming and informal setting, which is always open to beginners and requires no particular degree of skill, confidence or experience. Come dance with us!

Newcomers always welcome, there is plenty of help if you need it. Come move with us!!

Regrettably, the Thursday evening jam is no longer happening

Dancing weekly from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sometimes the event is a jam, with a led warm-up, sometimes it's a more structured class… This is a year-round event (with a/c in the summer!) held at the Arlington Center. Check out their website for directions and weather cancellations.

The Boston area's longest-running jam, open to all dancers.
We generally have an opening circle and led warm-up, with occasional structures a a monthly focus jam. Come dance and play; be a part of our community! The current team of facilitators includes: Gene Broadway, Neige Christenson, Patrick Crowley, Martin Keogh and Dey Summer.

Ongoing class to explore falling, releasing, centering, redirecting engergy and flying. Working with the foundation of Feldenkrais movement and creating a duet form called Martial IMprovisation.

We develop skills in contact improvisation while finding the freedom in the form. Support, alignment, leading/following, upside down work, lightness, moving without manipulation, vision exploration, sound, solo, duet, trios, and different improvisational scores are some of our investigations. We span the subtle and the large. The objectives are learning through the movement, letting the body live in its natural state, and of course, fun!

Please email or call with any questions.

Open jam; new people always welcome and will be given a lesson (or several!) by experienced dancers. Please check the blog for location as once a month or so we meet at the Phoenix Center on Main Street.

Open jam. Beginners welcome and will be given guidance.

Open jam. Beginners always welcome and will be given help by experienced dancers.

Classes taught by HIJACK (Arwen Wilder & Kristin Van Loon) at Zenon Dance Company & School.

Come fly, ride, trip, laugh, rest, watch, swing, sway, swig water, and sweat. The emphasis is on community and the joyful connections we share through dancing. All ages, abilities, and experiences are welcome to participate.

Drag In Friday Evening—-Bounce Out Friday Night!

DANCE IMPROV, LIVE! since 1985

Live music and refreshments
All Saints Church, Princeton NJ
For information: www.danceimprov.com or 609-924-3767
For directions: http://www.allsaint.org/directions.html

Dance Improv, Live evening has a beginning, middle, and end. Generally, the opening gives meaning to the rest, so please come early to enjoy it the best.

A jam for all different contact improvisation experience and movement experience. For now there will be a “class” for the first hour or so.

Weekly jam held in Ithaca, NY at the Ahimsa Yoga Center, located at 215 North Cayuga Street in the Dewitt Mall, directly opposite the entrance to Moosewood Restaurant. Use the exterior door facing the parking lot. Beginners are always welcome, bring a friend!

A seasonal event for performers, dancers, sketch artists and musicians to jam, improvise, collaborate and get to know one another!

This is a unique opportunity to explore the combination of visual, motion-based and audio arts. As host, Green Space hopes to provide a relaxed environment for spontaneous, free expression and improvisation between the different forms while encouraging synergy amongst artists.

These sessions are open to artists, dancers, musicians and viewers alike.

$5 at the door

Friday, October 21st 2011 7:00-10:00 pm – Pumpkin Cheesecake

Friday, February 17th 2011 7:00-10:00 pm – Kind Actions at Random

Friday, May 11th 2012 7:00-10:00 pm – Birthday Party! / Everything Yellow!

Friday, July 13th 2012 7:00-10:00 pm – Fool’s Paradise

For each event we are including a theme based on different, unique celebrations that occur on that particular date. The theme will give a focus to the improvisation and sketches. Interpret them as you like!

(Themes subject to change. Stay tuned!)

Also. Artists should bring simple materials: non-messy, acoustic, easy to carry, etc.

Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
These weekly classes are open to people of all levels of movement experience, and are informed by the individual teaching artists. Teaching artists change every month so see www.movementresearch.org for details.

2nd and 4th Sundays at Eden’s Expressway

No Underscore June 23 at Eden’s – see Global Underscore instead

The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith and practiced worldwide. The form includes contact improvisation and allows for a full spectrum of physical forms and changing states, often including periods of quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing. The Underscore’s undirected practice affords simultaneously a framework for research, a forum for play, and an opportunity to experience collective improvised composition. Open to all, familiarity with CI and the Underscore suggested. To familiarize new participants, Underscore NYC offers “talk throughs” to introduce the language, glyphs and structures of the Underscore. Stay from start to finish.

The Open Movement Jam consistently draws 30 to 40 contact and non-contact movement improvisers and dance-friendly musicians, meeting absolutely all Monday evenings at the Greenwich House Nursery in the center of Greenwich Village, NYC. We are open to all sorts of movers — including those who may be trained in or trying out various dance forms, contact improv, theater, martial arts, yoga and other styles — and welcome participants with all sorts of physical capabilities. We continue to mix many out-of-town visitors and other newcomers with semi-regulars and regular participants, meeting in this enormous, beautiful space.

The jam and its predecessors have 40 years of continuous participation:
> Carrier Pigeon events of the 1960s (conceived by Kenneth King, still the most accomplished and supportive improviser around)
> Robert Wilson School of Byrds of the 1970s (from which more than a dozen of the collaborators still participate, including the great Christopher K.)
> Open Movement at PS 122 from the 1970s-90s (founded by Charles Dennis, who regularly contributes his creative energy and ideas) and
> The Jam at Judson Church 1999-2001 (founded by Bill Jacobson, who brought the jam to the center of the Village and participates whenever in town.)
> Open Movement Jam at the Children’s Aid Society 2001-2011.

Thank you to all who bring the wonderful energy that makes this event.

Weekly Contact Improvisation Jam from 1:30-4:30. Come anytime. Eden's Expressway, 537 Broadway (Between Prince & Spring) 4th floor, $5. All levels welcome.

All movers and shakers are cordially invited to dance to the sounds of the acoustic improv musicians at the Open Music Circle, now six years old! We meet regularly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. There is no structured agenda and no director. The musicians sit in a circle or semi-circle and start with silence. Then someone begins to play or sing or move. Then we watch, listen to each other and, when we want, begin to play, vocalize or move accordingly, and so it goes. Finally we end the evening with silence.

To attend, first sign up for free on www.meetup.com and then join the Circle at www.meetup.com/openmusiccircle and finally rsvp there for the particular gathering you wish to attend. For additional informat0on email openmusiccircle@earthlink.net.

There are usually one or two jams a month in Rochester, some at the Physikos Movement Studio, and some on the University of Rochester campus. All are welcome to attend!

is on hiatus at this time, but if you would like to call me, I might be able to gather a group of people for dancing while you are in town. Let me know: 1 518 833 1340. Sue

A weekly jam, mostly without music, occasionally with, sometimes with a class to start the jam.

City Arts, the Informall Theater Company and Shape Shifters are teaming up to host Contact Improv Jams on the first and third Saturday, twice a month from 1-2:30 pm. Jams will take place at the City Arts Dance Studio 317 in the Cultural Building at 200 N Davie St, downtown Greensboro. Please Call 336-549-7431 or E-mail Todd.Fisher25@gmail.com or follow us www.facebook.com/GreensboroContactJam. These Jams are Free and open to the public no matter what your skill level or experience. Donations will be accepted to help bring in guest Teachers.

2013 Jam Dates So far (Subject to change and whimsy…)

2/16
3/2
3/16
4/6
4/20
5/4
5/25

“Contact Improv is a movement form where dancers move to follow the play of touch. Gravity and floor are constant partners. Human touch unites the forces that act upon the body with the sensations they produce within the body.”- Steve Paxton

In Warner Main Space on the Oberlin College Campus. This is the room where Magnesium happened with Steve Paxton in 1972. Some call it the birthplace of Contact Improv.

Contact Improv Jam!
begins with guided warm up. beginners welcome. coaching free for the asking.

An evening of contact improv, play, relaxation and community. We come together to explore the worlds of touch, deep listening, intuitive expression and conscious connection. The studio is ours for the entire evening. We dance as long as we like and go home in sweet exhaustion.

1st Saturday Womens Dance Jam at Euphoria Studios, 7-9 PM, 1st Saturday of every month. Join with other fabulous women for a 2-hour ecstatic/contact/freeform dance party on the lovely wooden floor at Euphoria. Experience the freedom of moving with other women in a supportive, open and peaceful space. Admission $8-10 sliding fee scale. Euphoria Studios is located at 1235 SE Division. More info at www.womensdancejam.com

An open, co-created jam space for contact improvising. Live music always welcome! Instruction available on request.

All are welcome to this weekly jam that’s been running for over 8 years. We have fantastic live music on the 1st and 3rd tuesdays and ambient play-sets on the other nights. Instruction available for beginners.

Sundays 12:30-2:30pm @ Studio 34

All levels welcome!

Chris Aiken ~ Myra Bazell ~ Adams Berzins ~ Nicole Bindler ~ Nichole Canuso ~ Angie Hauser ~ Curt Haworth ~ Greg Holt ~ Sara Narva ~ Marion Ramirez ~ Merian Soto ~ Leah Stein ~ Jung Woong + more teachers tba.

Open jam every Thursday evening. All levels welcome!

Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ContactImprovProv/ for more information.

Sunday Move is a place to stretch, dance, play, relax, and energize. Our music ranges from Afrobeat and Funk to Electronica and Blues – all danceable, creative, and fun. Move offers a space for dance and expressive movement, open to people of all ages and abilities. With ambient lighting, great sound, polished wood floors, and ample space, dancing at Move is great way to start the week.

A co-improvisation of movers and musicians. Percussion, horns, keys, electronics, contact improvisation, boogying, ensemble movement, and self-expression, centered around the value of listening.

Open jam on the great lawn.

All level class using imagery and Feldenkrais. We are very friendly and happy to have beginners join. I emphasize safety, both physical and emotional, as a way to get to deeply rewarding dancing. The space is excellent, nice lighting, good floor, and even off street parking.

The last Wednesday of every month. Newbies and experienced Contacters are welcome. There is a short, casual class to start, and then lots of time for jamming!

Weekly Contact Jams – Warm-up and or skill building exercises offered depending on the desire of the group.

details and location on the website – check there for last minute changes.

Contact improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Brad Stoller, a master teacher and Contact Improvisation dancer for over 30 years, creates an environment of curiosity, playfulness and enthusiasm for this weekly exploration on the ever changing dance!

Contact improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Weekly meetings of practitioners that take place world-wide are called “jams,” dancers come together to spontaneously explore forms and ideas, with some group agreement about structure and duration of the exploration. The dance vocabulary is not closed, so all who practice the form contribute to the constant expansion and greater understanding of the dance form’s vocabulary, which is exchanged and taught among practitioners world-wide. While Contact dancers usually stay touching or in physical contact for much of a dance, it can occur that partners never touch yet there is a clear “listening” and energetic connection/intention that creates the “contact” of their shared dance.

We are now having weekly contact improvisation jams and classes with Brad Stoller in Charlottesville, VA! Please share: Beginning January 31 – Tuesday 7:15 pm Contact Jam. On-going right now and every week – Thursday 6:45 pm Contact Class with Brad, Sunday 3:30 pm Contact Class with Brad. To hold a spot: http://www.divineplaycharlottesville.com/

Cancelled indefinitely
We dance weekly at the VCU Dance Center.

The Contact Improvisation Sunday jam is an open event, welcoming everyone. It typically includes people across a broad range of experience. It’s not a class, but usually includes people happy to explore at whatever level, discuss questions, and if asked, provide guidance. If you’re willing to explore in order to find your way, the jam is a great opportunity to practice and enjoy contact improvisation.

2 jams per week:
Wednesday – open jam. 7:30-9:30pm. Main Street Yoga, 1882 E. Main St. 53704 $5-7 donation.
Sunday – facilitated jam (opening circle and either led warm up, labbing or class). Suggested that beginners and newcomers start here as a point of entry. 4-6pm. Jewel in the Lotus Yoga, 821 East Johnson St. 53703 $5-7 donation.

(For info on CI events in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, please visit the website http://www.glacierdancer.com)

Small dance practices happening weekly. Locations vary. Contact me for further info.

contact improvisation jam in Montevideo, Uruguay