Starting with an opening circle and group activation each night will take its unique course as a group improvisational space to the closing circle. The group activation may touch on technique, partner work, consent or creative improvisation practice. There is opportunity to build on the energy of the previous nights and days.
During the jam there may be periods of silence and periods of live improvised musical accompaniment from invited musicians. In these moments we invite you to also treat music as a dance partner that touches everyone in conversation. Participants with musical instruments and interest may have an opportunity to join the conversation with permission of the invited musicians. Kindly you may bring your instruments.
While the primary focus of the space is contact improvisation, solo and partnered improvisational movement of other forms is welcome when it fits in the ground rules.
Ground Rules:
- Practice Nonverbal & Verbal Consent
- Activate Deep Listening: Practice attunement to self, partner(s), and others in the space
- Observation is Welcome
- Solo Movement is Welcome
- Keep conversations and other interpersonal interactions to the peripheries
- Please be mindful of sound especially after 11:30pm as the sound here travels through the entire hotel.
“Contact Improvisation is a dance form based on the communication between two or more moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” - Nancy Stark Smith
