Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Fall/Winter 2017 Upcoming Seattle Contact Improvisation

Contact improv and related events in and near Seattle. Follow the links for more info. I add events as I find out about them, so check back.

Sundays
Weekly contact improvisation and open movement jam.
2–4:30 pm in the Founders Studio at Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Avenue on Seattle's Capitol Hill. This location/time is usually consistent, except in July each year. Rare changes are posted in the Facebook Seattle Contact Improvisation Group.

Second Saturdays
Underscore
September 9
October 14
Always the second Saturday, 3–6 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity. For more information, contact Katherine Cook at cook.katherine (at) gmail.com.

Saturdays, Aug 26 – Oct 14 
Contact Bootcamp with Jonathan Lily
2–5 pm, Velocity Dance Center
$20 drop-in / $140 full series


Sundays Starting Sept 10
New series at Velocity: CI Fundamentals (and more!):

1:30-2:50 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity Dance Center (jam to follow) $60 entire session, $15 drop in ($12 MVP)

Session One: September 10-October 15 - Aaron Swartzman
Session Two: October 29-December 3 - Katherine Cook
Session Three: January 7-February 11 - Kaitlin McCarthy
Session Four: February 25-April 1 - Tamin Totzke


Session One: Aaron Swartzman

Description: Contact Improvisation is what you make it. Make it magical!  Come participate in physical and awareness practices to grow your toolkit. Together we will work to gain the foundational skills necessary to safely take risks and grow as CI dancers (and possibly as humans).  Giving and receiving weight, falling and rising, and surrendering and instigating are some of the polarities we will work with, as well as the fierce sense of curiosity and play that make CI such a rich art form.

Bio: Fascinated by the body in motion (and at rest), Aaron has been teaching and performing dance for over 15 years, including long stints with LINGO dancetheater, Legendre Performance, and UMAMI Performance, which he co-founded with Aiko Kinoshita.  He has performed nationally and internationally, is a treinel in Capoeira Angola, a father of two, and a lover of CI.

Dec 13 – 17
Port Townsend Jam at Centrum 2017


Jan 3 – Feb 11, 2018
Dance Sensoria :: a 6-week mini school with Karen Nelson


Jan 14 – 19, 2018
The WOW of Contact 2018 @ Breitenbush Hot Springs
w/ Touchmonkey (Carolyn Stuart & Patrick Gracewood)


Visit Our Friends in Canada

September 15 – 17
October 16 – 21
Therapeutic Movement & Emotional Release Intensive
Facilitated by Stuart Phillips
Lasqueti Island Community Hall

December 29–31, January 2–4
Riding The Curves of Spacetime
Facilitated by Martin Keogh and Ray Chung
Salt Spring Island, Canada

Facebook page for Contact Improv Vancouver and British Columbia