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. $5-$10. This location/time is usually consistent, except in July each year. Rare changes are posted in the Facebook Seattle Contact Improvisation Group.
On the last Sunday of each month, the jam has live music from Christopher Hydinger.
Questions? Contact Christian at humanjazz (at) comcast.net.
Sundays, January 19 – Febuary 23
Contact Improv Fundamentals Class
Taught by Christian Swenson
12:30pm - 2pm
Velocity Dance Center, Seward Studio
Cost:
1 drop-in class card / $18
1 drop-in class card / $18
4-class card / $60
8-class card / $112
(Class fee includes free entry to the jam that follows!)
Come
dance Contact Improvisation! Whether brand new and curious about the
form, or an old hand looking to deepen or broaden your practice, this
class is for you! You’ll leave with material to explore in the movement
jam that follows and richer sense of the principles and possibilities in
Contact Improvisation.
Taught by Christian Swenson (facilitator of the Velocity Sunday Movement Jam). Christian
has been dancing CI since the early 1980s. A veteran improviser of
many styles, he brings a heightened sense of play to this practice. In
these classes we will explore weight sharing, muscle tone, momentum,
varieties of touch, controlled falling, lifting and being lifted and
nurturing a healthy sense of trust.
Second Saturdays
Underscore
2–5 pm (usually) in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity. $5-$15
A long-form improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith and practiced in much of the world. For those with previous experience with the Underscore or who have attended a talk through.
For more information about the Underscore, contact Christian at humanjazz (at) comcast.net.
Saturday, February 15 and 22
Karen Nelson is teaching two different workshops on Vashon Island. Click here for information.
For CI around the world: Global Contact Improvisation Calendar
