2018 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.
Note: On July 8 the Jam is 3:30-5:30 at
Open Flight Studio, 4205 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98145

Second Saturdays
Underscore
3–6 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity. For more information, contact Katherine Cook at cook.katherine (at) gmail.com.
April 14
May 12
June 9 
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Important schedule changes for July and August:

GLOBAL UNDERSCORE is Saturday June 23!

7am-11am

Washington Hall (upstairs)

Worldwide time-synchronized Underscores! 44 sites so far!

JULY UNDERSCORE

cancelled due to Strictly Seattle.

AUGUST UNDERSCORE

moved to coincide with the SFDI Underscore

SFDI UNDERSCORE

Friday August 3

7:30p-11p

Talk-through 5:30-6:30p

at Velocity Dance Center

 
February 25 – April 1 (Sundays)
CI Fundamentals Series IV with Tamin Totzke
1:30 pm – 2:50 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity.

Wednesdays, starting April 25
Weekly Contact Improvisation Jam at Grassroots Studio in West Seattle from 6:30–9 pm. 

April 15 – May 20 (Sundays)
CI Fundamentals Series with Mike Hodapp // Embracing Your CI Fears. 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity. $60 for six weeks or $15 drop-in.

May 5 – 6 
Seattle Contact Improv Jam at Washington Hall — classes, open jams, structured jams, one-on-ones, snacks, and Saturday dinner. $100.

More info at the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2002749866614239/. Tickets at https://scij.brownpapertickets.com/.

May 27 – July 1 (Sundays) 
CI Fundamentals Series with Scott Davis // Deepening the Basics. 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm in Kawasaki Studio at Velocity. $60 for six weeks or $15 drop-in.

July 11 – 15
Orcas Island Jam

July 29 – August 5
Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
Contact improv intensive with KJ Holmes and lots more!

August 19 – 26
Dance Camp Northwest
Fort Flagler State Park in Port Hadlock, WA

August 31 – September 3
Contact Improvisation Retreat
@ Gracewood studio in Portland, OR

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Visit Our Friends in Canada

June 18 – July 1

Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Summer Plunge 

Facebook page for Contact Improv Vancouver and British Columbia

New Year Dance Retreat with Karen Nelson

Dec 28 - Jan 1
Hanna Barn Studio, Vashon Island, Washington

What brings new energy?

The purpose of this retreat is to rest and revitalize through meditation, dancing, living and cooking together as we cross thru the dark into a new calendar year. Practices we will use include Contemplative Dance Practice, Contact Improvisation, Material for the Spine, Tuning Scores, and Embodied Life/Feldenkrais-derived guidance.

In teaching, Karen Nelson offers practices that she has passionately studied, taught, practiced and performed for over 35 years, including: 

• Material for the Spine, a movement system developed by Steve Paxton involving sensations of the skeleton, reflex, inherent spirals of human movement, perfect forms, energy extension and relationship with gravity; 
• Tuning Scores, developed by Lisa Nelson are activities based in sensation/perceptual awareness and provide tools for crafting composition within improvisation; 
• Embodied Life, a singular fusion of Feldenkrais approach, zen-style meditation and "embodied listening-speaking/focusing" developed by Russell Delman; 
• Contact Improvisation originated by Steve Paxton and others in 1972, a foundational movement technique -- a boon to any dancer or person who enjoys moving;
• Contemplative Dance Practice, Qi Gong/Shibashi, meditation.

Contact Karen with any questions about the retreat:
503-740-0523
heartgreen (at) yahoo.com
Dec 28, 6pm through Jan 1, 1pm
3 sessions per day + evening inventions

Facilities include a beautiful dance room, an upstairs dorm sleeping and eating room, a garage kitchen for cooking communal meals. Each of us will bring food and take turns cooking for the group. We will share chores for upkeep of our space.

The Island provides lovely beaches and forested walks, a health club with sauna and swimming, public bus service to and from our site, good food shops/farms, and more.

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Suggested donation:
$250 + food offerings with registration before Dec 1
$300  + food offerings with registration  after Dec 1

To register:
send a note of intention
plus a $50 deposit to
Karen Nelson, 18422 103rd Ave SW, Vashon, WA 98070
>>group size is limited to around 11<<
Full time only please.
Open to all levels of experience.
 

Dance Art Group Survey and Community Meeting

Dance Art Group is conducting a survey about the role and future of DAG and the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation.

This is your community -- we need to hear from you!

Please click here to complete this survey by June 15, 2011

DAG and SFDI have been pivotal in making Seattle the dance mecca it is today.
Your opinions and feedback are vital.

And please come to the
Dance Community Meeting
June 4, 2-4pm
Velocity, 1621 12th Ave, Seattle

Dance Art Group (DAG) fosters and promotes the study, practice and appreciation of improvisational dance in Seattle. DAG produces the annual Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation (SFDI) and other events that encourage and support innovative research and education in dance. DAG is supported by 4Culture, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and generous individual donors.

Help support DAG by making a tax-deductible donation at http://www.danceartgroup.org/donation.html.

TONYA LOCKYER / PROSPERITY FOR ALL

Dance Art Group / Movement Arts Research
Thursdays 6:15-8:15pm
Velocity Dance Center, 1621 12th Avenue, Kawasaki Studio
$15/class; series discounts; drop-ins and all experience levels welcome
Info at Dance Art Group

DAG/MAR features weekly classes in improvisation, performance, creative process and composition, contact improvisation, somatic education, New Dance techniques and other dance realms, with a different local teacher/topic each month.

October 7-28: TONYA LOCKYER / PROSPERITY FOR ALL

This workshop is about developing tools towards solo performance. Together we'll gather a set of questions, propositions and obstructions. (What if dance is simply being deeply physically engaged in the world? What if we can bring to our performance everything we are, do and know?) We'll improvise, write, experiment and develop strategies for organizing our materials. We'll look for the performance in life and the life in performance. By the time this workshop is over, you will have acquired new tools to engage deeply in your own questions and to observe the poetic systems at play in your work. Drop-ins possible but committing to the entire month is preferred.

Tonya Lockyer is a generator of performance -- solo, collaborative, improvised and otherwise -- a writer and dance artist who has worked around the world; a teacher committed to liberating students into their own direction. "I work interdisciplinarily but dance is always at stake in my work. I am committed to asking questions (personal, social, cultural...) about who we are and what it means to live in the world. I investigate how movement acts on us, and how we impact the world through our actions and presence." Tonya is on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts and holds an MFA with a focus on Live Art and Choreographic Culture since 1950.

Coming in November: Jean Hindle

Men in Dance

AGAINST THE GRAIN since 1996 ~ MEN IN DANCE

For Immediate Release
July 02, 2010

AGAINST THE GRAIN / MEN IN DANCE
8TH FESTIVAL * OCTOBER 8-10 & 15-17

(Seattle, WA) The 8th biennial Men In Dance Festival will be held on October 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17, 2010 at Broadway Performance Hall on the Seattle Central Community College Campus.

We have a great line up of choreographers for our 8th festival. We will present new, upcoming voices from Pacific Northwest Ballet, Cornish College of the Arts, and The University of Washington; as well as bring back some of our strongest choreographers from past festivals, Donald Byrd, Gérard Théorêt, Olivier Wevers, and Deborah Wolf. Please save these dates on your calendar! October 8, 9, 10 and 15, 16, 17, 2010. www.menindance.org