2023 Seattle CI Jam Update

Ongoing Sunday jam 2–4 pm at eXit SPACE | NOD Theater 1621 12th Ave Seattle WA 98122 

$10-15

18+ only

Mask optional

Please go to exitspacedance.com for more details/schedule, as occasionally something changes.

5/25/23 update: Jam every Sunday through June, then a break until September 17, when the jam will resume Sundays from 1-3 at the same location.

 

 

Jam at Fremont Abbey, 4272 Fremont Ave N

Some Wednesdays 5:30–7:30

$5–$15

Current dates: 2/1, 2/15, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 4/28, 5/3, 5/10, 5/24, 5/31, No summer jams.

 

Underscore

Saturday – February 18, March 25, April 22

6:00–8:30pm

The schedule:
6–6:15pm arrival (please arrive on time so we can begin together)
6:15pm opening circle
8:00pm closing circle
8:30pm depart

3012 NE Blakeley St, Seattle, WA 98105
STUDIO 4, upstairs
$15 ($10 low income / students)
Cash or Zelle only please

Also see this Google calendar of events maintained by Helena Zhao, who runs the Wednesday jam.

New Seattle Jam Starts Sept 18, 2022

CI CONTACT JAMS starting 9/18 !!! 

EVERY SUNDAY except 9/25 

eXit SPACE | NOD Theater 1621 12th Ave Seattle WA 98122

$10-15

18+ only

Mask optional 

Please go to exitspacedance.com for more details/schedule.

 

Seattle Contact Improv is Back! May 2022

The Seattle contact improv jam is back on most Sundays at Open Flight Studio from 5:30 to 7:30. Details at https://www.facebook.com/groups/515785141799284/posts/5427106417333774/.

 

May 30 workshop, The Opposite of Isolation: A Contact Improv Workshop. Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/2255981721225276.

June 4 – 5, 11am – 4pm
Duet Improvisation Dance Workshop with K.J. Holmes and Karen Nelson

August 7 – 14
Velocity Dance Center's Research Module (formerly Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation). Info at https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/research-module/.

2020 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. $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

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.

First Saturdays ON HIATUS

Jam Practice

Shift Movement & Healing Arts, 3517 Stone Way N. 5–7 pm, $5–$10

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

Fall Contact Improv Fundamentals Class

Christian Swenson with Lisa Lightner

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 2-4:30pm every Sunday)

Velocity’s Steward Studio (1621 12th Ave #100, Seattle, WA 98122)

6 Sundays from 12:30pm - 2pm

October 6, 13, 20, 27 and November 3, 10, 2019

Cost: $15/class or $12/class with class card

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.

FB event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/379704209603020/