Fundamentals in Contact Improvisation

1101 N State Street - Aikido Peace Education Center aka „the dojo“

Class: 5:30pm-7pm
Jam: 7pm-10pm

4 day class pass including the JAM is available at the door. $65
Drop-in $20 including the JAM

Teaching schedule:

March 9: Elijah Lee Smith
March 16: Elijah Lee Smith
March 23: Carmen Serber
March 30: Carmen Serber
April 6: Boots
April 13: Boots
April 20: Spring Cheng
April 27: Rajendra Serber
May 3: Rajendra Serber
May 11: Spring Cheng

We are continuing to offer Fundamentals to the Bellingham community as a collaboration.

All classes will be held in the supporting atmosphere of a beginner's mind. Each facilitator will bring their unique style, understanding, research and experimentation skills into the space. You will get a palette of different tastes and spices of the form.

We will be exploring themes of how to start and end a dance. Expanding and deepening our understanding of touch as consent-oriented skill. We'll introduce the art of weight-sharing, counterbalancing, listening. Some of us will focus on experimental anatomy and how we can enhance our introspection and sense of what is moving us in order to resource from within us as much as from the outside.

Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds.
–Ray Chung