New Year’s CI Fest

YES! Dancing over the NEW YEAR’S! 🎉
December 31 – January 3

Registration

What could be more appealing to people who want to move their bodies in relationship to others?

These four days are curated as a crossing-over into 2027—with classes, shakes, scores, and JAMS that hold the whole fest together. We’ll bring back the CI Mosh, and on New Year’s Eve you can dance ’til you drop with a LIVE BAND!

With Arunimá McNeish, Delia Brett, Elijah Lee, Eric Mulhern, Francesca Frewer, Kurt Koegel, Nita Little, Serge Gubelman, and surprise guests. (The facilitators and musicians are listed alphabetically, because we like the idea of entering this fest as a constellation rather than a hierarchy.)

The theme for the fest is: BONES THAT RESONATE — CURRENTS THAT CARRY

This theme will weave through the entire event, with each teacher bringing their own interpretation of it into their class offering. Four days of moving, listening, resonating, shaking, dancing, and being carried by the currents of a community in motion.

Let’s cross over into 2027 together. ✨

Please scroll down for the schedule. We are committed to creating a welcoming, safe-enough space while also inviting the experimental nature of a radical community process.

Explore our Gallery and enjoy a collection of moments captured between 2023 and 2026.

Please also read our Orienting Guidelines for the Jam in Bellingham.

Thank you!

Location:
Aikido Peace Education Center (the Dojo)
Masonic Hall, downtown Bellingham, WA

You can join us for ...

Thursday Dec 31 - Sunday January 3

• Full 4 Days: $200 to $450
• ONLY 🎸 🪗 New YEAR's Jam with live Band - $30

🥊 After Dec 10:

• Full 4 Days: $300 to $450

📣 Please let everybody you want to dance with know ~ share this post in email, on Facebook or wherever you are social.

🏕️ 🚗 🛏 Housing/Carpool
Upon receiving your registration/payment, you will get access to a self-serve spreadsheet to inquire about rides and housing.

🍚 🥗 🍫 🧀 Sunday farewell dinner potluck at Carmen and Rajendra's.

Schedule

Additional details below the schedule

Thursday Dec 31

9:00 🌞
10:00 🦴 Contact Improvisation with Delia Brett
1:00    Lunch
3:00 😇 Welcome activity with Carmen and Raj
3:30 *🧂Shake
4:00 Score
5:00 Evening Break
7:00 Mixer
7:30 🎸 🪗 New YEAR's Jam with live Band - dance 'til you drop

Friday Jan 1

11:00 🎏 Contact Improvisation with Kurt Koegel
2:00 Lunch
3:30 🧂Shake
4:00 Score
4:45 Evening Break
7:00 ** 🤘❤️‍🔥🤘 CI Mosh with Arunimá and Eric

Saturday Jan 2
9:00 😌 
10:00 🌊 Contact Improvisation with Francesca Frewer
1:00 Lunch
3:00  🧂Shake
3:30  Score
4:30 Talk and movement exploration with Nita Little 👽 🍓
5:30 Evening break
7:00 Quiet JAM

Sunday Jan 3
9:00 Waking Currents-JAM music by Serge
12:00 Lunch
1:30 🧂Shake
2:00 Harvest Score into JAM with Carmen
3:30 ♻ Echoes and Final round
4:00 Clean up 🛀

5:30pm *** 🍚 🥗 🍫 🧀 farewell dinner potluck at Carmen and Rajendra's 🏠.

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Sessions descriptions:

* 🧂 What is a Group Shake? A Group Shake is a durational collective somatic event. We shake, to music {most of the time}, together for a duration with the emphasis on shaking and rocking the body in various ways. It can look like dancing but we don't have to be concerned with appearance, skill or rhythm. Group and individual ecstatic and meditative states can be achieved [but may not be]. Shaking is a simple and individual task-based practice without explicit goals but also beneficial for circulation, nervous system and systemic health. Shaking takes many formats in cultures around the globe, across lifeforms, and to the subatomic level. Shaking is one of the body's natural impulses to relieve tension.

** 🤘❤️‍🔥🤘 CI Mosh: Grounding Into Chaos: through Ecstatic Mosh, we will collectively explore how we can build sovereignty by remaining open to being moved; how our exuberance is a gift; how we can cultivate a rich and resilient collective field in group dance. We will welcome the entirety of our beings: the grief with the joy, the rage with the laughter. We will thrash

*** 🍚 🥗 🍫 🧀 Farewell dinner/potluck on Sunday
We provide rice and salad. Bring your own protein, favorite dressing and other snacks to delight you and others. Some topping ideas include: avocado, chicken, tuna, feta cheese, fried tofu... chocolate, etc. 🥨 🍠 🍗 🍰 🍲 🍕 🍪 🥑