May 8-10, 2026

Please note that there are NO DROP-INS for individual sessions. See below for attendance options.

Registration

The Spring into Spring JAM in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Delia Brett. We are lucky to have Soleil Chappelle, Peggy Protz, Michal Lahav, Rajendra Serber and Eric Mulhern as additional facilitators. Music by Serge Gubelman and surprise guests. Optional Farewell Dinner in our home on Sunday after the JAM.

Join us to practice Contact Improvisation with the inspiration of classes, scores, labs, music and of course jamming. We are invested in creating a welcoming and safe container while also inviting the experimental nature of a radical community process.

At the Aikido Peace Education Center (the Dojo) in the Masonic Hall, downtown Bellingham, WA.

May 8 ~ Friday day workshop with Delia
May 8, 9 and 10  ~ Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday

You can join us for ...

• Friday Workshop with Delia Brett (including Friday evening) $90 to $180. 
• The Jam Weekend (Friday evening - Sunday) $100 to $300.
• Workshop and Jam Weekend $180 to $350.

🥊 After May 1st:

• Friday Workshop with Delia Brett (including Friday evening) $110 to $200. 
• The Jam Weekend (Friday evening - Sunday) $150 to $300.
• Workshop and Jam Weekend $230 to $350.

We try to keep the price low but the rent has increased so we unfortunately had to raise the price.

Sign up early! We have a limited capacity and these events sell out.

📣 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.

For schedule scroll all the way down.

Workshop with Delia Brett

One, Two, We

Listening Through the Body — Gravity, Core & the Expanding Field of Relationship

There is a way the dance happens when we stop trying to make it happen.

When we soften the bracing.
When we wait for the weight.
When we listen — not with our ears, but with fascia, fluids, bone.

This day is devoted to listening as both practice and technique.

We will explore how patience, specificity, and humility can settle a hijacked nervous system. How depth and flow arise not from effort, but from participation.

At the heart of our exploration is the deep myofascial core — not something we grip, but something we enter.

Core strength is not something we manufacture.
It is given.

It comes from the Earth’s gravitational field moving through us. Every lean is a conversation with physics. Every lift is a negotiation with mass. Every fall is an agreement.

We are not making movement.
We are participating in forces already at work.

It sounds mystical.
It is.
And it is also practical. Practicable.

It is ordinary — standing, walking, leaning, falling.

And there is a way.

One. Two. We.

We will practice listening in solo, duet, trio, and group forms, noticing how awareness shifts as the relational field expands.

The solo and duet are foundational.
When a third body enters, something reorganizes.
When the group becomes the organism, the question deepens:

How do we expand without losing ourselves?
How do we stay rooted as the field widens?
How do we send a ripple through space without touch?
How do we allow the whole experience to move us — rather than stay small, as a contracted, separate self?

We will explore:

• Being in contact even when not touching
• Widening attention without dissociating
• Shifting touch so it includes more than two bodies
• Moving from point-to-point relating into field awareness
• Letting the collective nervous system inform individual action

Trio practice — an intricate geometry of timing, weight, and spatial intelligence — has been a lifelong devotion of mine. Group improvisation asks us to trust that we are both distinct and inseparable from the whole.

Concrete Skills We Will Practice

• Waiting for the weight
• Dancing the negative space
• Micro-movements of the spine
• Vectors, currents, ripples - tracking touch with specificity
• Finding Grand Neutrality — where power and release coexist
• Expanding and condensing awareness with choice

These are physical skills.
And they are relational skills.

This intensive is also an offering of lineage and gratitude.

Much of this work has been shaped through 25 years as a core member of EDAM Dance and as a lifelong student of Peter Bingham. This class is a tribute to Peter — to the rigour, listening, and devotion to physics and presence that he gave so generously to our community and to me.

Come practice gravity.
Come practice listening.
Come practice One, Two, We.

About Delia

Delia has lived a lifetime inside improvisation.

A professional dancer for over three decades, she has created and performed work rooted in improvisation as both process and performance. She co-founded and directed the interdisciplinary dance company MACHiNENOiSY, touring internationally as a choreographer, performer and teacher, with extensive experience in trio creation and large-group improvisational structures.

Her work now bridges dance, somatics, and transformational coaching. She sees improvisation not only as art, but as a doorway into personal and collective transformation — a practice of presence that reshapes how we move, relate, and become.

Preliminary Schedule

Friday May 8
One. Two. We - Workshop with Delia Brett 🌍

10:00 Workshop
1:00  Lunch Break
2:00   Workshop

Jam Weekend
6:00  Open Space
7:00  Welcome mixer with Eric
7:30  Jam ~ music by Serge

Saturday May 9
9:00 😌 Feldenkrais inspired warm up flowing into the JAM with Peggy
12:30 Lunch
2:30 Welcome activity with Raj and Carmen
3:00 ♓︎ Holy Fundamentals Lab with Raj and ?
5:00 Evening break
6:30 Open Space
7:00 focused JAM

Sunday May 10
9:00 😌 Feldenkrais inspired warm up with Peggy
10:00 🪐 Astrology Improvisation with Soleil
12:00 Lunch
1:15 ⊙ Underscore with Michal + live musician
4:00  Closing Round with Michal and Carmen
4:30 Clean up

6pm 🍚 🥗 🍫 🧀 farewell dinner potluck at Carmen and Rajendra's 🏠.

⊙ The Underscore was developed by Nancy Stark Smith in the 90's. It is a spacious experience shared by the participants which can spark surprising kinesthetic and compositional improvisation and Contact Improvisation within this defined framework.

🍚 🥗 🍫 🧀 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. 🥨 🍠 🍗 🍰 🍲 🍕 🍪 🥑

😌 Feldenkrais® is a movement education method developed by Moshe Feldenkrais that uses gentle, mindful movement to improve awareness, coordination, and ease of action. "Feldenkrais" is a registered trademark of the Feldenkrais Guild of North America.