SPRING IS HERE IN DENVER!  April 10th hails the next Denver Contact Improvisation Jam! We’re very excited to bring Joe Stoller to Denver for this occasion, a jam that will fertilize your heart and bloom your feet!  ~Love, Susan

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I’m exited to be facilitating the group this month. We’ll be using awareness to play with rolling, sliding, and stepping as different ways to dynamically relate our surfaces with the floor and with other peoples’ surfaces. We’ll also be drawing on the breath to get things flowing, facilitate ease and generate integrated power. I look forward to seeing you there….

—Joe Stoller

Focus: We’ll introduce an arc of focus for each jam and thread this focus through a facilitated warm-up and then open score/dancing, followed by an informal closing harvest/check-in at the end. You are encouraged to participate in this focus, but it is always optional. Joe Stoller will lead this month’s focused theme, yet to be determined. See Joe’s bio below to get acquainted with his work and his approach. He is truly a renaissance man in the Contact Improvisation and healing arts worlds!

When: Saturday April 10th, 2010; 4–6pm  (2nd Saturday of each month)

Where: Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave., Denver, CO 80216

Contributions: $5–10

Experience: Previous contact improvisation experience helpful, but not required (see Susan for class schedule in Denver/Boulder).

For more information contact Taj Moore: taj (at) livinglaundry dot org; or 303-999-7070.

Joe Stoller discovered contact improvisation (CI) in 1998, dancing extensively with members of Touch Monkey in Portland.  Passionate about sharing what he has learned and delving into new explorations, he began teaching contact improvisation and facilitating labs the following year. In 2003 he won a Watson Fellowship, to research, perform and teach CI full time in 13 countries around the world. He has continued his work in the USA and France, where he worked with Chorescense to establish a contact improvisation dance community in Grenoble. His dancing and teaching blends with his work as a massage therapist, and extensive practice of qigong and somatic education. He believes that contact improvisation offers a profound context for somatic inquiry, nourishment, and sharing authenticity.

Living Laundry brings you contact improvisation jams every month on the 2nd Saturday.

Spring into SPRING in Denver for the next Denver Contact Improvisation Dance Jam! We’re very excited to bring Victor Warring to Denver for this occasion, a jam that will prepare you to bud and blossom in your dance!  ~Love, Susan

Focus: We’ll introduce an arc of focus for each jam and thread this focus through a facilitated warm-up and then open score/dancing, followed by an informal closing harvest/check-in at the end. You are encouraged to participate in this focus, but it is always optional. Victor Warring will lead this month’s jam with the focused theme of Deep Listening in the Dance. Victor says, “At its root, Improvisation is about listening—listening to your impulse, listening to your partner’s impulses—simultaneously creating the dance through the exquisite sensing of yourself and your partner in concert. We shall listen intently to ourselves and others, continually adding new information and new impulses and new responses into the dance.”

Music: There will be music!

When: Saturday March 13th, 2010; 4–6pm  (2nd Saturday of each month)

Where: Packing House Center for the Arts, 835 E. 50th Ave., Denver, CO 80216

Contributions: $5–10

Experience: Previous contact improvisation experience helpful, but not required (see Susan for class schedule in Denver/Boulder).

For more information contact Susan Coates at livinglaundry (at) gmail dot com or at 303-455-0852.

Victor Warring is a contact improvisation dancer in the Boulder–Denver area. He brings to his dance practice a background and love for somatic psychology, theatre/movement improvisation, performance, anthropology and a fascination for the human primate animal.

Living Laundry brings you contact improvisation dance jams every month on the 2nd Saturday.

Join us in Denver for the next Denver Contact Improvisation Dance Jam! We’re very excited to bring Alicia Grayson to Denver for this occasion, a jam not to be missed! ~Love, Susan

Focus: We’ll introduce an arc of focus for each jam and thread this focus through a facilitated warm-up and then open score/dancing. (You are encouraged to participate in this focus, but it is always optional.) Alicia Grayson will lead this month’s jam, and the focused theme will be moving from the core. Alicia states, “A clear connection to our own core helps us stay better connected to ourselves and helps create a clearer connection with our partners.” We’ll also have a very informal and brief closing harvest/check-in at the end.

Music: There will be music!

When: Saturday February 13th, 2010; 4–6pm (2nd Saturday of each month)

Where: A Living Arts Centre
(NOTE: this is a location change this month!)
2231 South Platte River Drive, Denver, CO 80223-4017, near Evans/Broadway intersection (map)

Contributions: $5–10

Experience: Previous contact improvisation dance experience helpful, but not required (see Susan for class schedule in Denver/Boulder) .

Registration: Contact Susan Coates to reserve your spot at livinglaundry (at) gmail .com or 303-455-0852.

Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing contact improvisation dance for the past 22 years. She lives in Boulder where she is a member of Tumblebones Contact Improvisation Collective, and where she teaches weekly classes in contact improvisation dance as well as yoga and pilates. She has taught contact improvisation dance as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University, and Shenandoah University; and has taught and performed in numerous international dance festivals in Europe and in the U.S. She has participated in numerous international contact improvisation teachers conferences and was one of the primary organizers for CI36, the largest international conference on contact improvisation dance, held in 2008.

Alicia has studied and collaborated with many people who have been very influential in the development of contact improvisation dance, including Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Andrew Harwood, Kirstie Simson, Chris Aiken and others. She continues to delight in exploring and discovering new depths to the form and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression.

Each month we’ll introduce an arc of focus for each jam and thread this focus through a facilitated warm-up and then open score/dancing. This focus is totally optional (choose it or choose your own!). We’ll also have a very informal and brief closing harvest/check-in at the end. There will be music.

When: Second Saturday of each month

Where: Packing House Center for the Arts — 835 E 50th Ave, Denver, Colorado (map)

Registration: Contact Susan Coates to reserve your spot at livinglaundry (at) gmail .com or 303-455-0852.

Cost: $7–10 (depending on your abundance)

Pre-requisites: Previous CI experience helpful, but not required. (Beginner classes and private sessions available. Check the class schedule here, or contact Susan Coates for details.)

Susan Coates has been teaching and performing contemporary dance and dance theater for over 10 years … more about Susan Coates »