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.
