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Classes and Workshops
Beginning–Intermediate Contact Improvisation
Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm $12 drop-in, or $15 and stay for the Jam
Ideal for discovering contact improvisation, brushing up skills, or getting a good warm-up.
September and October classes are taught by Ali Woolwich
This class will offer a weekly grounding in a portion of CI fundamentals--the most universally agreed vocabulary, terms, and pathways--as a jumping off place of shared listening, attention, and specificity through touch/weight/pressure. From there, through scores and Q&A we will reveal and articulate a portable framework for inquiring dancers to increase their range of movement choices and options, and more importantly, to transition from being passive students to active designers of their own continued investigation/improvisation. We will challenge ourselves to answer: mentally and physically, what prepares/makes an interesting/interested flexible dance improviser, and what would push me to be more so?
Ali Woolwich has been teaching CI since 1996, teaching in colleges and recreational settings, with professional dancers, children, gay teens, queer women and trans men, mixed classes of disabled and non-disabled dancers, and seniors. Ali's approach is influenced by 20 years of training in post-modern dance/theater, Release Techniques, yoga and massage practice. Ali has produced workshops, live performance and media through HumilitySwim in the SF Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, and New Mexico since 1999. Ali is a co-curator for WCCIF--producer of the oldest CI festival in the US--now expanding as an organization to provide year-round CI performance and training. Currently Ali is studying, presenting and experimenting with queer tango as a source for partnering innovation. For more info, see: www.humilityswim.org.
2009 Classes taught by:
Kira Kirsch
corpiliquidi.com/teaching |
January, 2009
February, 2009 |
Maria Francesca Scaroni |
March, 2009 |
Kristen Greco
carpetbagbrigade.com |
April, 2009 |
Rossana Alves |
May, 2009 |
Rajendra Serber
rjndr.net |
June, 2009 |
Ralf Jaroschinski
ralfjaroschinski.de |
July, 2009*
*no class July 7
August, 2009
*no class or jam Aug 11 & 18
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Ali Woolwich
humilityswim.org |
Sept., 2009
October, 2009 |
Jen Chien |
November, 2009
December, 2009 |
CounterPULSE Contact Improvisation Jam
Tuesdays, 8-11pm $5
San Francisco’s longest-running Contact Improvisation Jam. If you’re not familiar with Contact, please come to the class first.
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