dancing
teaching / performance / facilitation
upcoming:
DECEMBER 2,3,4 & 19, 20, 21, 2024 - Teaching CI Basics December Class Series at The Field Center (Bellows Falls, VT, USA)
DECEMBER 11, 2024 - Teaching Monthly CI Jam at The Field Center (Bellows Falls, VT, USA)
JANUARY 13 - 29, 2025 - Producing the January CI Week at The Field Center including Intensive with Danny Lepkoff & Sakura Shimada followed by a Jam weekend with Shira Yaziv & Jenn Nugent! (Bellows Falls, VT, USA)
JANUARY 25 - February 10, 2025 - Teaching at / co-organizing La Manzana de Paxton - 3 - part Contact Improvisation Festival on the coast of Oaxaca. Register here. (Mazunte, Mexico)
MARCH 18 - April 1, 2025 - Facilitating Contemplative Dance Practice at Contact and Flow, Festival of Contact Improvisation on Earth and Water. (Bacalar, Mexico)
APRIL 25 - 21, 2025 - Teaching / co - facilitating The Drawing Workshop with Anya Smolnikova, at the Field Center (Bellows Falls, VT, USA)
MAY11 - 24, 2025 - Teaching with Mark Young: Two-Week Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop at Leviathan Studio. Register here. (Lasqueti Island, BC, Canada)
SEPTEMBER 5 - 15, 2025 - Teaching / co - facilitating The Drawing Workshop LONG FORM with Anya Smolnikova, at the Field Center (Bellows Falls, VT, USA).
NOVEMBER 14 - 23, 2025 - Teaching with Mark Young on the East Coast!!! 10-day Contact Improvisation Intensive Workshop at Groundworks Studio. More info to come.(Gardiner, NY, USA)
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PHILOSOPHY / PERSPECTIVE / CURIOSITY (OF THE MOMENT):
Contact Improvisation is a method of embodied inquiry and a practice of physical skills, somatic intelligence, patience and peace. For me, it is also an ongoing philosophical, relational, and spiritual pursuit.
When dancing Contact Improvisation, I am in a continual cycle of asking questions. The longevity of my dance relies on the capacity of my curiosity, and my willingness to be in unknown terrain. I ask questions with my body, my attention, my relationship to weight, space, my partner(s), time…
I believe that when we are dancing Contact Improvisation, we are cultivating a state of collective communication and heightened sensitivity. To develop the state of trust needed to take risks, engage in dynamic movement, and play, we must exercise our our ability to listen and speak with our bodies and our senses. We must sharpen our reflexes and deepen our understanding of our bodies’ relationship to structure and physics. We must train mindfulness and meditation; disorientation and deep somatic awareness.
I like how focused CI practice models peaceful, playful and attentive behavior. What if life looked like this outside of the studio? What if we brought the same rigor, artistry, and focus to all the elements of our life? Can we use CI to find poetry in the mundane, to find peace within a world of war, and to learn to have fun while improvising through our lives?