Colours in Contact: Blindfold Jam & Potluck (May)

This blindfold jam offers a rare and often profoundly moving experience of connection with yourself, with others, and with the present moment. By removing sight, many participants find they access a deeper sense of listening, intimacy, and authenticity in their movement. Without visual cues, the body can soften, habitual patterns can dissolve, and moments of genuine attunement and shared presence can arise.

For some, this practice can feel deeply grounding and regulating; for others, surprisingly expansive, playful, or emotionally resonant. You’re invited to meet whatever arises with curiosity and care, knowing that this is a space where slowness, choice, and consent are central.

We’ll begin with time to arrive and settle, then move into an opening circle with guided warm-up exercises to help us land in our bodies and get a feel for moving without sight. This portion will also include a chance to check in, ask questions, and build shared clarity and comfort before we enter the jam.

From there, we’ll transition into a quiet blindfolded jam with gentle sounds in the background, offering a soft, supportive atmosphere for free exploration. You’re welcome to move solo, with others, or to rest at any point - following sensation, boundaries, and your own inner timing. The container will be held throughout by facilitators and space-holders who will remain unblindfolded, supporting safety, care, and the flow of the space. Clear safety and consent guidelines will be shared in the opening circle and will also be available silently in written form for anyone who arrives after the start.

Midway through the evening, we’ll take a pause for food and nourishment in the studio, potluck style. If you’re able, please bring something to share. We'll also take this time to celebrate May birthdays! After the break, we’ll return for a second jam block, then close with dedicated time for processing and integration - space to reflect, share (if you wish), and gently transition back into the rest of your evening.

No prior dance or contact improvisation experience is required. This practice is open to all bodies and movement backgrounds.

Schedule
• 6:15–6:45 pm: Arrivals and settling
• 6:45 pm: Opening circle and guided warm-up activities
• 7:15-8:30 pm: Full-group jam, part 1
• 8:30-9:15 pm: Break for food (potluck style, in-studio)
• 9:15-10:20 pm: Full-group jam, part 2
• 10:20-10:30 pm: Processing, integration time and closing circle
• 10:30-11 pm: Hang-out time in studio

We strongly recommend arriving on time (prior to 6:45 pm) and committing to the full experience from 6:45–11 pm, as the evening is intentionally designed to build trust and depth.

Please bring your own blindfold if you have one. Blindfolds will also be available for free at the jam. And please bring an item for the potluck, if you can.
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About the Facilitators:

Emma and Pablo co-founded Colours in Contact in 2023 with a shared vision: to build a warm, culturally diverse, beginner-friendly contact improv space in Toronto where people can move, explore, and express themselves freely.

Emma grew up dancing, spending many years in ballet before falling in love with the freedom, play, and expressive possibilities of contact improv. She’s passionate about bringing people together, creating supportive spaces, and helping movers grow in confidence and creativity.

Pablo draws on his deep Guatemalan roots that thrive in shared presense and curiosuity with any given moment along with an affection for the organic quality that raw self expression provides in any creative space. He brings a rich background in contact improv through muay thai, tai chi, yoga, partner dance, and authentic movement. His teaching is grounded in curiosity, play, and care, and presense inviting dancers to explore what movement, support, and expression can mean for them.

Together, they cultivate classes, experiences and jams that are beginner-friendly, inclusive, and rooted in the belief that everyone has a creative, expressive body waiting to be discovered.
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About Contact Improv:

Contact Improvisation (CI) is a partner/solo/group-improvised dance style that arose from collective research into weight, touch, and gravity in the early 1970s, initiated by Steve Paxton and developed through experimentation with a group of dancers including Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Curt Siddall, David Woodberry, Mary Fulkerson, Nina Martin, Karen Radler. Due to the open-ended nature of the dance, each new dancer can add to this pot of creativity. This has lead to various influences weaving in and out of the form. Some of those influences include but are not limited to Tango, Zen, Zouk, Contemporary, Ballet, Hip Hop, Qi Gong, Capoeira, Ballroom, Salsa and the list goes on. This is the beauty of CI: it can offer such an open fertile ground for exploration in expression and movement. Your voice in this dance is what will drive the creative freedom possible at Colours in Contact.

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