Contact @ the Dojo — Contact Improvisation class & jam Dec 15 w/ Aaron Cantor

Name: Contact @ the Dojo — Contact Improvisation class & jam Dec 15 w/ Aaron Cantor
Start: 2025-01-05T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-05T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Aikido of Northampton

Schedule

Sun Jan 05 2025 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Aikido of Northampton | Florence, MA

CONTACT @ the DOJO
Contact Improvisation (CI) class & jam
Mixed level. Open to beginner to advanced dancers
2024–2025 Schedule
Dec 15 Aaron Cantor — The Playground at the Edge of the World
Jan 5 Patrick Crowley
Upcoming Teachers: Chisa Hidaka, Neige Christenson, Chris Aiken, Funda Gul, and others
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Dec 15, 2024: The Playground at the Edge of the World w Aaron Cantor
Discover games that awaken your inner wildness and enhance physical intelligence. Rehabilitate your animal humanity, sharpen your robust instincts, and master the art of playing life to its fullest. My interest in contact these days is similar to my interest in playgrounds when I was a child. Playgrounds are full of opportunities to fall slide, swing, spin, suspend, invert, and climb. A place to explore physics and have fun with friends. A magical place where transformational games are always occurring. A place where the known and the unknown meet.
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Patrick Crowley teaches once a month, and then once a month, he curates other teachers who hold and convey Contact Improvisation with a comprehensive depth. Contact @ the Dojo began in Oct 2021, meeting 2 Sundays a month.
Dojo comes from “Do-”, a variation of Tao/Dao (the way) and “jo” (immersive learning space).
CLASS (general description)
A broad range of Contact Improvisation will be explored — states, skills, scores/Underscore, artistic practice, life learnings.
Dancers play with movement pathways in contact with a partner — in relationship with gravity, momentum, inertia, and friction. We work with ease and natural tone in our tissues and neurology. We explore rolling, falling, and flying in CI with the safety of mats as our floor.
The slow and subtle brings us to the big and enthusiastic, and vice versa. Centering, perception, integrated body, solo/follow/lead/3rd entity, reflexes, experimentation, readiness, rigor, heart, awareness, and enlivening will all be in the mix.
JAM
The jam will be open space to play and practice — with music and possible structure/warm-up.
For those experienced and new to CI, honoring different abilities. 10–27 people. Please read Health safety agreements (www.patrickcrowley.net/health-safety). Emphasis will be given to those coming to both class & jam. Please arrive a little early.
WHAT is Contact Improvisation? https://patrickcrowley.net/whatiscontactimprovisation
WHERE: Aikido Dojo, 30 N Maple St, #14, Florence, MA 01062
(Park in parking lot to right of building. Come in entrance in parking lot. Go in and upstairs to the right.)
REGISTRATION & PAYMENT
https://patrickcrowleybodyworkdanceyogasomatics.as.me/sch...
or text 617-320-9792
Class & Jam (3:00–6:00 pm): $35–$30–$25
Just Class (3:00) or just Jam (4:30): $25–$20–$15
(sliding scale: abundant–regular–low)
If unemployed or student, please contact Patrick about further discount.
INFO & QUESTIONS: (617) 320-9792 (text/phone)
Patrick Crowley has been engaged with Contact Improvisation and dance improvisation since 1983. He has taught at numerous dance centers, festivals, and universities both nationally and internationally, including Yale University, Boston University, Argentina Contact Festival, Freiburg Festival, Earthdance, among others. He is a coordinator of the Global Underscore. He worked with Nancy Stark Smith closely until her death in 2020, and studied or performed with many prominent teachers in CI including: Andrew Harwood, Kirstie Simson, K.J. Holmes, Daniel Lepkoff, Nina Little, Alan Ptashek, and others. Patrick has a background in modern and contemporary dance, Body-Mind Centering®, bodywork, yoga, theatre (Playback Theatre, Action Theater), contemplative practices, expressive arts, and martial arts. He has performed with various dance and theatre companies, including the Underscore +/- Group, Zany Angels, Six and 1/2 Project, and Boston's Access to Theater. He was certified in bodywork by Sensei Toshiko Phipps and Nationally Certified in 1993 and also teaches Playback Theatre, Yoga, and somatics.
Photo: Gabi Revlock and Kristin Ettinger by Patrick Crowley 2024