January Troy Contact Improv jam

Name: January Troy Contact Improv jam
Start: 2025-01-19T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-19T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Dance Hub

Schedule

Sun Jan 19 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Dance Hub | Troy, NY

Greeting, friends! Here we are, in a new year. I sure am happy to share movement and time with you. All of the jams last year were amazing learning experiences for everyone.
There will be a warm up and short class; keep a look out for information. The jam is on January 19, at 6:30 pm. The door code is 8841* and the venue is Dance Hub at 403 Fulton St in Troy.
Registration link: https://www.dancehubtroy.com/registration and scroll to workshops. Paypal: [email protected] (it's $15)

What is Contact Improv? Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.
Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.
—early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s, from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979
Earthdance's Jam Guidelines
This is a lengthy document, so I'm not going to copy it here, but I encourage everyone to read it: https://www.earthdance.net/earthdance-ci-jam-guidelines/