Wednesday Jam

• 6:10-7pm class (doors open at 6 and close at 6:15)

• 7-9 pm jam (enter by 8pm)

Class: $15

Jam: $5-15 sliding scale

*Buzz: Bill Young 2F

• If you need the elevator, look up to the camera and wave
• Proof of vaccination required on first visit.
• Masks optional
• Jam Guidelines/Welcome Doc

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Bio:

Ryuta Iwashita (they/them) currently lives and improvises in Bulbancha (also colonially known as New Orleans) in the USA as a movement/performance/visual artist and educator after living in Japan for 25 years. Their artistic lexicons are rooted in dance improvisation, social justice, somatics, martial arts, child education, and ancestral work including 祖体 (SOTAI) of which Ryuta is its conceiver.

Their work and teaching move and respond to mystic juxtapositions of phenomena, systems, and galaxies, — the one between their Japanese heritage and their westernized life in the Southern US, between a day of organic farming and a night of MSG-heavy instant noodles, between their beloved’s indulge in watching TikTok and their grandfather’s indulge in eating raw chicken gizzards, and between their internal organs and their ancestors moving and pausing as stars.

Their work and teaching have been accepted by internationally renowned organizations such as Chang Theatre (Thailand), Kirishima Open Air Museum (JAPAN), Contact Improv Dance Chengdu (CHINA), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), Tulane University (LA), University of Colorado (CO), Judson Memorial Church (NY), New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center (LA), and Seattle Festival of Dance Improv (WA).

Their current interest is to know who I am in love with today.

www.iwashitaryuta.com

Host or Publisher Elise Knudson plus