Contact Improvisation Class + Jam | The Center SF
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Theater
Join The Center SF for a playful evening of contact improvisation. Class will be from 7:30-9pm and then will flow directly into a jam until 10:30pm. In class, we’ll explore themes of weight-sharing, counterbalancing, signaling, listening, and everything in-between. The jam that follows is an opportunity to continue researching your movement & relational curiosities that sparked from class. First-timers and experienced dancers are all very welcome! Today's class will be taught by Jo Kreiter with live jam music by Jonathan Kipp :) CI classes at The Center will be offered by a rotating mix of teachers every 2nd & 4th Wednesday evening. Check the calendar here for more contact improv across the bay area and to see who's teaching. teacher/musical artist/host bios: JO | teacher. Jo Kreiter is a San Francisco-based choreographer and site artist with a background in political science. Through dance she engages physical innovation and the political conflicts we live within. Her company, Flyaway Productions, makes dances that are off the ground, site specific and politically driven. Kreiter’s tools include community collaboration, a masterful use of place, an intersectional feminist lens and a body-based push against the constraints of gravity. Recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, and two National Dance Project Creation Grants. She has been teaching contact improvisation for nearly 30 years. JONATHAN | musical artist. Jonathan Kipp is a percussionist and accordionist based in Oakland, CA. He plays a variety of styles, and especially enjoys accompanying theater and dance. Recently he has accompanied the works of Rosemary Hannon and Miriam Wolodarsky, Juliana Frick, and Leslie Castellano. MERRICK | evening host. Merrick Jacob is a lover of movement, continuously in awe of the body and its potential for unique expression, creativity, & authentic connection. Influenced by her practices of figure skating, acroyoga, hand balancing, and contact improvisation, she guides playful movement experiences as an opportunity for deep listening, exploration, and co-creation. She is a certified acroyoga instructor with AcroRevolution & AcroYoga Montréal. Merrick studied a variety of somatic movement therapy modalities with Dynamic Embodiment & The Moving On Center: School of Participatory Arts & Somatic Research, focusing on BodyMind Centering & Laban Movement Analysis. For more contact improvisation with Merrick, she hosts every 2nd & 4th Wednesday evening at The Center SF. Say hi to her here: https://merrickjacob.com/ Want to read more about CI? Here’s a good resource to start, and please make sure to review our class agreements before attending. Looking forward to dancing & jamming together!
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