Fall Into Contact, Vol 3
November 26 - 30, 2025
Berkeley, CA
at The Finnish Hall
Intensive with Sarah Konner (Boston), Workshops with Sara Shelton Mann (SF), Keith Hennessy (SF) & Ezra LeBank (LA). Plus Live Music, Jams, Naps & Snacks Galore!!
Limited to 36 Participants.
Register:
https://forms.gle/62KRXMh1jMq6KjBw5
Schedule:
November 26 - 30, 2025
(*open Tuesday evening jam*)
Wednesday 2pm - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm (*open evening Jam*)
Friday & Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm
Start each day with a contact improvisation workshop with one of our teachers. After a relaxing lunch, we'll have space for a nap, a stretch and a snack, followed by an afternoon workshop to bring us into open dancing (sometimes with live music).
This sweet 5-day immersion is created for contact improvisers who have been engaged in the practice/form/play for six months or more.
For more BGD info: www.badgoatdance.com/events
Summer Special (by August 15)
Regular $375
Arts Access $325*
Supporting $425
Early (by October 1 if available)
Regular $425
Arts Access $375*
Supporting $475
Late (after October 1 if available)
Regular $475
Arts Access $425*
Supporting $525
*Arts Access Discount for those needing financial support.
^Payment plans available. Deposit required to hold your place. Just ask if you need one.
**WEX is available for a limited number of participants. WEX participants receive a $100 discount from the low income price. Please note in comments at bottom if you would like to be considered for WEX.
Intensive with Sarah Konner Description:
In order to improvise we have to continually find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstances; or find new ways through the familiar. To improvise in contact: we practice listening through the skin, opening to the unknown, being close without limiting each other‘s freedom, and finding collective play. These practices are ever more needed to navigate the world we are living in. Contact improvisation, if we stay true to the proposition, asks us to find a new way through, every time, together— deepening our listening to notice more, imagine, playfully test our circumstances, and soften expectations.
In this workshop, we will improvise, dance together, and break down physical practices useful to expand possibilities in contact improvisation. Through play and experimentation we will practice functional movement (weight sharing, falling, soft collision, structures) and attend to subtlety to prepare our bodies for agile adaptability as situations become more complex. Both coordination and decision-making are essential, and it happens at the speed of the body. With a light and bright attention to the moment-to-moment now—we expand possibilities we are available to in order to both listen deeply to what is happening and take personal agency in ever fleeting moments.
I will bring readings I love to share and influence our dancing… you can too.
Sarah Konner Bio:
Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and somatic movement educator. Sarah creates dance-theater with Austin Selden and others that has been shown at performance venues, universities, and museums across the country. As a performer, Sarah has had the pleasure of working with Jeanine Durning, ChavasseDance&Performance, Heidi Henderson, Sarah Shelton Mann, Jenna Reigel, Gabrielle Revlock, Shura Baryshnikov, Megan Kendzior, Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Headlong Dance Theater, and setGo Performance. Sarah has been teaching Contact Improvisation for twelve years in NYC and beyond, co-organized CI Ground Research from 2012-2019, teaches and performs with SetGO Ensemble, and leads a yearly all-women's CI Lab retreat. Sarah is currently an Associate Professor at the Boston Conservatory, and holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College and certification in Body-Mind Centering®. www.SarahKonner.com
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