# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Contact @ the Dojo — class Mar 15 w/ Lani Nahele + JAM!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: CONTACT @ the DOJO
Contact Improvisation (CI) class & jam
Mixed level. Open to beginner & experienced dancers
3:00 pm Class. 4:30-6 pm Jam

CLASS:
3/15  Lani Nahele
4/5 Patrick Crowley
4/19 Sarah Young
5/3 Patrick Crowley
5/17 Rythea Lee
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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
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 of motion, and friction. We work with ease and natural tone in our tissues and neurology. We explore rolling, falling, and flying in CI with the freedom 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, experiments, readiness, rigor, heart, awareness, and enlivening will all be in the mix.

JAM
The jam will be open space to play and practice — with some music and possible structure/warm-up.
For those experienced and new to CI, honoring different abilities. 

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/events
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, student, or wanting to do work/exchange, please contact Patrick.

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. https://patrickcrowley.net/contact-dojo
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Florence
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Aikido of Northampton
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- **long**: -72.67244
- **full address**: Aikido of Northampton, 30 N Maple St, Florence, MA 01062-1344, United States

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- **organizer**: Patrick M. Crowley (https://allevents.in/org/patrick-m-crowley/20277512)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 15 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Aikido of Northampton, 30 N Maple St, Florence, MA 01062-1344, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Patrick M. Crowley
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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