CONTACT @ the DOJO
Contact Improvisation (CI) class & jam
Mixed level. Open to beginner to advanced dancers
2025 Schedule:
June 1: Gabi Revlock
June 1: Yielding as a Choice w/ Gabi Revlock
We will begin by mobilizing the joints, both solo and with the assistance of a partner. We will practice unrooting the feet and freeing the legs. We will conceptualize yielding as a choice, and as a gift to our partner so that we might become more suggestible, thus allowing our dances to unfurl in spontaneous and unpredictable ways. We will play with the connection between the hips of one body and the shoulders of another which offers the support to take us into flight.
Gabrielle Revlock is an internationally touring postmodern choreographer with over twenty years of experience in Contact Improvisation. She is a recipient of a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award and holds an MFA in Choreography & Performance from Smith College. While living in New York, she was on faculty at Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of movement-based forms and continues to teach regularly in NYC as well as through the School for Contemporary Dance & Though in Northampton, MA. Additional teaching engagements include CI@50, Philadelphia Dance Projects, DNE Dance Camp, Earthdance, Association Contact Improvisation, and Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival. As the creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch practice, she has been an invited speaker at the Embodiment Conference, Dance & Somatics Conference and Future of CI conference. "Therapeutic Applications of Contact Improvisation," an essay co-authored with Aaron Brandes, will be published in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation at 50 edited by Ann Cooper Albright with a release date of December 12, 2024. More at GabrielleRevlock.com
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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 (general description)
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, and friction. We work with ease and natural tone in our tissues and neurology. We explore rolling, falling, and flying in CI with the safety 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, experimentation, readiness, rigor, heart, awareness, and enlivening will all be in the mix.
JAM
The jam will be open space to play and practice — with music and possible structure/warm-up.
For those experienced and new to CI, honoring different abilities. 10–27 people. 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/sch...
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. See less
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