Hello fellow movers. It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I bring you news about a beloved member of our community. Julie Kane, passed away early Saturday morning from a complication with her heart. It was sudden and unexpected and I don’t have words to match the loss many of us are feeling.
To honor Julie we will dedicate the jam this week to her life. We all have different ways of remembering and appreciating our loved ones’ spirit and person. We welcome you to bring meaningful items and photos to add to a simple alter we will create in memory of Julie.
We will be dancing and exploring Contact Improvisation with the focus of honoring Julie‘s presence and contribution to our community and lives. May we lean into each other to move through and be with our grief.
This week Sequoiah Briseño will lead the warm-up into jamming.
Open to all levels of experience, the Nevada City Contact Improv Jam is a place to learn, explore, connect, create and play.
Practiced within groups of curious individuals, Contact Improvisation (CI) is a unique partner dance form in which shared points of physical contact provide the starting place for interactive movement improvisation and exploration. This dance practice explores the skills of falling, rolling, counterbalance, sharing weight, tuning into subtle sensation, and being responsive to partners and surroundings.
The warm-up gives each person a chance to delve into their practice of CI whether in building fundamental skills or gaining a more in-depth understanding of the form.
“Contact Improvisation is an honoring of every moment. There is a sweet surrendering that happens when our bodies stay faithful to what is happening now, and now... and NOW! One learns to recognize and differentiate subtle impulses in our movement choices and our partner's choices. We begin to decipher the cues that we give and receive which tell us when to lead or follow, when to go up, when to go down, where to touch, how to lift, when to slow down, and when to be still. In this form one learns to stay in integrity with each choice, never forcing, never rushing. When Body, Mind, and Spirit are united in their instinctive wisdom one finds ones-self at home in every moment expressing ones true nature.” ~ Moti Zemelman
For more information about Contact Improvisation visit:
https://contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/
To catch a glimpse of CI in action:
