Announcing our annual Summer Contact Improvisation Festival featuring 6 days of intensives, classes and jams exploring and training in Contact Improvisation.
Surviving Change Together: A Contact Improvisation Workshop with setGO
This workshop is built on composition, connection, and touch— where each of these elements takes center stage at different moments, supported by the others.
We intentionally complicate our teaching, allowing five voices to speak as one, mirroring the fluid and unpredictable nature of a jam setting. Here, everyone is responsible, everyone is accountable, everyone is awake. The process is thorny, tangled, and sometimes disorienting—but within that complexity lies the deepest satisfaction.
What to Expect
Each session unfolds through discussion, discovery, and dancing. Different members of SetGO will take turns facilitating, shifting perspectives and approaches to challenge how we learn and move together.
We build and dismantle physical architectures with our bodies, inviting a wide range of physical textures to do so: crumbling, colliding, unfurling, gazing, pausing, extending, retracting, pushing, pulling, and yielding. Through these actions, we refine our instincts in real time, training how we meet a moment, and make choices that serve both ourselves and the dance.
Current Inquiries
Body as Landscape – Moving beyond anatomical function into terrain and topography.
Depth of Eye Contact Beyond the Eyes – Seeing with the full body, receiving from beyond sight.
Shared Engine & Re-ignition – Finding momentum together, losing it, sparking it again.
Being at the Center of the Thing – Staying inside the storm rather than watching from the edges.
Listening into Knowability – Tuning in before knowing, trusting before naming.
Choice-Making into Ride-Taking – Decision as propulsion, surrender as navigation.
Playing the Music of Time, Space, Touch, and Weight – Tuning the dance like an instrument.
Why We Do This
Our curiosity is collective—we embolden one another to take risks, in dance and in life. Our practices are informed by the diverse communities we engage with, learning from dancers of manyall backgrounds and movement histories.
We recognize that Contact Improvisation is, at its core, political. It requires us to meet resistance with deep listening, test edges together, and trust our instincts to move through uncertainty. In a time of rapid change, these skills are more necessary than ever.
This is the work. Let’s move.
Registration options include taking the Intensive Only, Weekend Pass only, or a FULL FESTIVAL PASS with camping options available. This event is limited to 40 participants including campers.
Arrival for the Weekend Pass is Thursday at 4pm.
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