***CLASS 7:15-8:15pm***
***JAM (w/ live music) 8:15-9:30pm***
-- START TIME --
Class starts promptly at 7:15pm, so please arrive by 7pm to allow time for check-in.
-- LOCATION --
Soft Medicine: 186 N Main St. Sebastopol, CA 95472 (upstairs)
-- ENTRANCE FEE --
$20 for the whole night, whether you go to the class and/or jam.
-- FINANCIAL ACCESSIBILITY --
A discount of 50% is available for marginalized peoples, such as BIPOC and LGTBQIA+ folx and those who are experiencing financial hardship..... or pay what you can; NOTAFLOF.
-- CLASS DESCRIPTION --
Resistance and Release
Join us for a Contact Improvisation class exploring the dynamic interplay of resisting and releasing. Through guided movement scores and partner work, we'll investigate how tension and surrender shape our physical dialogue. Expect to tune into the subtleties of weight-sharing, listening through touch, and finding balance between yielding and pushing.
-- CLASS FACILITATOR --
Rose Mohan is one of the jam facilitators, and a longtime dancer and contacter. She attended Naropa University and majored in the performing arts.
-- LIVE MUSIC BIO --
Alexander Karvelas is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist drawing on over fifteen years of disciplined study of Middle Eastern and North Indian traditions. He completed his PhD in music at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he specialized in ecomusicology (the study of sound in and as environment), North Indian Classical raga, and Middle Eastern maqam. Both in his scholarship and his musicianship, Alexander seeks to weave together kindred textures, seeking points of historical, aesthetic, and ecological convergence and building musical-cultural bridges across time, place, and memory. He has recorded, performed, and collaborated extensively with multiple acoustic and electronic projects including Mah ze Tar, Nyrus, Soohan, Peace Sine, Donya Reeza, and is currently working on his first full length solo album as Dros, set to release in the winter of 2024. In all contexts Alexander strives to cultivate his art and his self as a vessel for music, memory, and movement, and the lineages of ecstatic expression that dwell and delight in these realms.
-- CLOTHING REQUEST --
* Bring 1 or 2 changes of clothes, if you are prone to sweating while dancing.
* Wear clothing that will keep your butt, genitals and nipples covered while moving in non-linear and unpredictable ways. Actually, more skin coverage is better for C.I movements.
* Don't wear strong fragrances.
* Please remove jewelry.
-- SPACE ACCESSIBILITY --
The movement space is on the 2nd floor, accessible by the stairs or via an elevator in the back of the building.
Anyone under age 18 is asked to attend with a guardian, and/or email us first to discuss.
-- STAY IN TOUCH --
Email list: bit.ly/SebastopolContactImprov
Facebook: Sebastopol Contact Improv (page, with event updates)
And, help us spread the word - invite your friends!
-- CONTACT US --
Email:
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See you on the dance floor,
Eric, João, Kandace, and Rose
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