Queer Affinity Contact Improvistation Jam // Every other Sunday // 9:30am-11:30am

1st + 3rd Sunday of each month: February Feb. 2nd + 16th
Contact improvisation is a form of improvised dancing involving the exploration of one's body in relationship to others by using the fundamentals of sharing weight and touch. Deep listening, consent, self awareness, and play are integral parts of this dance form that will be highlighted at each jam. Every jam will include a mini class, open space to practice the form, and introductory lessons for those interested.

This jam space is exclusively for people who identify as LGBTQAI2S. Beginners and non-dancers are welcome.

Jam sliding scale $0-10

It's a Fucking Miracle!

Feb. 4th: Tahni Holt+ Luke Wyland
Feb.11th Tahni Holt + Adrian Hutapea
Feb. 18th: Tahni Holt + Adrian Hutapea
Feb. 25th: Tahni Holt + Luke Wyland

Tuesdays February 4th, 11th, 18th + 25th/ // 6:30pm-7:45pm // FLOCK

REGISTER HERE // To get up-to-date info about class and registration get on Tahni’s e-newsletter: HERE

$15

Since December of 2022 10% of proceeds from class go to: Native American Youth and Family organization. We have donated over $1750 and counting…

Masks are optional

This class comes out of many years of movement study, curiosity and play. It weaves together my somatic leanings, movement improvisational scores, contact improv, authentic movement, contemplative dance, dance boot camp and fiercely dancing-my-ass-off-in-the-club.Original music compositions, pop-culture songs, and abstract sound weaves through each class. it is a mash up encouraging entanglement. It moves you and the class is moved by you.

Must pre-register. Let's figure out how to do this together.

MONDAY NIGHT PLAY with Tracy Broyles and sound by Adrian Hutapea

Info and sign up here.

February 10, 17, March 10, 17, 24

The series is $100, single classes are $25.

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What seeds of movement are alive, yet still, with in you. Right now?

What is waiting for the climatic conditions to emerge?

The way our energy moves echoes through our whole being and our whole life. The energy that moves our attention, thoughts, emotions, also moves our body, creativity, interactions, and dances. This urge of movement direction can be covered by the cacophony of everyday living. So, we turn our listening inward to reconnect with this urge, also called intuition.

What happens when we listen to our intuition? 

In this special Monday Night Play 5 session series we begin by slowing down to dream, and end with playfully moving into improvisation and community practice. (ie, dancing together.)

With nothing to do or figure out beforehand, you will be guided through somatic and sound meditations, balancing ample time to rest and move.

A portion of each class will take place with very dim to no lighting. As the series progresses we add more light (literally) and more dance interactions, following the light cycle in the northern hemisphere as we move towards the spring equinox.

Attendance at all classes is ideal! However drop-ins are also welcome.

LongLife Forms with Linda k. Johnson

Fridays beginning February 14th // 9:30-11:15am (door opens at 9:15am)

Drop-in; $20 (mutable if needed)

For more information - lkjdance@earthlink.net

A contemporary dance class where time and material move at the speed of the mature, injured, recovering or otherwise temporate body. Form + Somatics + Movement Material + Improvisation + Play

LongLife Forms builds on my 40 years of embodied research about the intelligent, sensitive, porous and powerful dancing body. The next iteration of my teaching practice, this intermediate-level class honors and makes space for the body we have at this moment in time - for its current weather to be a palette to be seen, worked with and expressed. Studies of yoga (Diane Wilson), Feldenkrais Method (Lila Hurwtiz), BodyMind Centering (Wendy Hambidge + many), Alexander Technique (Shelley Senter, Robyn Avalon + many), CI (Karen Nelson, Alito Alexis, Steve Paxton), real-time improvisation (Danny Lepkoff), Wild Goose qi gong (Margit Galanter), and formal dance techniques (ballet - so many, Inga Weiss/Wigman, Bebe Miller, Mary Oslund, Yvonne Rainer, Betty Jones, +++) will variously inform our approaches to practice and play.

 This class assumes contemporary, post-Judson dance experience. While not a technique class, it is a forum to use what we know after years of study and practice to play with all of our almost unnameable and innumerable sets of tools. We will practice forms, we will improvise, we will consider our anatomy, we will touch and be touched, we will be in community. We will breathe, sweat, and get a little lost in that feeling of moving with clarity and consciousness in the body that you show up with.

Earth /Sky with Tahni Holt

Saturday February 15th // 10am-11:45am (Welcome in the New Year)

$15-$30 // REGISTER HERE

Earth/Sky focuses on sensitivity practices through somatic inquiry, improvisational movement scores and Contemporary Alexander technique principles. Earth/Sky goes deep into inquires of grounding and gravitational support in one’s being. In Earth/Sky we swim into practices of embodiment where we sensitize into places we may be holding ourselves up, back, and/or in, and ask can we find movement through the cracks, can we rest into presence? Can we listen in on the dark recesses of our unconscious patterns? Can we integrate these practices in our everyday lives? Expect waves of rigorous movement exploration alongside slowed down sensorial capacity building practices. Prompts offer a starting point for exploration to facilitate new ways of moving and being. All are welcome, no prior movement experience needed.
Masks are optional.

$15-$30 (no one turned away from lack of funds)
 pre-registration required
To reserve your spot email Tahni at hello@tahniholt.com

Alignment is a Felt Sense with Emily Jones

January 26th 9:30-11:30am, February 23rd 9:30-11:30am, March 23rd 9:30-11:30am

Suggested sliding scale: $20-30 drop in for single dates. $50- 90 for the entire series. NOTALOF. Please register in advance.

REGISTER: HERE

I used this title for a class series in 2023, and I still contemplate the  title, so I’m up-cycling: old title, new material. I am thinking of alignment as a dynamic process of sensing into ourselves, being present to our environment, and cultivating capacity to shift, as needed, to attend to our own physicality, energy and emotional states. Alignment describes relationships, it is self determined, from within, rather than imposed externally. In each class I will offer theory, choreography and improvisation scores to try on. This class is inspired by the Axis Syllabus, and will include concepts from anatomy, biomechanics and physics. Movement motifs will include rolling, crawling, spiraling and traversing through space. This class is open to all levels. Please register in advanced by emailing Emily: ejones248@gmail.com. 

Graphic by Hannah Krafcik

Int/Adv Floorwork with Kenny Frechette for the Month of March

Sundays in March 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd + 30th , 3:30-5:30pm

Suggested $15-20 Reach out / show up anyway if cost is a barrier.

This class is for folks proficient in foundational aspects of floorwork who are looking to deepen and expand their practice. We’ll warm and work our way into increasingly complex forms, substantive sequences, and invigorating choreography. A great container for those looking to build strength, inhabit new pathways, research tools/techniques, and cultivate more consistent, rigorous community practice around floorwork in Portland. *Pants, long sleeves, and knee pads are encouraged.