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

1st + 3rd Sunday of each month: June 1st + 15th
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!

Tuesdays June 3rd, 10th + 17th // 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.

LongLife Forms with Linda k. Johnson

NOTE: no class June 20th-August 1st

Fridays // 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.

Dance Party Pop Jam with Kat Frey

Wednesday, April 26th 6:30-8:30pm

Sliding scale $12-$25 // Venmo: @katfrey

Register: kat@katfreya.com

Not your regular contact jam! We’ll begin our practice with a grounding movement meditation, connecting first to ourselves, our bodies, and the floor. This flow will transform into a dance party jam session -- a Sweat-It-Roll-It-Dance-It-All-Out celebration! Come for the dance vibes, stay for the sick playlist!

Things to Note: 

• This practice provides a hint more structure than a CI jam, and a hint less structure than a workshop/class. 

• You might sweat!

• You might say, Oh my gosh how did this very grounded movement meditation transform into such a hopping and bopping vibe?

• We’ll start promptly at 6:30pm with an opening circle, though you’re welcome to trickle in afterward (please be mindful of those already immersed in their movement meditation)

Earth /Sky with Tahni Holt

Tuesday June 24th 6:30pm-8:00pm

$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