Updated: 2022-04-25 18:00 EDT
What is Contact Improvisation Dance?
Contact improvisation is a dance form that explores the physics of two or more human bodies in motion. With an emphasis on gravity, flow, spontaneity, and consensual touch, you get to stand, breathe, fly, jump, roll, and tumble with other human bodies.
To slow the spread of the COVID-19 "coronavirus" pandemic in Canada, we have cancelled our weekly Contact Improv Dance Class and Jam until further notice.
Local CI organizers are meeting to discuss how and when to re-open Contact Improvisation Dance in Ottawa along the lines of the "Safer (brave) Space" consent culture work of Michele Beaulieux.
Details are below.
To slow the spread of the COVID-19 "coronavirus" pandemic in Canada, we have cancelled our weekly Contact Improv Dance Class and Jam until at least September 2022.
Local CI organizers are meeting to discuss how and when to re-open Contact Improvisation Dance in Ottawa along the lines of the "Safer (brave) Space" consent culture work of Michele Beaulieux.
Our jam is run by volunteers and is a non-profit event. You can get involved. If you would like to be a participant in the organization of the jam, contact us for details about the Ottawa Contact Improv consensus group. For more information, send us email: Ian! Allen idallen@idallen.ca
For many other Ottawa Creative Dance/Movement/Somatic events, see the Ottawa/Gatineau Creative Dance and Movement Facebook Group. And don't forget our own Ottawa/Gatineau Contact Improvisation Dance Facebook Page.
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