Contact Improvisation Ottawa

Get on the Ottawa Contact Improv mailing list - collectivegulp@artengine.ca - to be informed of changes and cancellations.

To find Ottawa Contact Improv dance events, start by going to the MAO weblog. The blog page has MAO Monthly Calendar in the side-bar over on the right, and if you select that calendar you get a huge Google calendar with all kinds of movement arts events on it. You can search through the MAO calendar to find the Contact Improv and Contact Improvisation events (both spellings are used).

In 2010 we have these recurring events in Ottawa:

• Sunday morning/noon contact improv dance jams every two weeks
• Contact improv dance classes at various venues around town.
• Movement Space for Families - a Saturday morning movement/play space where child-friendly adults, families, and children of all ages are welcome! It's never too late to have a happy childhood!

Details are below.

Ottawa Sunday Contact Improv Jam dates (various Sunday mornings):

   Sunday September  12 and 26  2010  10h30 - 12h30
   Sunday October    17 and 31  2010  10h30 - 12h30
   Sunday November   14 and 28  2010  10h30 - 12h30
   Sunday December   12         2010  10h30 - 12h30

... and likely onward through 2011 and beyond ...

Skill level: All levels welcome, especially new and old beginners!
Cost: $5
Time: 10h30 to 12h30 various Sundays in the MAO studio (see above). A facilitated warm up starts at approximately 10h45.
Location: Movement Arts Ottawa Studio - Third Floor - 111a Rideau Street, Ottawa
For more information drop in to any session or send us email:
EMail: collectivegulp@artengine.ca
Jam Hosts: Alexis Kate Andrew and Elizabeth MacKinnon

Skills Session for newbies and perpetual beginners

Saturday, September 11, 1:00 - 3:30 PM

Movement Arts Ottawa - 111A Rideau 3rd Floor $30 (or 2 for $40)

Want to learn some moves? Refresh your style? Notice some habits and maybe plant up some new ones? We'll be teaching a skills session/lab to build our practice and our community.  Bring a friend along and get a discount...This will be a great opportunity to introduce someone to contact improvisation, or to ask questions/get feedback.

See the Movement Arts Ottawa Studio Winter 2010 schedule for other movement workshops.

We've been talking this up for awhile and have picked a date - Saturday October 2nd! (Poster PDF 201KB) We're still working out some final details, but if you are interested in helping out, here's what is needed:

• we are looking for one or two musicians to play during the day (a small fee will be offered).
• donations of food for the lunch (veggie and easy to share)
• help with set up and clean up

Please let us know if you can help! If this one goes well we'll plan another in the winter/spring... collectivegulp@artengine.ca

A play space where families and children of all ages are welcome!

Through movement and play, families will be encouraged and supported in their learning about themselves and what surrounds them, communicating, and expressing how they feel or what gets their attention or curiosity. We will explore the senses and their relationship to movement, the role of movement in our learning process, and the idea of "leading by following".

Families are children and adults, people of all ages, parents and kids, grandparents, uncles and aunts, and family friends. There can be families of one too, but it is most important that everyone enter the container "wearing" a family-frame of mind. Children under 16 years of age have to be accompanied by a responsible adult.

No previous experience with movement or dance is required; wear comfortable clothes for moving around.

Alejandro will bring the material he has studied and played with over the past few years in the areas of body-mind centering® (BMC®), contact-improvisation and authentic movement. Among the motivations for undertaking to facilitate this space-time is his ongoing training on Infant Developmental Movement Educator-BMC®, which has sown a keen interest in children's movement.

2010 September to November

Here is the info about Movement space for families for fall 2010:
The dates are: Sept 18, Oct 2 (tentative), Oct 16, Oct 30, Nov 13, and Nov 27.

Contact: Alejandro DeMaioSukic - aledemaio@gmail.com