Let’s Dance Ian!!
The best way to read this message is using the Newsletter Web Version that is updated mid-week: http://contactimprov.ca/on/ottawa/news.html Click on your favourite events in the Table of Contents below or use the web version above. (Outlook/Evolution email users – sorry, clicking below doesn’t work; use the web version.) – Ian! D. Allen
Dancers who pursue graceful movement must practice being aware of their bodies and being aware of wordless communication. These skills are particularly important today, when we spend so much time sitting and in virtual realities. Our way of life has taken us further from our own physical experiences and the understanding of the wordless emotional messages of others. For example, contact improvisation makes the dancers listen attentively to the body of their partner. Touch is known to reduce pain, fear and anxiety. – Hanna Poikonen
CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, Isabelle, Barbara, AnneMarie, Ian, Marcia
Events in the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
Events that recur weekly or monthly show only the nearest upcoming event or two. Follow the link for future events.
Come to a weekly open drop-in Contact Improv Dance Class and Jam. Hosted by Ottawa/Gatineau Contact Improv. Also on the facebook!
Some things to watch:
CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, AnneMarie, Isabelle, Barbara, Ian, Marcia
Eric Mandala is back from tour down south early this year so don’t miss this special chance to enjoy the Mandala flow vibe in the spirit of the Unity Tribe ☮️
Experience a high vibe collaborative event with Eric Mandala, Zu Zen, Rebecca White Raven & Maureen Fallis
The evening will include community connection potluck, sound healing, song singing circle, and ecstatic dance. We come together with open hearts for the healing of all beings and the celebration of life 🕉
Bring a potluck dish to share, and your own plate and cutlery :) 20$ for the space and artists
Ottawa Contra Dance presents an Evening Contra Dance with Peach Jam and June Harman.
Join us for our Saturday Evening Contra featuring local favourites Peach Jam and June Harman! June is a fantastic caller originally from Vancouver. Experienced in leading many forms of dance, June is incredibly effective at teaching dancers through clarity and her fun, lighthearted approach. We are lucky to have her living and calling in Ottawa!
Please note: The Churchill Recreation Centre is a scent-free space. Please do not wear scented products.
Step outside for a weekly Dance to Nature outdoor dances among the trees every Sunday morning at Mooney’s Bay. Express, create and surrender the dance from within! Let go of all inhibitions and come Dance to Nature! (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Alana.)
No rules, steps or choreography, only your own unique dance creation.
Exprimez, créez et libérez votre danse de l’intérieur!
Click on the link above or contact Alana O’Donnell for more information.
There is NO class with Lola on Monday, February 18, due to the Family Day holiday. See you next week!
Almonte in Motion: This 5-class series will focus on carrying forward the momentum of movement from Fall through Spring. Keeping our bodies, minds, hearts and souls limber through the colder winter months.
Each week will be fresh with an irresistible assortment of music and an invitation for your curiosity and sense of wonderment to come out & play!
Almonte In Motion is a safe container for self-expression, connection and self-exploration through free-form movement and dance. It’s led by the creativity of each individual’s own unique dance.
Contact Melissa lanarkinmotion@gmail.com
Attend weekly bilingual (English/French) drop-in Biodanza evening sessions led by Anne Marie Riel (613.316.8118).
Biodanza is a non-verbal practice for the participants. You do not need to speak either language to participate; you only need to listen.
Biodanza, meaning to dance with life, is a fusion of music, natural movement and emotion. It is a method of human development aimed at uncovering the passion, beauty, and love for ourselves, others and the world that was always there. Reconnect with the pleasure of movement and celebrate life!
Biodanza…
- increases our health and consciousness
- improves our physical and emotional well-being
- enriches the quality of our relationships
- integrates thinking, feeling and acting
- develops our potential for living full, radiant lives
Come to the next Ecstatic Dance – Freedom&Soul with your Ottawa/Gatineau Ecstatic Dance community. Dances take place twice monthly as part of Ecstatic Dance Ottawa. Venue: 41 Rosemount in Hintonburg. (This location is not wheelchair accessible.)
Ecstatic dances are a safe space container created for self expression, investigation, & exploration. Come explore the magnificent territory between your head and your feet, your breath, and your overall physical, emotional and mental body through movement. As an investigator of your psyche and heart, you will learn to search for the hidden jewel as you come into a space of discovery. Beginning and ending in circle. There is no particular yoga or dance experience necessary. Come and share your energy with other electrifying souls. Dance your joy, dance your pain; just dance and have some fun! Celebrate where you are, where you’ve been, and where you are going.
Click on the link above or contact DJ Saira Monica for more information.
Follow the link above for future dances and confirm future dates and times with the organizers as they change.
Dance with your Ottawa/Gatineau community at an Ottawa Inner Rhythm Ecstatic Dance at Surround Circle Yoga, 15 Aylmer Avenue in Ottawa. facebook event (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
Rebecca White Raven, Kevin Guerette, and Maureen Fallis are so happy to be hosting Inner Rhythm Ecstatic Dances the last Saturday of each month at Surround Circle Yoga. So grateful for with this wonderful space for us to get out of our heads and into our bodies to discover and explore our inner rhythms!
These evenings will be about community connection, open hearts, and free spirits. No drugs or alcohol please. ♥ We will meet and mingle, circle and connect, move and dance, center and tone, and end with community circle and sharing. All ages and abilities are welcome! We SO look forward to sharing exuberant joy through dance with you!
Questions? Send an email to Rebecca or find her on the facebook. For further chanting, sound healing and ecstatic dance events see http://rebeccawhiteraven.com/upcoming-events/
Click on the above links for information. Next dances (after this one): Last Saturday of each month. Contact the organizers to be sure.
Sacred Circle Dance is back in Chelsea. I am looking forward to share with you some of the dances I learned during the year. I invite you to come and join the circle each month to explore a different aspect of the vast repertory of dance and music that is part of this global dance movement.
Le cercle de danse sacrée sera de retour les dimanches après-midi à Chelsea. J’ai hâte de partager avec vous les nouvelles danses que j’ai apprises cette année. Je vous invite à vous joindre au cercle à chaque mois afin d’explorer un volet du vaste répertoire de musique et de danses de ce mouvement planétaire.
June 9-: review and summer Solstice
For more information, follow the above link or contact Diane Schreiner diane.schreiner@icloud.com
Please verify this time and venue with the organizers.
For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact the organizers.
We’re Dancing!! A free (by donation) happening 6:30 to 8:00, at Bells Corners United Church at 3955 Old Richmond Road. All are welcome; Join us! Ottawa Sacred Dance Guild Dances are open to all; no registration required; last Sunday of every month; donations welcome.
For more information call Wendy at 613-726-1375
Next dances (after this one): Last Sunday of every month. Contact the organizers to be sure.
Explore the joy and creativity of group improvised movement in a weekly drop-in class in Group Movement Improvisation on Monday evenings in New Edinburgh. All adults welcome (drop-in); no registration or experience required. Led by Lola Ryan. (This location is not wheelchair accessible.)
Movement Improvisation is exploration – you can explore what you like to do in dance and in movement. It frees you to be as daring and creative as you wish. This is not a contact improv dance class, though safe touch and elements of contact improv are usually incorporated as we improvise to music.
Lola opens each class with a specific warm-up and then focuses on a movement technique or a way to open up your movement vocabulary. It could be an exercise on vision or balance, a unique way to create shape or pattern, or the best way to connect with a partner or partners. The class always concludes with an open dance space where you are free to create your own movement experience, in solo, in duets or as an ensemble. Music courtesy of Lola!
We invite you to come and have fun on your way to learning new skills and enhancing your dancing and movement with other people. Regular drop-in class fee $25 for 2.5 hours. (Student rate available – talk to Lola.)
Click on the link above or contact Lola Ryan 613-237-0790 for more information.
Come to the bi-weekly McDonalds Corners: Thursday Night Dance Jam hosted by Melissa and the MERA Dance Collective
Express. Connect. Be.
Friends new and old meet every other week to dance, groove and jam. We do it cause music and movement fills our cup. It’s no mess, no fuss. Think of a living room party with friends!!! If you’ve got a body and desire to creatively dance, move and express, this is for you!
What makes us a collective? We’re movers and shakers of all sorts - props like hula hoops, hip scarves, sarongs, etc are welcomed. Playlists, set-up and clean-up are shared. Contribute when and how you can.
Come try it. We can’t wait to meet you! It’s a drop-in gathering.
The Ottawa Authentic Movement group meets most Saturday mornings each month at Arts Court in Ottawa. (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
Experience with Authentic Movement is required to attend these events. Contact Wendy before you attend.
Please confirm the date, time, and location with the organizers.
Every third Friday, come to the next monthly Dances of Universal Peace event at the University of Ottawa, hosted by Dances of Universal Peace Ottawa. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact the organizers.)
Love, Lover and Beloved; February Peace Dances
Circle Dances to live music. We bring the unifying traditions of spirit centered cultures to life with our song and dancing together.
Dances of Universal Peace – Monthly, participatory simple circle dances and songs drawn from the earth’s sacred traditions, such as: Jewish, Christian (Creation Spirituality, Aramaic & Gospel), Islamic Su, Buddhist, Native American, Hindu, African, Celtic, Zoroastrian, and other Universal songs of peace. All welcome. No partner required. Beginners welcome. The Dances have no performers or audience. No musical or dance experience is necessary, All dances are taught. Dress casual. Singles and couples are welcome. Live music by (leader(s)) & friends. $5-10 donation at the door.
We dance this week in Room #4004 of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 120 University Private, at the University of Ottawa.
The Dances of Universal Peace and Walking Concentrations are spiritual practice in motion. Drawing on the sacred phrases, scripture, and poetry of the many spiritual traditions of the earth, the Dances blend chant, live music and evocative movement into a living experience of unity, peace and integration. This taste of our true nature – as Universal Peace – opens to the possibility of a deep spiritual revolution within the person.
From the beginning of time, sacred movement, song and story have brought people together – at times of seasonal ceremony and celebration, as part of everyday life and life passages, in daily renewal and meditation. The Dances of Universal Peace are part of this timeless tradition of sacred movement, song and story.
Dances of Universal Peace are participatory simple circle dances and songs drawn from the earth’s sacred traditions, and other Universal songs of peace. Dress is casual. No previous experience or dance partner needed. Live music and a cappella. A donation of $5-$10 is requested.
Next dance (after this one) is usually the third Friday. Contact the organizers to be sure.
For more information please contact Patricia Kerr
5Rhythms: Full CircleFULL CIRCLE.
From seed to stem to flower to fruit to seed… Spirals of life.
As we get lost in the day-to-day details of our lives, we sometimes forget that life is not a linear process but rather a series of spiralling patterns of EXPERIENCE and RESISTANCE: in our cells, in the earth’s waters, in the seasons, in the people around us… These ENDLESS SPIRALS bring us back to beginnings where we can see things in a new light and lead us to endings where we can choose the next step.
Big or small, these circles are our journey.
Setting off on a new path, uncertain of the outcome, unaware of the dangers and delights to be encountered, yet certain that this is the way to go. Finding ourselves back where we started, looking out on a fresh beginning from a familiar place, recognizing we’ve come a long way.
5Rhythms wave map guides us as we embody those spirals of energy in each wave, again and again, till we trust that our bodies know these paths. We’ll explore the circles within circles, the waves within waves, the rhythms within rhythms, till we find ease in surrendering to the movement of our lives.
This Waves class is offered by Lynne Adams, a certified 5Rhythms© Teacher. Lynne is an actor, dancer, writer, a lover of life to the edge and the depths, heart explorer and wild soul embodied in a dance with life.
Le mouvement est clef pour incarner l’intelligence et l’intégrité de notre corps. Par l’intermédiaire de la musique, la danse, la conscience et la découverte, la pratique 5Rythmes encourage la connection avec soi-même, avec un autre et avec un groupe. Pré-requis: la curiosité. Tous sont bienvenus.
Cette vague sera offerte par Lynne Adams, enseignante certifiée des 5 Rythmes. Lynne est actrice, danseure, écrivaine, amante de la vie dans son intensité et ses profondeurs. C’est une exploratrice du coeur, une âme sauvage incarnée dans une danse avec la vie.
For more information or to register contact Melissa lanarkinmotion@gmail.com 416.559.2676
Dance the Spring Equinox as part of Seasonal Dances with Anne Pitman at the Dovercourt Recreation Centre 411 Dovercourt Ave. (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
Dance your aliveness, your life and the turning of the wheel. Dance your rhythm and the rhythm of the season. Free dance, circle dance and warm community. No dance experience necessary. All adults welcome. $10
Seasonal music, free form dance, circle dance, and warm community spirit.
Dance the Seasons of the Year – Take time out of your busy life to dance your aliveness, your life and honour the turning of the wheel. No dance experience is necessary. Dance your rhythm and the rhythm of the season. All of nature; earth, air, water and fire – everything that surrounds you, is also in you. Connect with these natural elements and find their qualities of groundedness, inspiration, flow and passion in you and in your life. Dance in the season with open arms.
Click on the links above or contact Anne Pitman for more information.
Anne usually hosts four Seasonal Dances each year. Check her web link, above.
The Summer Solstice Dance may happen in June. Contact Anne for details.
Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
Hello beautiful Touch&Play community!
The team of organizers of Touch&Play Montreal are excited to announce that a winter edition of our beloved event is happening in a gorgeous Canadian wonderland “Sur les Toits du Monde” near Montréal!
At the health center Sur les Toits du Monde, located on the highest mountain of Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, QC,you will be able to live a peaceful experience in direct connection with nature. Available to you are a salt indoor pool, sauna, SPA, fully equipped community kitchen and meditation room and inspiring library to feed your spirit.
Touch&Play Montréal Winter 2019 will be held on February 14-17th, 2019. This is a bilingual festival, held entirely in both English and French.
Les organisateurs du Touch&Play Montréal sont heureux de vous annoncer qu’une édition d’hiver du festival aura lieu!
Touch&Play is a community and conscious sexuality festival. It’s a space for exploration of participants’ comfort zones and edges. The festival is built around certain disciplines related to relationships, sexuality and movement. Inspired by: Contact Improvisation, Nonviolent Communication, Authentic Movement, Tantra, BDSM, Ritual, Somatic Consciousness, and more.
Registration for the 4th Annual Vancouver Contact Improvisation Festival is OPEN!
The 4th Annual Vancouver CI Festival offers an inspiring weekend of contact improvisation taught by local and world renowned teachers and includes a large variety of classes suitable for beginner to advanced levels, evening jam’s, workshops, Underscore and a blindfold jam.
WCCI Foundation, in partnership with the Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA), is pleased to provide a state of the art facility with outstanding dance floors and a creative inspiring environment. We will occupy two studios with a variety of activities in each throughout the weekend.
Teachers and facilitators are as follows: Rob Kitsos, Cyrus Khambatta, Alicia Grayson, Joni Cooke, Olivia Shaffer, Daelik, Anne Cooper,Delia Brett, Kat Single-Dain, Adolpho Pati, Stuart Phillips, Michal Lahav and Kayte Gillespie.
The registration fee after January 16, 2019 is $200. Registration will close two days prior to the event and payment will be CASH ONLY at the door until the event is sold out.
For more information, follow the above links or contact vancouvercifoundation@gmail.com with any questions.
Again in 2019 the annual Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam will be in Toronto, Ontario. There is a facebook event. (This location is fully wheelchair accessible.)
Three days of contact improvisation on one entire floor of Canada’s National Ballet School. Three beautiful studios with grand pianos in every room. Over 250 people to dance with – the largest contact improv dance jam in North America.
One of the key values of the ORCJ is to be welcoming and friendly – to all. We want to be the multi-day Jam of choice for first time people. We have a peer support team available to you throughout the jam – to listen, mediate, and offer emotional support to dancers in need in English and French.
Especially welcoming to new people, non dancers, people of all sizes, ages, shapes, mental and physical abilities. The venue is completely wheelchair accessible. LGBTQ welcoming.
Register early and we should have no problem finding you a local host accommodation (billet).
It’s an incredible deal, really. A whole weekend of contact improv dance jamming, several meals, a place to stay, dance workshops, etc., all for one low price!
Details are still being arranged. Click on the links above or contact An ORCJ Human Being for more information. Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa to Toronto.
It is important for us that everyone feels welcome: people who are new to dance, people with disabilities, all kinds of bodies, minds and hearts; that all gender and gender expressions are welcome, womyn and men; cis and trans; of all ages, sizes and shapes, skin colours, cultures, sub-cultures and counter-cultures; that gays, lesbian, bi, queer and straight people are welcome. Whatever your story or the story of your people, your mother tongue, you are welcome, the fullness of you is welcome, no parts left out. Whatever your mind state, whether your heart is heavy or light, troubled or clear.
If there’s a way we can better include all parts of you, please let us know; we want to know. We are perfectly imperfect beings. We are going to make mistakes, and we want to learn from them and to create a jam that welcomes you.
Big Heart number Eleven is coming! See you June 18–23 in 2019!
Big Heart Dance Camp is a multi-arts, intergenerational extended week/weekend gathering. (This location is partially wheelchair accessible.)
We are a growing community of artists, dancers, musicians, healers, helpers and lovers. Big Heart takes place annually in June at Unicamp of Ontario in Dufferin County, north of Toronto. Nurtured and infused by the spirited land, we strive for peace and joy by being together consciously and creatively.
Big Heart reaches a broad spectrum of ages. We welcome singles, couples and families to join us. Big Heart offers a wide variety of dance, music and other healing arts classes.
- See Yourself … dancing on the grass
- Hear Yourself … singing around the campfire
- Feel Yourself … sharing a meal of nourishing food and rich conversation
- Delight Yourself … watching children dance, while you sit and chat with an elder
- Express Yourself … finding new and juicy ways to move, create, play and be
- Give Yourself … the gift of living in creative, conscious community
- Be Yourself … at Big Heart Dance Camp!
We welcome you to experience embodying your full creative self in a safe, supportive and playful environment. A wide array of dance, yoga, music, and other healing arts modalities are shared through playshops and evening events. Meals are eaten in community, lovingly and mindfully prepared by our kitchen team.
Big Heart Dance Camp takes place at Unicamp, near Honeywood, Ontario. Beautiful hiking trails, forest, and a swimming pond invites you to take a dip. We invite you to join us in growing our creative, conscious community as we blossom into our 9th year!
Click on the link above or contact Big Heart Dance Camp 705-444-0550 for more information. Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa.
The annual Earthdance July 4 Contact Improv Dance Jam at the Earthdance retreat centre in western Massachusetts.
Enjoy the brilliant sunshine, grassy fields, fun, games, and dances of all kinds at this family-oriented Jam. Includes programming for young people of all ages.
Contact Improv Dance Jam at Earthdance – Ian! and Karen, photo and Photoshop by Moti
Playing with Courage, Compassion, Consent & Inclusion
BE - Be in your body… Be passionate… Be seen… Be listening… Be curious… Be courageous… Be loving… Be playful… Be trusted… Be trusting… Be resilient… Be interested in what you’re here to contribute to others… Be held and appreciated… Be yourself more than you’ve ever been…
We welcome a diverse community of dancers and somatic visionaries. This is a festival about play, vulnerability and building community with embodied, emotional, and erotic intelligence. It takes courage, compassion and consent to play truth or dare with integrity. Sharing one’s truth is an act of intimacy. Being daring is about getting outside our comfort zones. If we want something we’ve never had before, we have to do something we’ve never done before. This is a space to explore our personal, tribal, and societal desires! What can dance, somatics, tantra, kink, Contact Improvisation, and communication practices contribute to our intimacy?
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -― Albert Camus
Contact Improvisation can be an act of freedom and revelation! Let’s pull back the veil, expand our edges, investigate how our patterns and attitudes may limit us and try on new versions of ourselves. We continue to question the relationship of “chemistry & physics” in CI through movement, touch, intimacy, communication and connection to radical truth.
Touch&Play festivals have a history of exploring the edges of what CI can be while maintaining high standards of safety and consent, and are known as events in which personal and communal celebration and growth reach new levels.
We believe that major change can and does happen when we give ourselves time and space to recognize our growing edges and feel safe enough to explore and expand them with ourselves and within community. Touch&Play aims to both provide a profound space for honesty, celebration, joy, discomfort, clarity, growth, and acceptance. It also is a time where consent, choice, and self-care come first.
What happened last time? From Touch&Play 2017 at Earthdance comes this Are you ready for Liberation? video by Zahava (“Z”). At Touch&Play 2017, Zahava led an intensive dealing with The Intimate Act of Creating Performance Ritual: Exploring Kink, Gender Expression & Devotion See descriptions of all the 2017 Touch&Play workshops and descriptions of all the 2018 Touch&Play workshops.
Contact the organizers for the exact date of the Sutton Weekend.
The annual Sutton Summer Dance Jam happens near the USA border 120km south-east of Montréal in Sutton Québec.
Come for dance, pond swimming and sauna playing outdoors and night bonfire singing. Hear the roosters crow, horses gallop and frogs croak. Sleep in cabins, the big house or tent in the orchard or forest. Your summer dreams come true.
Contact the organizers for the exact date of the Festival.
Stay tuned for information on a possible August? 2019 Touch&Play Montreal in Canada.
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -― Albert Camus
Discover a new world of play and pleasure, drawing from:
and more!
Contact Improvisation can be an act of freedom and revelation! Let’s pull back the veil, expand our edges, investigate how our patterns and attitudes may limit us and try on new versions of ourselves. We continue to question the relationship of “chemistry & physics” in CI through movement, touch, intimacy, communication and connection to radical truth.
Touch&Play festivals have a history of exploring the edges of what CI can be while maintaining high standards of safety and consent, and are known as events in which personal and communal celebration and growth reach new levels.
We believe that major change can and does happen when we give ourselves time and space to recognize our growing edges and feel safe enough to explore and expand them with ourselves and within community. Touch&Play aims to both provide a profound space for honesty, celebration, joy, discomfort, clarity, growth, and acceptance. It also is a time where consent, choice, and self-care come first.
From Touch&Play 2017 at Earthdance comes this Are you ready for Liberation? video by Zahava (“Z”). At Touch&Play 2017, Zahava led an intensive dealing with The Intimate Act of Creating Performance Ritual: Exploring Kink, Gender Expression & Devotion See descriptions of all the 2017 Touch&Play workshops and descriptions of all the 2018 Touch&Play workshops.
Enjoy dance, movement, and community at the annual Dance New England Summer Dance Camp in Massachusetts in August 2019. See last year’s 2018 Camp Schedule for a sampling of what kind of workshops might take place in the 2019 camp. Child and family friendly; free child care available much of the day. (This location is only partially wheelchair accessible.)
The Burlington VT International Contact Improv Dance Jam happens in a beautiful downtown dance space: Contois Auditorium, Burlington VT City Hall, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont. All levels of CI dance experience welcome. Led warm-ups and other surprises. Burlington Annual Contact Improv Jam 2019 on the facebook (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
The events below are tentative, based on the 2018 dance jam:
Click on the link above or contact Abbi Jaffe for details. Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa.
The 37th Annual Montréal International Contact Improv Jam takes place in a lovely renovated church building on Sherbrooke street.
The ACI’s most prized event: Montreal’s Annual Contact Improv. Jam takes place usually around late November, and is jam-packed with great warm-ups & a beginner class, lots of open jamming, great food, a show and dance. Don’t miss it!!
Earthdance annual New Year’s Contact Improvisation Dance Jam
Contact the organizers for the exact date of the Jam.
As winter swirls outside, we come together on the dance floor to find new connections through Contact Improvisation, co-creating five days of magic, intimacy, warmth, and dancing celebration. Workshops, performances, bonfires, and nonstop jamming ring in the New Year with utter joy at our biggest Contact Improvisation Dance Jam of the year.
Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa/Gatineau.
(This location is partially wheelchair accessible.)
Recurring Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
Contact Arsalan Ahmad for details on what’s happening around Contact Improvisation Dance in Peterborough, Ontario. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Arsalan.)
For other Peterborough dance events, e.g. Ecstatic Dance, see Dance Your Bones
Freeing the Creative Spirit Teaching people to experience the pulsating sensual energy inside them and awakening their connection to flowing breath, rooted feet and a centered alive pelvis – reach up, root down, live in the heart center. Visit http://www.erik.iversen.ca/ or http://www.5rhythms.com/teachers/Erik+Iversen or contact Erik Iversen for more information. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Erik.)
Dance a weekly Thursday night 5Rhythms class with Lynne Adams in Montréal. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact Lynne.)
Classes are facilitated in French (with possible English translation on request): Biodanza Sherbrooke: français and Sherbrook Biodanza: English
Ian! D. Allen via idallen@idallen.ca
Contact Improv Dance Jam at Earthdance – Ian! and Eva, photo by John Barrett
