CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, Isabelle, Barbara, AnneMarie, Ian, Marcia
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
CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, Isabelle, Barbara, AnneMarie, Ian, Marcia
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. http://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/health/a-dancers-brain-develops-in-a-unique-way
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.
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.
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
McDonalds Corners: Thursday Night Dance Jam hosted by 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.
We dance barefoot or with clean indoor shoes. Bring some H2O.
Contact: Melissa Cornacchia lanarkinmotion@gmail.com
(The start time on the text part of the Ottawa Ecstatic Dance web site says the dance runs 7-9pm, but the picture and the facebook events and Kaia’s postings on the facebook all say it actually starts at 7:30pm.)
Come to the next Ecstatic Dance – Shamanic Healing 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.)
Journey through release to healing! Our bodies have intrinsic wisdom and know how to release and heal when allowed to move freely. Earthy tribal rhythms and a melodic soundscape quickly drop us in a grounded open state releasing this healing wisdom. Live drumming jam interval. Cacao available.
Aim for 7:20. Avail of the free parking in the school parking lot right opposite the hall. Bring a water bottle, but if you forget, there are cups in the kitchen you can borrow, wash and put back.
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 Yogini Kaia Nightingale for more information.
Follow the link above for future dances and confirm future dates and times with Kaia as they change. Next dances (maybe): October 4 and 18; November 1 and 15, and December 6.
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.)
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.
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-$10 is requested.
Next dance (after this one) is usually the third Friday. Contact the organizers to be sure.
For more information please contact Patricia Kerr
Feminist Twins, the OCTEVAW Social Committee, and Ottawa Dyke March Presents: Sober Dance Party (Halloween Edition)! Happening October 19th from 8:30 pm to Midnight at Happy Goat Coffee Co (Little Italy location). Most proceeds from this event support the 5th Annual Feminist Fair, which will be happening this November, and some proceeds from the Silent Auction will support Ottawa Dyke March.
First and foremost we want to apologize for prematurely cancelling the last Sober Dance Party. We were worried we were not going to break even and we weren’t at a place where we could afford to lose funds. However, we have made our team bigger and made some changes so we are really happy with this version of Sober Dance Party.
Tickets are now Pay What You Can (suggested donation of 10$ if possible) and everyone is welcomed! This is a sober dance party so Happy Goat will not be serving any alcohol - instead they will still serve their delicious coffee beverages, as well as mocktails! We do ask that for folks attending this event, to respect the space by not attending inebriated. Since Pride (and just about most events in Ottawa) involve drinking, we wanted to create a space for those who do not use substances. For some, this is a personal choice, religious belief, they are in recovery, it is a trigger, etc. There are many, many reasons. So again, out of respect for the space and those attending we do ask that if you do attend, to respect that we are creating a sober space. Of course, all other typical safe(r) space rules apply (no touching people without their consent, etc). We want this to be the most fun, sober party Ottawa has ever seen! And DJ del Pilar will be spinn ing tunes for us!
Happy Goat Coffee Co has two large gender neutral washrooms.
Volunteers are also around and will be wearing name tags if you need any help or support.
Guests can wear halloween costumes but no pressure. Completely optional. We will have a photobooth onsite and pictures will be taken for $2
For more information on this event, or on the Feminist Twins’ Feminist Fair, please contact feministtwins@gmail.com and we will gladly answer any questions you may have!
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.
If you are new to Authentic Movement, please contact Wendy Philpott to arrange a short briefing session before you arrive in the studio.
Venue: ODD Studio “B”, Second Floor, Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue
Click on the link above or contact Wendy Philpott for more information.
Experience with Authentic Movement is required to attend these events. Contact Wendy before you attend.
Come to a weekly open drop-in Contact Improv Dance Class and Jam. Hosted by Ottawa/Gatineau Contact Improv.
Some things to watch:
CI Dancers at the Ottawa CI dance jam: Ken, Kia, AnneMarie, Isabelle, Barbara, Ian, Marcia
Ottawa Contra Dance presents an Evening Contra Dance. with the Old Sod Band and Peter Simonyi.
Please note: Churchill Rec Centre is a scent-free space. Please do not wear scented products.
She Who Dares - A Heart Project - A weekend Playshop - with Diane Merpaw
I am looking for 5 brave women who have experienced sexual trauma and have done some inner work on this on some level (counselling, therapy, coaching etc). I know it can be difficult to say yes this kind of experience because you have a deep need to feel safe in the world. I promise to hold you nourishingly in a sacred container of deep love and compassion. As a survivor of sexual abuse I know how vitally important holding this container is for each and everyone of you. I am in the midst of creating a painting workshop – She Who Dares and before I take it out to the world, I would love to take it for a test drive with some beautiful , courageous and brave women just like you.
If you are interested in participating in this weekend workshop or know someone who may benefit from this experience , please hit reply this email. Yes, there would be an investment of time and money on your part. The financial investment is substantially discounted for this pilot project ( $ 150.00) .
Please note that this is not about reliving the trauma, it’s about healing and transforming your sexual story on a much deeper level. Alchemizing it with paint.
Step outside for Dance to Nature outdoor dances among the trees at Mooneys 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.
Dance with your Ottawa/Gatineau community at an Ottawa Inner Rhythm Ecstatic Dance at Surround Circle Yoga, 15 Aylmer Avenue in Ottawa. (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
This month’s Inner Rhythms ecstatic dance will be a very special event as Jesse Buck and Rebecca White Raven co-facilitate this extra special Chocolate Groovin, Samhain Celebration.
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 tea and treats. 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.
Please verify this time and venue with 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! Contact Wendy at 613-726-1375. Ottawa Sacred Dance Guild Dances are open to all; no registration required; last Sunday of every month; donations welcome. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact the organizers.)
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.
“There is a story inside of you wanting to be danced and released.” – Evangelos
Come to a 5 Rhythms Weekend Workshop Dance from Within with Evangelos Diavolitsis at the All Saints Event Space at 10 Blackburn Ave. (at Chapel) in Ottawa.This life-transforming practice is suitable for all levels of physical fitness over the age of 14. It supports whatever practice you are exploring now, or offers an excellent start to self-exploration. No previous experience is necessary.
Sacred Circle Dance will be back this fall 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 cet automne 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.
“The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.” – Gabrielle Roth
Come to a 5 Rhythms Weekend Workshop Home with Layah Jane.The body is an encyclopedia of our lived experience. Our cells hold all of our suffering and celebration. Our bones and muscles move in ways that speak the truth, even when we’re not conscious of it yet.
5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice. Each of the 5Rhythms is a quality of energy that is within us. Many of us have a dominant Rhythm or two that permeate our movements on the dance floor and through our lives. Exploring the 5Rhythms through the lens of how they are at home in us, can offer us insight into our true natures, and give us tools to move through the places where we disconnect or get stuck. As we dance Wave after Wave of the 5Rhythms, we can re-connect to the spectrum of aliveness that is available to us - beyond the mind, habit, or limitation. The dance delivers us to our most spontaneous, surrendered selves. It reminds us, returns us, and renews us. The body leads the way. The body lead us home.
All movement experience is welcome.
Events outside the local Ottawa/Gatineau/Wakefield/Lanark/CarletonPlace Region
The Falling Leaves Jam is facilitated by Jolyn Hope Arisman and Kristin Horrigan.
Autumn’s vibrancy of colors, shapes, and forms enters our bodies as we play with a range of approaches to Contact Improvisation and community.
Diversity & Inclusion Scholarships Available (more details coming soon).
For more info: https://www.earthdance.net/calendar/2018/10/falling-leaves-jam-2018
Discovering the Art of Presence:
Are you willing to expand into new parts of your body, to awaken new parts of yourself?
We shall experiment in this 5Rhythms living laboratory moving and dancing with vibrancy.
Where are your “blind spots” in relationship to your body intelligence?
Bring your curiosity, your playfulness, and a sense of wonder to this community event in Halifax!
A note from Erik: Every interaction in our lives - be it within us, between ourselves and others, or ourselves and our environment - generates the opportunity to presence ourselves in the moment. Nurturing a pathway to sensualising our feet and their relationships to our other body parts creates the context for presence. Befriending our breathing and gravity enlivens our experience of moving. Noticing this sixth sense enhances balance and focuses our ability to be present. My commitment to the participants of the workshops I facilitate promises to catalyze and inspire them to integrate the playful and pleasurable sense of developing their body intelligence into the 5Rhythms and into daily life.
5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement meditation practice created by Gabrielle Roth. It encourages connection, creativity, and expression with oneself, with others, and within community. There are no steps to follow. We show up, tune in, and move what is alive in us, as we dance a wave of the 5Rhythms (Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness). These qualities of movement mirror the way energy moves and changes in the world. No previous dance or movement experience is required!
Please pass this invitation along to anyone you feel may be interested!
Dance a Harvest and Abundance Biodanza weekend workshop. In French with English simultaneous translation. (For wheelchair and washroom accessibility information, contact the organizers.)
The fall is the harvest season where we gather fruits and vegetables, as well as love, friendship, happiness, joy, and other goodies. Actually, every single moment of our lives could reveal an abundance of something good to harvest.
Harvesting in a context of abundance gives us a good feeling, and if we let this experience lie quietly inside of us, it leads naturally to an experience of gratitude. This is a natural and spontaneous process, and the more we experience it, the easier it comes.
This Biodanza workshop is designed to facilitate reconnection to this natural process of harvesting and experiencing gratitude. Tapping into the origin of life within, and stimulating our connection with the abundance we find in our daily lives can open the door to experiencing the epiphany of connecting with the sacredness of the small beauties which surround us.
Use the above link or contact Yves Léger at (819) 565-1465 for more information.
Advanced 5Rhythms workshop One Heart with Adam Barley in Montreal.
Pre-requisite: at least 15 hours of 5Rhythms classes/workshops
There’s really only one problem — how we respond to fear. And there’s really only one solution — to love. Yet how? How do we find the courage to move through our fears, stand in the integrity of our anger, let sadness wash us totally clean? How to bring joy to a world that’s so often heartless? Where can we find the compassion in which all our wild and crazy feelings find their resting place? How do we fall in love with love, over and over again?
The 36th Annual Montréal International Contact Improv Jam takes place in a lovely renovated church building on Sherbrooke street.
Gratitude – Thanks to each one of us, all together the encounter has been fruitful and your presence, an essential.
Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa/Gatineau.
Earthdance annual New Year’s Contact Improvisation Dance 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.)
The events below happen next year.
We are announcing the opening of registration for 2019 January Workshop! Thank you for helping us spread the word by forwarding this to others who you think might be interested.
A 3-week residential workshop focused on contact improvisation and other related work: physical training, solo and group improvisation, composition, contemplative practice, observing/listening, jamming, discussion, feedback, labs, and performance studies. In solo, duet, trio, and group work; in and out of contact; in silence and with live music; we’ll move toward greater clarity and depth in our dancing and watching. Please come prepared for intensive practice (and a bit of fun!).
Intermediate level in CI required. Fill out online application form outlining your background and skill level in contact improvisation, dance, and improvisation, and your reasons for wanting to attend. All registrations must be approved by Nancy.
The workshop will meet Monday–Friday, 10 am to 5:30/6 pm in studios at Earthdance, in Plainfield, MA, (a beautiful dance retreat center located 35 minutes west of Northampton, MA, in the Berkshire Mountains), and in town at an Aikido dojo. There will be some evening and weekend activities.
http://montreal2018.touchandplay.org/
(14-17th Feb, 2019: Save the Date!)
The team of organizers of Touch&Play Montreal are excited to announce that a winter edition of our beloved event will take place. Where? In gorgeous Canadian wonderland!
Are you interested in teaching a workshop? We’d love to invite you to let your creative juices start flowing!
(14 -17 février 2019 : Réserver la date!)
Les organisateurs du Touch&Play Montréal sont heureux de vous annoncer qu’une édition d’hiver du festival aura lieu!
Est-ce que l’idée d’enseigner un atelier t’intéresse? On te propose de commencer à y réfléchir!
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.
Watch Video: Big Heart Dance Camp 2012 and then More Videos of Big Heart Dance Camp.
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.
Contact Improv Dance Jam at Earthdance – Ian! and Karen, photo and Photoshop by Moti
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.
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.
Stay tuned for information on 2019 Touch & Play 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.
Located at Camp Timber Trails in Massachusetts for 2019.
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.
Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa/Montréal.
The Burlington VT International Contact Improv Dance Jam happens in a beautiful downtown dance space: City Hall, Contois Auditorium, 149 Church St., Burlington, Vermont. All levels. Led warm-up and other surprises. (This location is wheelchair accessible.)
Click on the link above or contact Abbi Jaffe for details. Contact Ian! Allen about car pooling from Ottawa.
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.)
Once a month September through December, dance a women-only 5Rhythms Women’s Waves workshop series 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
