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Updated: 2025-05-05 04:36 EDT

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Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam

Canadian Flag   Easter Weekend 2025: April 18 – April 20
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

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Toronto hosts the annual
Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam 2025!

Bienvenue au jam annuel de l'Ontario!

Reunión Regional de Contact Improvisación de Ontario

Incontro Regionale di Contact Improvisation Ontario

What
A Contact Improvisation dance jam!
We're back live and in person for the first time since ORCJ 2019.
Who
Beginners and newcomers and all levels of dance experience welcome.
Dozens and dozens and dozens of your bestest dancing friends from all over the world!
We believe that this was, pre-pandemic, the largest contact improvisation jam in all of North America, with an attendance of over 200 people in 2016 through 2019.
Babies in arms, or children who dance and are aware of other dancers, are welcome in the dance studios with us. (This is not a space for children to run around or play with toys.) Children on the dance floors must be closely supervised at all times, which generally means be in the arms of or within close reach of their caregiver.

2025 Jam Attendance Geographic Sources: Below is an image showing the provinces and USA states from which people are coming to attend ORCJ 2025 (updated hourly). The TO location is Toronto, separate from other locations in Ontario (ON). Click on the image for a Google interactive image that allows you to hover your mouse over each segment of the ring and see actual numbers. 2025 Jam Attendance Geographic Sources

How (including Housing in Toronto)
  • Come wearing loose-fitting, non-slippery, yoga-style clothes and be prepared to dance jewelry- and scent-free in bare feet. More information on CI dress and hygiene.
  • Want to learn Contact Improvisation? Come to our Contact Improv Beginner class.
  • For all languages – we'll do our best to find volunteers who might provide translation for you.
  • For housing/billeting requests in Toronto, send an email request to ORCJhousing@contactimprov.ca and we will try to match you with a local resident.
When (including the Daily Schedule)
  • Jam starts 9am Friday, April 18 2025.
  • Jam ends 5pm Sunday, April 20 2025.
  • Doors open at 9am each day.
  • We go home at midnight on Friday and Saturday; the jam ends at 5pm on Sunday.
  • ORCJ Daily Schedule of Jams, Rooms, Events, and Classes
    • Friday: 9am to 12 midnight April 18
    • Saturday: 9am to 12 midnight April 19
    • Sunday: 9am to 5pm April 20
Where
400 Jarvis St. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (We dance in the same building as the Canadian National Ballet School, a few blocks south of Wellesley St. E.).
Full Three Day Jam Fees
  • Happy April full registrations paid online before 11:59pm Friday April 11 include an on-premises vegan lunch every day! Online registrations close at 11:59pm on April 11, after which you can pay at the door (via Interac or cash).
  • Hungry April registrations paid at the door after 11:59pm Friday April 11 are too late to order food; no lunches for you, but you still get three full days of delicious dancing with dozens and dozens of your new and old friends!
Drop-In and Partial Fees
  • Drop-in for any full day for $90 (no lunches, but you get a full day of dancing)
  • Drop-in any morning or afternoon or evening for $30 (no lunches, but you get to dance)
Online Registration is open until April 12.
Online Registration for 2025 is open until 11:59pm Friday April 11, after which online registration closes and you have to pay at the door (via Interac or cash).

There is NO registration form to fill out. Dancers in Canada can register and pay simply by sending an Interac (email) transfer of $170 (before April 12) to the ORCJ email at ontjam@contactimprov.ca. Dancers who can't pay by Interac (e.g. outside Canada), or who have any other complications, whether financial or logistical, can register by sending an email to the same address: ORCJ email and we will arrange other payment options. After April 11 online registration is closed and you have to pay at the door (via Interac or cash).

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Daily Schedule (subject to change)
ORCJ Daily Schedule of Jams, Rooms, Events, and Classes

2025 ORCJ Details

Three days of Contact Improvisation on the lovely fourth floor at 400 Jarvis St. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (We dance in the same building as the Canadian National Ballet School, a few blocks south of Wellesley St. E.). The building has multiple beautiful dance studios with huge windows and grand pianos in every room. We are especially welcoming to new people, non dancers, people of all sizes, ages, shapes, mental and physical abilities. The venue is completely wheelchair accessible. We are LGBTQ welcoming.

If you were dancing here at ORCJ during Easter weekend back in ORCJ 2019, you know exactly what to expect. ORCJ 2025 is on the same Easter weekend, in the same venue.

ORCJ Daily Schedule of Jams, Rooms, Events, and Classes

ORCJ Daily Schedule of Jams, Rooms, Events, and Classes

2025 Jam Attendance Geographic Sources

Below is an image showing the provinces and USA states from which people are coming to attend ORCJ 2025 (updated hourly). The TO location is Toronto, separate from other locations in Ontario (ON).

Click on the image for a Google interactive image that allows you to hover your mouse over each segment of the ring and see actual numbers.

2025 Jam Attendance Geographic Sources

Dress and Hygiene Guidelines for dancing CI

Ian! and Eva – photo by John Barrett

Come ready to move in contact with and close proximity to other people:

Call for community assistants and volunteers

This is your volunteer-run, community-run dance jam. Please help us make it happen. Contact: ontjam@contactimprov.ca

Help with Billeting/Housing in Toronto
Can you offer billeting/housing/floor space for our out-of-town dancers? Billets often bring their own sleeping bags and pillows (unless they arrive by air); the jam feeds them lunches; all you need to provide is a floor or sofa. Please contact us at ORCJhousing@contactimprov.ca if your living space has a floor for a CI dancer or two or three.
Help your Community CI Jam

We're organizing the 2025 Ontario Regional Contact Jam, April 18 – April 20, 2025, in Toronto.

We invite all interested and committed community contactors to join in the creation of another awesome contact dance experience.

We're looking for help with all kinds of sub-projects: flyer design, advertising and promotion, billeting, set-up and clean-up, and all kinds of stuff we haven't thought of and you have.

We'd like to invite members of the contact improv community throughout Ontario and neighbourhood to help us pull it all together. If you've got an idea of how you can contribute, please let us know. Contact one of us, and we'll get you hooked in with the group. EMail a Human: ontjam@contactimprov.ca

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