A Delicious Combination:
Live Improvisational Music and Improvisational Movement
All are welcome. Including children who can participate
Play. Expression. Touch. Consent. Community
What I think you will find from this experience:
Platonic touch needs met.
Playfulness stoked.
New friends and deepened connections.
Freedom to just be you in your fullness.
Creative inspiration.
Missoula’s Contact Improvisation Community centers consent and attunement.
This will be touched on at the opening circle!
Children who are able to largely refrain from chatting and want to participate are welcome!
Learn more about everything that this form has to offer and that I love about it here!
Logistics:
Dates and time:
Saturdays 10:30am-12:30pm
January 3rd, with Naomi Siegel
February 7th, with Ceci Monroe
March 14th, with Bill Kautz
April 11th, TBD
May 2nd, with Matt Nord
June 6th, TBD
Location and Parking:
1042 Monroe Street (studio behind the house)
Park in the southern Greenough Parking lot:
Do NOT park right next to the house
Money Stuff
$15-$25 Sliding Scale
$15: Subsidized rate (for those who need it)
$20: Sustaining rate (this is the cost of this offering)
$25: Supporting rate (paying this rate supports those who need to pay less)
Cash is preferred!
Meet your host:
JoJo Phoenix lifting 6’5” Richard
JoJo Phoenix Frank (they/them) is based in the land of the Salish Kootenai, now known as Missoula, MT, where they facilitated weekly Contact Improvisation classes for 3 years up until 2024. They have been a devotee of CI since 2014, and are influenced by their studies with teachers from all over the world including: Martin Keogh, Leilani Weiss, Eszter Gál, Sole Medina, Paul Singh, Andrew Harwood, Karen Nelson, Sergio Palomares, Stu Phillips, Keith Hennesy, and many others.
JP's inclusive teaching approach is clear, creative, and full of juicy drops of inquiry all shaped by a decade of facilitating somatic meditation, trauma-informed movement trainings, and multiracial community dialogues on power, identity and social change.
💜 contact: JoJo Phoenix at JP@touchandchange.me