The Opposite of Isolation: All-Levels Contact Improv Workshop
Are you seeking more playfulness and creativity in your self-expression?
Are you curious about expanding your skillfulness and comfort with being consensually intimate and close with others?
Are you a mover and/or dancer eager to incorporate more improv and partnering in your practice?
All bodies welcome.
Hesitant folks extra welcome.
Experienced contact improvisers, lean in further.
Connect, listen, play, investigate, learn, unlearn.
If you have been curious about Contact Improv (CI), this is the perfect time to learn about all the fun and connection it has to offer. Beginners are welcome. Skeptics are wanted! Embrace this form of closeness, community, play and consensual touch: the OPPOSITE of isolation.
We'll practice full-body LISTENING and ATTUNEMENT
Physical closeness with others in general, and especially after so much separation, can be confronting, overwhelming, and profound. We will slowly work into connection and play from a place of deep listening, connecting with our boundaries and desires.
Logistics:
December 2, 10am-5pm with one hour break
Lapis Light Studio, Austin, TX
Sliding Scale Fee: Early bird rates until 11/2, then prices go up by $20
$135: Supporting level: for financially secure: may own multiple assets like car, home, have investments, may have/ will inherited wealth, etc. Paying this level supports others to attend.
$115: Sustaining Level: you can meet all of your financial needs with your income sources, might own a car, can rely on others to save money
$95: Access Level: for undergrad students, underemployed, others rely on you for material/financial support, etc.
COVID info:
Masks are optional.
Please wash your hands thoroughly before starting and after using the bathroom. Do not attend if you are feeling sick or are testing positive for COVID.
Cancellation Info:
Fifty percent refund granted if cancelled by Nov 15. Fee is not refundable beginning Nov 25.
Meet your facilitator:
JP Frank (they/them) is based in the land of the Salish Kootenai, now known as Missoula, MT, where they facilitate weekly Contact Improvisation classes. 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, Sole Medina, Paul Singh, Andrew Harwood, Andrea Scheel, 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: JP at JP@touchandchange.me