This is not your typical contact workshop

We won't be learning technical skills.

We WILL be diving into the parts of contact not often centered in CI spaces: power dynamics, emotions, relinquishing and assuming control, and what belonging means for us.

We facilitate in a trauma-informed, transparent way.

Which starts now by forecasting that this content will likely move and shake you up in powerful and unpredictable ways.

To us, trauma-informed means inviting you to participate by engaging, witnessing, or resting.  It means centering consent and clear forecasting in every exercise. Your boundaries in this process, from start to finish, are the golden threads in all of these undercurrents. They are what will allow us to go deeper.

We invite you to let the practices metabolize the full spectrum of your life outside of the dance.

We will be exploring how to utilize this practice as a method for more fully processing our lives outside of Jams so as to be able to bring our whole selves to the dance. This means dismantling the “Check your problems at the door” attitude and welcoming in what is present. 

Pre-requisite:

Enough CI practice to have at least some sense of your habits, preferences, and aversions within CI Spaces.

Money stuff:

Sliding Scale Fee: $70-$120

Option to pay a 50% deposit to register, remainder due one day before training.

Talk to us about money if this fee prevents you from attending

Meet your facilitators:

JP Frank (they/them) is based in 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, Leilani Weis, Sole Medina, Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, and Ray Chung.  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.

Leland (Lee) Hull (He/Him/They/Them) Is a dancer and facilitator of CI in Portland, Oregon where he hosts a bi-weekly Queer Jam. Having been introduced to CI at Oberlin College in 2007 he has been dancing and teaching on a weekly basis ever since. Lee’s teachings often focus on building relationships based on consent and exploration through expression with multiple forms of communication including verbal, physical, and energetic. He approaches teaching with a non-hierarchical mindset where participant involvement and opinions are encouraged and elevated.