CI collective classes and jams in soho::

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**No registration required!**

6.1.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

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Juan David Vivero Murillo

Experienced dancer with 13 years of classical ballet and contemporary dance training and 8 years of professional experience with the Colombian contemporary dance company ‘Compañía Colombiana de Danza Contemporánea’ (CCDC). Elemental artist familiar with a wide range of contemporary styles (floorwork, modern, partening, contact improvisation). Strong ability to learn choreography quickly and wavelet stage performance.

5.31.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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Rachel Keane (RK)

Bio:

Rachel Keane (RK) is a Brooklyn based dancer, photographer, and general Jack of Many Trades. RK is a seasoned improviser who oftentimes doesn’t really understand why anyone would do anything other than improvise, if we’re being honest (but they can if you need them to). As an artist, RK is curious how we can collaborate through the lens of equity and consent to move toward justice and other generally light subject matter. After graduating with a BFA in Dance from The College at Brockport in 2015, Rachel has spent their time trying to embrace the fact that life is mostly gray area and, really, it’s okay to just have fun sometimes. That journey has allowed them to dance across the US with Nancy Hughes, Anne Burnidge, Paul Matteson, and Joanna Mendl Shaw (that one involved horses! You should ask them about it sometime!). Most recently, they have worked with long-time best friend and bad-ass, Maya Gonzalez to co-found MG|RK Collective. As they settle into the post-2020 “new normal” RK is excited to pursue new opportunities with MG|RK, teach a bit more (even though it’s scary), and just see what happens, you know?? You can see them noodling around in various spaces on instagram at @rk_co_dance, or if you want to chat, send an email to RachelKeaneDance@gmail.com

5.30.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

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Andrew Suseno

Introduction to Contact Improvisation classes through a Moving Rasa approach

Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American cis-hetero man residing on the unceded land of Lenaphoking. He is committed to challenging patriarchy, racism and sexual violence in the practice of Contact Improvisation and somatics. Andrew created Moving Rasa aka Parcon Resilience as a framework for site-specific movement improvisation and inquiry that centers his hybrid experiences as a diaspora person of the Global Majority in his integration of 20+ years of CI, somatic practices and anti-oppressive approaches.

 
Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or discerning feeling through  the heart.  Moving Rasa is a dynamic practice  connecting to Andrew's Javanese, Indonesian roots inviting participants to connect interdependently to their Rasa or essence. No experience is needed, just a willingness to take risks and play with moving the weight of your body, culture, and context with others.
Scholarships are available upon request for BIPOC students in financial need.
To learn more about Moving Rasa follow Andrew @MovingRasa on Instagram or go to www.movingrasa.com

5.25.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

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Jeff Doff

This class will use the metaphor of Butter to help us find a physical and emotional state of melting as we rise from the ground through "Butter Lifts" and as we melt to the ground. We will practice listening through the body to our internal consent as well as to others' consent and build comfort in saying yes AND in saying no.
As an awkward 7th grader, Jeff dreamed of feeling comfortable & looking good on the dance floor. Through 25 years of practicing contact improvisation, Jeff has found comfort, joy, & so much more in this dance form. Jeff has taught in New England & internationally in Austria. Jeff’s current teaching focuses on contact improvisation as a practice and helping it to feel safer, more accessible, and alive.
"Curiosity and play. Two elements of Contact Improvisation that you can count on experiencing when investigating and dancing with Jeff. . . Lifts in contact improvisation can at times be daunting. Buttery lifts is an approach that lifts the weight off of the topic."
"I so enjoyed taking this class with Jeff! My body found new ways to access lifts, a skill that does not always come naturally to me. Jeff offered technical guidance along with imagery and play which allowed me to move more smoothly in and out of lifts throughout my dance . . ."

5.24.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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rebeca medina

Bio:

rebeca medina. Improviser. Dancer. Choreographer. Craniosacral Therapist. Mother. Admirer of plants and disciple of their secrets. Interested in the magic of time and the power of community. Addicted to interdisciplinary collaborations. Curious about slow rhythms. Devoted to practice Contact Improvisations since 2002. Immigrant from Bogotá, Colombia.

5.23.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

Apr23Jam2

Andrew Suseno

Introduction to Contact Improvisation classes through a Moving Rasa approach

Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American cis-hetero man residing on the unceded land of Lenaphoking. He is committed to challenging patriarchy, racism and sexual violence in the practice of Contact Improvisation and somatics. Andrew created Moving Rasa aka Parcon Resilience as a framework for site-specific movement improvisation and inquiry that centers his hybrid experiences as a diaspora person of the Global Majority in his integration of 20+ years of CI, somatic practices and anti-oppressive approaches.

 
Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or discerning feeling through  the heart.  Moving Rasa is a dynamic practice  connecting to Andrew's Javanese, Indonesian roots inviting participants to connect interdependently to their Rasa or essence. No experience is needed, just a willingness to take risks and play with moving the weight of your body, culture, and context with others.
Scholarships are available upon request for BIPOC students in financial need.
To learn more about Moving Rasa follow Andrew @MovingRasa on Instagram or go to www.movingrasa.com

5.18.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

eliseknudson

elise knudson

elise knudson (eliseknudson.org) is a New York City based dance artist. She teaches Contact Improvisation for Movement Research and facilitates CI at festivals and studios such as Touch Festival (China), Leviathan Studio (Canada) WCCI Jam (Berkeley, USA) and Moab Jam (Utah). Elise has taught repertory and CI at Manhattanville College and Theory and Practice of Dance Improvisation at Yale University. She created NEXToNow, modeled after The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia to provide a platform for the practice of performing interdisciplinary free improvisation. Honored by the opportunity to perform improvised dance with Nancy Stark Smith, David Appel, Chris Aiken&Angie Hauser, Alicia Greyson and others, Elise has also enjoyed the opportunity to perform choreography with various Artists, including Christopher Williams, Jenni Hong Dance, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Koosil-ja/DANCE KUMIKO.  Over the years Elise has choreographed aerial dances, experimental installations and concert dances for stages large and small. She is currently interested in developing fluidity between instantaneous and premeditated choreography as a model for how to disrupt and recreate social constructs.

5.17.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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LAB :: with Funda Gul

Our CI lab will be specifically designed for reinforcing the CI concepts that we’ve been introduced to in our classes and workshops. Our CI research and study are akin to focused jam sessions, where we hold an opening circle to collectively decide what we want to study, without too much instruction. Depending on the group size and the specific concepts we aim to practice, we may work as a single group or split into subgroups. Rest assured, regardless of your level of proficiency, you are welcomed to join us.

5.16.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

Apr23Jam2

Andrew Suseno

Introduction to Contact Improvisation classes through a Moving Rasa approach

Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American cis-hetero man residing on the unceded land of Lenaphoking. He is committed to challenging patriarchy, racism and sexual violence in the practice of Contact Improvisation and somatics. Andrew created Moving Rasa aka Parcon Resilience as a framework for site-specific movement improvisation and inquiry that centers his hybrid experiences as a diaspora person of the Global Majority in his integration of 20+ years of CI, somatic practices and anti-oppressive approaches.

 
Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or discerning feeling through  the heart.  Moving Rasa is a dynamic practice  connecting to Andrew's Javanese, Indonesian roots inviting participants to connect interdependently to their Rasa or essence. No experience is needed, just a willingness to take risks and play with moving the weight of your body, culture, and context with others.
Scholarships are available upon request for BIPOC students in financial need.
To learn more about Moving Rasa follow Andrew @MovingRasa on Instagram or go to www.movingrasa.com

5.11.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

eliseknudson

elise knudson

elise knudson (eliseknudson.org) is a New York City based dance artist. She teaches Contact Improvisation for Movement Research and facilitates CI at festivals and studios such as Touch Festival (China), Leviathan Studio (Canada) WCCI Jam (Berkeley, USA) and Moab Jam (Utah). Elise has taught repertory and CI at Manhattanville College and Theory and Practice of Dance Improvisation at Yale University. She created NEXToNow, modeled after The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia to provide a platform for the practice of performing interdisciplinary free improvisation. Honored by the opportunity to perform improvised dance with Nancy Stark Smith, David Appel, Chris Aiken&Angie Hauser, Alicia Greyson and others, Elise has also enjoyed the opportunity to perform choreography with various Artists, including Christopher Williams, Jenni Hong Dance, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Koosil-ja/DANCE KUMIKO.  Over the years Elise has choreographed aerial dances, experimental installations and concert dances for stages large and small. She is currently interested in developing fluidity between instantaneous and premeditated choreography as a model for how to disrupt and recreate social constructs.

5.10.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

Michael

Michael Dobbie

Experimenting with containers and frames for the dance. Spaces that balance both very personal as well as larger collective processes to arise. Shared facilitation, various forms of emergent creativity. The first in a series of questions around the motivation to move and the creative process within a shared collective field.
For Michael art is life and life is art. Working at the intersections of personal growth, community development, creating spaces for urban play and learning. Over 30 year background in the improvisational arts.

5.9.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

Apr23Jam2

Andrew Suseno

Introduction to Contact Improvisation classes through a Moving Rasa approach

Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American cis-hetero man residing on the unceded land of Lenaphoking. He is committed to challenging patriarchy, racism and sexual violence in the practice of Contact Improvisation and somatics. Andrew created Moving Rasa aka Parcon Resilience as a framework for site-specific movement improvisation and inquiry that centers his hybrid experiences as a diaspora person of the Global Majority in his integration of 20+ years of CI, somatic practices and anti-oppressive approaches.

 
Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or discerning feeling through  the heart.  Moving Rasa is a dynamic practice  connecting to Andrew's Javanese, Indonesian roots inviting participants to connect interdependently to their Rasa or essence. No experience is needed, just a willingness to take risks and play with moving the weight of your body, culture, and context with others.
Scholarships are available upon request for BIPOC students in financial need.
To learn more about Moving Rasa follow Andrew @MovingRasa on Instagram or go to www.movingrasa.com

5.4.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

Peter Teaching

Peter Chamberlain

Peter started breakdance lessons at the age of 3.  He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2007-2011.  He has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers including Douglas Dunn, Kyle Abraham, Luke Murphy, Paul Singh, Colleen Thomas and Nora Petroliunas.  For more than a decade, Peter has been exploring contact improvisation.  He finds improvisation, physical problem solving and non-verbal communication to be an integral part of his creative process.  He has previously been a faculty member of Movement Research where he taught CI, and is an active member of the NYC CI community.  In 2018, Peter graduated with his MD from Cornell and is currently training as a Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. 

5.3.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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Paris Cullen

Paris Cullen (they/them) is a queer movement artist originally from San Diego and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. They are fascinated by the unveiling of the layers of their own mind and surrendering to the unknown that is continually in the process of becoming. P’s current creative endeavors include breakdancing, contact improvisation, drawing/painting, and juggling. Along with performing their own creative work at CreateART, The Craft, HATCH, In Progress Brooklyn, and Uptown Rising, P has also been an artist in residence at The Floor, Spoke the Hub, and Arts on Site. They have performed professionally with Pilobolus, Alison Chase/Performance, Spacejunk Dance, URBAN | TRIBE, Akiko Tokuoka, Smashworks Dance, Monica Bill Barnes & Co, and more. They also recently began hosting a queer contact improvisation jam in NYC. Contact P at pariscullen1996@gmail.com or @pariecullen (IG).

5.2.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

Apr23Jam2

Andrew Suseno

Introduction to Contact Improvisation classes through a Moving Rasa approach

Andrew Suseno is an Indonesian-Chinese American cis-hetero man residing on the unceded land of Lenaphoking. He is committed to challenging patriarchy, racism and sexual violence in the practice of Contact Improvisation and somatics. Andrew created Moving Rasa aka Parcon Resilience as a framework for site-specific movement improvisation and inquiry that centers his hybrid experiences as a diaspora person of the Global Majority in his integration of 20+ years of CI, somatic practices and anti-oppressive approaches.

 
Rasa is the Indonesian word for taste or discerning feeling through  the heart.  Moving Rasa is a dynamic practice  connecting to Andrew's Javanese, Indonesian roots inviting participants to connect interdependently to their Rasa or essence. No experience is needed, just a willingness to take risks and play with moving the weight of your body, culture, and context with others.
Scholarships are available upon request for BIPOC students in financial need.
To learn more about Moving Rasa follow Andrew @MovingRasa on Instagram or go to www.movingrasa.com

4.27.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

Peter Teaching

Peter Chamberlain

Peter started breakdance lessons at the age of 3.  He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2007-2011.  He has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers including Douglas Dunn, Kyle Abraham, Luke Murphy, Paul Singh, Colleen Thomas and Nora Petroliunas.  For more than a decade, Peter has been exploring contact improvisation.  He finds improvisation, physical problem solving and non-verbal communication to be an integral part of his creative process.  He has previously been a faculty member of Movement Research where he taught CI, and is an active member of the NYC CI community.  In 2018, Peter graduated with his MD from Cornell and is currently training as a Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. 

4.26.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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elise knudson

elise knudson (eliseknudson.org) is a New York City based dance artist. She teaches Contact Improvisation for Movement Research and facilitates CI at festivals and studios such as Touch Festival (China), Leviathan Studio (Canada) WCCI Jam (Berkeley, USA) and Moab Jam (Utah). Elise has taught repertory and CI at Manhattanville College and Theory and Practice of Dance Improvisation at Yale University. She created NEXToNow, modeled after The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia to provide a platform for the practice of performing interdisciplinary free improvisation. Honored by the opportunity to perform improvised dance with Nancy Stark Smith, David Appel, Chris Aiken&Angie Hauser, Alicia Greyson and others, Elise has also enjoyed the opportunity to perform choreography with various Artists, including Christopher Williams, Jenni Hong Dance, Kiori Kawai/Purring Tiger, Risa Jaroslow, Jody Oberfelder and Koosil-ja/DANCE KUMIKO.  Over the years Elise has choreographed aerial dances, experimental installations and concert dances for stages large and small. She is currently interested in developing fluidity between instantaneous and premeditated choreography as a model for how to disrupt and recreate social constructs.

 

4.25.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

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Juan David Vivero Murillo

Experienced dancer with 13 years of classical ballet and contemporary dance training and 8 years of professional experience with the Colombian contemporary dance company ‘Compañía Colombiana de Danza Contemporánea’ (CCDC). Elemental artist familiar with a wide range of contemporary styles (floorwork, modern, partening, contact improvisation). Strong ability to learn choreography quickly and wavelet stage performance.

4.20.23

Thursday


intermediate class

7-9pm

115 Wooster St. #2F

$20 cash or venmo

Peter Teaching

Peter Chamberlain

Peter started breakdance lessons at the age of 3.  He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2007-2011.  He has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers including Douglas Dunn, Kyle Abraham, Luke Murphy, Paul Singh, Colleen Thomas and Nora Petroliunas.  For more than a decade, Peter has been exploring contact improvisation.  He finds improvisation, physical problem solving and non-verbal communication to be an integral part of his creative process.  He has previously been a faculty member of Movement Research where he taught CI, and is an active member of the NYC CI community.  In 2018, Peter graduated with his MD from Cornell and is currently training as a Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. 

4.19.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

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Cullan Powers

Cullan Powers is a contemporary artist whose work focuses on body(ies) in space(s) to explore relationships to surroundings - immediate and perceivably indirect - through modes of perception and states of being emerging in improvisational dance, and living.
They practice martial arts, a little qi gong, a little Vipassana, and a variety of somatic modalities, but mostly does their thing ~ being a living breathing changing body in  space  &time.
You can currently find them doing sensual parkour in the streets, gardens, and parks of Lenape Land (New York).

 

4.18.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

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Juan David Vivero Murillo

Experienced dancer with 13 years of classical ballet and contemporary dance training and 8 years of professional experience with the Colombian contemporary dance company ‘Compañía Colombiana de Danza Contemporánea’ (CCDC). Elemental artist familiar with a wide range of contemporary styles (floorwork, modern, partening, contact improvisation). Strong ability to learn choreography quickly and wavelet stage performance.

4.12.23

Wednesday


class into jam

class: 6-7pm

jam: 7-9pm

100 Grand St. #2F

class: $15

jam: $5-15 sliding scale

cash or venmo

 

 

 

Peter Teaching

Peter Chamberlain

Peter started breakdance lessons at the age of 3.  He graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance and was a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 2007-2011.  He has had the pleasure to work with many choreographers including Douglas Dunn, Kyle Abraham, Luke Murphy, Paul Singh, Colleen Thomas and Nora Petroliunas.  For more than a decade, Peter has been exploring contact improvisation.  He finds improvisation, physical problem solving and non-verbal communication to be an integral part of his creative process.  He has previously been a faculty member of Movement Research where he taught CI, and is an active member of the NYC CI community.  In 2018, Peter graduated with his MD from Cornell and is currently training as a Fellow in Addiction Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. 

 

4.11.23

Tuesday 


CI basics skills class

6:30-8:30pm

100 Grand St. # 2F

$20 cash or venmo

 

 

IMG-20230209-WA0003

Juan David Vivero Murillo

Experienced dancer with 13 years of classical ballet and contemporary dance training and 8 years of professional experience with the Colombian contemporary dance company ‘Compañía Colombiana de Danza Contemporánea’ (CCDC). Elemental artist familiar with a wide range of contemporary styles (floorwork, modern, partening, contact improvisation). Strong ability to learn choreography quickly and wavelet stage performance.