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6.1.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
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
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
Andrew Suseno
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.
5.25.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
Jeff Doff
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
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
Andrew Suseno
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.
5.18.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
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
LAB :: with Funda Gul
5.16.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Andrew Suseno
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.
5.11.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
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 Dobbie
5.9.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Andrew Suseno
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.
5.4.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
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
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
Andrew Suseno
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.
4.27.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
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
elise knudson
4.25.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
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 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
Cullan Powers
4.18.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
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 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
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.