*Pay at the door for all events.*
**No registration required!**
9.28.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7:30-9:30pm
100 Grand St. 2nd Floor
$20 cash or venmo
Peter Chamberlin
note the odd time and place!!
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.
9.27.23
Wednesday
class into jam
(class: 6-7pm)
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
WARM-UP TBD, stay tuned
Jam will happen 7-9pm
doors open by 6:30pm
Masks suggested but not required.
9.26.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Luce Mahler-welcome back!
Bio:
Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC.
Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore!
She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be
9.21.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7:30-9:30pm
100 Grand St. 2nd Floor
$20 cash or venmo
Peter Chamberlin
note the odd time and place!!
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.
9.20.23
Wednesday
class into jam
(class: 6-7pm)
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
WARM-UP TBD, stay tuned
Jam will happen 7-9pm
doors open by 6:30pm
Masks suggested but not required.
9.19.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
*Ask about facilitation work/trade if you would like to take class for free!
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).
9.12.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Luce Mahler-Subbed by Paris!
Bio:
Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC.
Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore!
She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be
**ALL CLASSES AND JAM CANCELED FOR THE WEEK OF 9/4-9/8/2023**
8.23.23
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 Chamberlin + live music with Eldar
Bio:
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.
8.16.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Luce Mahler
Bio:
Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC.
Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore!
She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be
(More things happened in July and early August that are not listed here.)
7.13.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
7.6.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
Chris Cahoon
Christopher Cahoon is a somatic improviser based in the Lenape land known as Brooklyn. His creative practice utilizes Authentic Movement and Contact Improvisation, which help him prepare to not have a plan. His formative teachers include Nancy Stark Smith, Miguel Gutierrez, and Yvonne Meier. He was an Artist-in-Residence with the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation in 2019. He holds a BA in Rhetoric from Whitman College.
7.12.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Richard Kim
Bio:
I started dancing CI in Los Angeles in 2002. I've taught classes in New York City (Lehman College, 100 Grand Dance, Ecstatic Dance, Bhakti Center), Southern California, Western Massachusetts (Earthdance), Buffalo, and Michigan, and was the principal teacher for the first Buffalo Weekend Jam. I live and dance in New York City.
I like to focus on technique and practical exercises, with an emphasis on weight-sharing and the rolling point of contact. I like to de-mystify and break things down.
I'm particularly interested in truly off-balance weight-sharing; waiting; subtleties communicated through the point; footwork; moving with ease and efficiency; risk-taking; dancing on one foot; and identifying and breaking patterns. My favorite and most influential teachers include Stefan Fabry, Mary Herzog, Shel Wagner Rasch, Carolyn Waters, and Gretchen Spiro.
I was a presenter for the Consent Culture in Contact Improvisation Symposium (2020) and Future of CI conference (2011). I was a founder of the Earthdance Diversity Scholarship program and member of its DEI Committee, a founder and facilitator for the New York City CI Practica, and an organizer for Shift: The 2012 New York City Fall Equinox Jam. I blog on contact improvisation at contactimprovblog.com.
7.11.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Julianne Cariño
7.5.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Lilianna Kane will sub for Ilona Bito
Bio:
Lilianna Kane is a dancer and chef, currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of presence, attention, unknowing and inquiry. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She has trained with a plethora of teachers, collaborators, and friends. She is currently the head chef at The Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT, where she also has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. Website: www.liliannakane.com
Ilona Bito has almost a score of experience in dancing and researching contact improv, and brings a playful and practical approach to class. Bito’s choreography- concerned with instinct, intuition and the art of play- has been presented by RECESS at Chez Bushwick (April 2021), Movement Research at the Judson Church (March 2020), Brooklyn Studios for Dance (2018 Artist in Residence), and more. Bito has performed with Kathy Westwater since 2012- recently as rehearsal director for the world premiere of “Rambler…” at New York Live Arts, and as a core ensemble member with Daria Faïn/ The Commons Choir since 2015. Bito currently teaches youth with Movement Research Dance Makers in the Schools and Blue School, and all ages with Mind Over Matters fitness. In 2020 Ilona started Taproot Tai Chi LLC (@taproottaichi) and became a mother.
7.4.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Julianne Cariño
6.29.23
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.
6.28.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Gabrielle Revlock
Bio:
Gabrielle Revlock is a choreographer, performer, improviser, somatics educator and creator of Restorative Contact, a mindful touch-based movement practice, in-part inspired by her 20+ years as a practitioner of CI. In her choreographic work she depicts complicated but relatable interpersonal relationships, developed through meticulous character study and improvisational structures. For these she has been honored with a Bessie Award, Rocky Award and was a finalist at The Award Show: Philadelphia. In 2019 she was a Target Margin Institute Fellow and in 2018 she was named ‘Newcomer of the Year’ by the performance journal Tanz. Revlock was a presenter at the 2020 Embodiment Conference, 2020 Dance & Somatics Conference and 2021 Future of CI Conference. For 2022 she will be an invited facilitator at the 50th Anniversary of Contact Improvisation as well as a contributor to a book of essays on the subject edited by Ann Cooper Albright. More at GabrielleRevlock.com
6.27.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Peter Chamberlin is subbing for Rolyn Hu
Rolyn Hu is a mover, musician, somatic practitioner, general fun stuff maker and community organizer co-existing with epilepsy and Lyme. She Co-Founded the Afterschool Arts Program for Kids and was Co-Owner of Glasslands Gallery one of the longest running community artspace and music venues in N. Brooklyn. She has facilitated Somatic workshops in U.S. and abroad. CI, play, vocal embodiment, Butoh and authentic movement are her primary love languages. She has over 20 yrs experience in Internal Taoist Arts studying under Master Hong Liu and Sifu Chen. She is a Somatic Practitioner with focus in Somatic Experiencing, Parts Work (IFS)and Trauma Informed Polyvagal Theory. Currently she is navigating the able/non-abled bodied adventure of life with compassion, curiosity and natural bodies of water.
Rolyn has released two EPs on Chicago's Locust label and played trumpet w/ 75 Dollar Bill. She has performed live w/ Daniel Carter, Jozef Van Wissem and Robbie Lee at John Zorn's The Stone, Issue Project Room, Zebulon, Barbes, GBE Gallery etc.
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.
6.22.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
Eryn Rosenthal
Eryn Rosenthal is an active member of international Contact Improvisation (CI) research and teacher exchange networks, teaching, performing and facilitating at the Freiburg Festival (Germany), the Market Theatre Lab (South Africa), ECITE (Hungary), Teatro Montealegre (Chile), Gravity Tank (US), and elsewhere since 2003. She is also one of the co-founders of the NYC Underscore. Her classes investigate joy and play, building physical listening skills, curiosity, agility and relational awareness through the body. In addition to her work in CI, Eryn is a choreographer, performer and social practice artist, collaborating with artists and activists in South Africa, Spain, US, and most recently in Chile, connected with the estallido social and Constitutional process. Her ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions–political, social, intimate–through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. Eryn teaches CI, improvisation and interdisciplinary performance at Yale University, in Dance and Democracy: Movement Improvisation and Liberation Pedagogies, and Making Performance on Socio-Political Questions. She is delighted to be back teaching in New York. www.erynrosenthal.com
6.21.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Luce Mahler
Bio:
Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC.
Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore!
She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be
6.20.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Rolyn Hu
Rolyn Hu is a mover, musician, somatic practitioner, general fun stuff maker and community organizer co-existing with epilepsy and Lyme. She Co-Founded the Afterschool Arts Program for Kids and was Co-Owner of Glasslands Gallery one of the longest running community artspace and music venues in N. Brooklyn. She has facilitated Somatic workshops in U.S. and abroad. CI, play, vocal embodiment, Butoh and authentic movement are her primary love languages. She has over 20 yrs experience in Internal Taoist Arts studying under Master Hong Liu and Sifu Chen. She is a Somatic Practitioner with focus in Somatic Experiencing, Parts Work (IFS)and Trauma Informed Polyvagal Theory. Currently she is navigating the able/non-abled bodied adventure of life with compassion, curiosity and natural bodies of water.
Rolyn has released two EPs on Chicago's Locust label and played trumpet w/ 75 Dollar Bill. She has performed live w/ Daniel Carter, Jozef Van Wissem and Robbie Lee at John Zorn's The Stone, Issue Project Room, Zebulon, Barbes, GBE Gallery etc.
6.16.23
Friday
BIPOC workshop
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
FREE
Beginning Again and Again: A BIPOC Contact Improvisation Workshop
Andrew Suseno and mayfield brooks
Andrew Suseno is creator of Moving Rasa, a site specific movement improvisation inspired by his practice of Contact improvisation, parkour, somatics and Indonesian philosophy. His work focuses on working with BIPOC people across intersectionalities of ability, age, gender and sexuality as well as across disciplines to dismantle white supremacy and lift up a somatics of plurality.
mayfield brooks (they/them) is a movement based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer, and wanderer based in Lenapehoking also known as Brooklyn, New York. They are the 2021 recipient of the Merce Cunningham Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, their dance film, Whale Fall, was nominated for a 2021 Bessie Award, and they are a 2022-23 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. brooks is an international teacher and performer whose entire body of work arises from their life/art/movement practice, Improvising While Black aka IWB.
register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beginning-again-and-again-a-bipoc-contact-improvisation-workshop-tickets-648188117107?aff=oddtdtcreator
6.15.23
Thursday
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
Eryn Rosenthal
Eryn Rosenthal is an active member of international Contact Improvisation (CI) research and teacher exchange networks, teaching, performing and facilitating at the Freiburg Festival (Germany), the Market Theatre Lab (South Africa), ECITE (Hungary), Teatro Montealegre (Chile), Gravity Tank (US), and elsewhere since 2003. She is also one of the co-founders of the NYC Underscore. Her classes investigate joy and play, building physical listening skills, curiosity, agility and relational awareness through the body. In addition to her work in CI, Eryn is a choreographer, performer and social practice artist, collaborating with artists and activists in South Africa, Spain, US, and most recently in Chile, connected with the estallido social and Constitutional process. Her ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions–political, social, intimate–through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. Eryn teaches CI, improvisation and interdisciplinary performance at Yale University, in Dance and Democracy: Movement Improvisation and Liberation Pedagogies, and Making Performance on Socio-Political Questions. She is delighted to be back teaching in New York. www.erynrosenthal.com
6.14.23
Wednesday
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Autumn Amor
Bio:
Autumn Amor is a Physical Therapist intuitive healer, dancer, teacher and facilitator. Her movement language is informed by contact improvisation, solo improvisation, functional patterns, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, authentic relating, authentic movement, qi gong, salsa, cha cha, blues, contemporary dance, yoga and acroyoga.
6.13.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand St. # 2F
$20 cash or venmo
Ophra Wolf
Ophra Wolf (ophrawolf.com, www.forceandflow.com) is a dancer and performance artist, teacher and healer dedicated to a lifelong study of movement and embodied intelligence as a vehicle for personal and cultural transformation. Improvisation is her core creative practice, CI is at the heart of her journey as an artist. Her teaching is informed by a love of play and collaboration and weaves together highly technical approaches with knowledge from her advanced bodywork, Medical Qi Gong and performance practices. In recent years she’s been focused on bringing dance improvisation to underserved communities via Newburgh Open Movement (@NewburghOpenMovement) and applying her collaborative, site specific art making skills to water rights reclamation and environmental justice actions. She holds an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BA in Sociology and Dance from UC Berkeley and is the recipient of numerous grants for the creation of original work and dance and art related community events.
6.8.23
Thursday CANCELLED BECAUSE OF SMOKE
intermediate class
7-9pm
115 Wooster St. #2F
$20 cash or venmo
Eryn Rosenthal
Eryn Rosenthal is an active member of international Contact Improvisation (CI) research and teacher exchange networks, teaching, performing and facilitating at the Freiburg Festival (Germany), the Market Theatre Lab (South Africa), ECITE (Hungary), Teatro Montealegre (Chile), Gravity Tank (US), and elsewhere since 2003. She is also one of the co-founders of the NYC Underscore. Her classes investigate joy and play, building physical listening skills, curiosity, agility and relational awareness through the body. In addition to her work in CI, Eryn is a choreographer, performer and social practice artist, collaborating with artists and activists in South Africa, Spain, US, and most recently in Chile, connected with the estallido social and Constitutional process. Her ongoing series, The Doors Project, investigates transitions–political, social, intimate–through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. Eryn teaches CI, improvisation and interdisciplinary performance at Yale University, in Dance and Democracy: Movement Improvisation and Liberation Pedagogies, and Making Performance on Socio-Political Questions. She is delighted to be back teaching in New York. www.erynrosenthal.com
6.7.23
Wednesday (Jack Magai subbed because of smoke.)
class into jam
class: 6-7pm
jam: 7-9pm
100 Grand St. #2F
class: $15
jam: $5-15 sliding scale
cash or venmo
Ilona Bito
Bio:
Ilona Bito has almost a score of experience in dancing and researching contact improv, and brings a playful and practical approach to class. Bito’s choreography- concerned with instinct, intuition and the art of play- has been presented by RECESS at Chez Bushwick (April 2021), Movement Research at the Judson Church (March 2020), Brooklyn Studios for Dance (2018 Artist in Residence), and more. Bito has performed with Kathy Westwater since 2012- recently as rehearsal director for the world premiere of “Rambler…” at New York Live Arts, and as a core ensemble member with Daria Faïn/ The Commons Choir since 2015. Bito currently teaches youth with Movement Research Dance Makers in the Schools and Blue School, and all ages with Mind Over Matters fitness. In 2020 Ilona started Taproot Tai Chi LLC (@taproottaichi) and became a mother.
6.6.23
Tuesday
CI basics skills class
6:30-8:30pm
100 Grand 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.
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.