All Levels Welcome, geared toward engagement with Contact Improvisation space but no contact is necessary to engage with the class. We will be working on group awareness and trust. Together we will develop compositional awareness from within the composition and practice giving and taking focus. We are building skills for improvisational dance and performance settings. Taught by Mo Hayden and Naomi Oster, this work is heavily influenced by the work of Lower Left. Read more about Lower Left here.

Feel free to attend all or one of these dates, though the materials build over the course

This series is mask optional. The community agreements that operate in the Sunday Jam are applicable for this class series

Mo Hayden (they/them)
Mo Hayden lives and works in Chicago. They've practiced CI for four years, and began teaching a year ago. Everything they touch is queer. Mo is deeply invested in play, performance, and good clean fun. They've been taught by the entire Chicago CI community, but special intention from Ray Chung, Faye Driscoll, Raul Saldarriaga, Lower Left, and SetGo. Deepest gratitude to all who've taught this practice. 

Naomi Oster (any pronouns)

Came to practice contact improv in 2016 at Lawrence University, after a decade of devised theater roots. Ensemble thinking is the basis of their contact improv methodology after direct study with Lower Left ensemble members. Naomi's movement lineage includes lessons from Margaret Paek, Tamara Drew, Liz Yerkovich, all those inbetween and the dance floors of each Chicago Public School they attended.