SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2020, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

(Plus Contact Improvisation Jam (open, unstructured dancing): 4:30 - 5:45 p.m.)

We would sure love your completed registration and payment by Wednesday, February 19th.

You can contact the organizer, Sara Zolbrod at: szolbrod@hotmail.com and visit her website here: www.zolbrod.com

LOCATION:  
1645 Oak St., Eugene (Xcape Dance)
Please note that there are two Xcape Dance studios. This will be at 1645 Oak St., not 1615 Oak St.
1645 Oak St. is down the driveway/parking lot accessed from Oak St., located towards Pearl St. (It is NOT the studio right ON Oak St.)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
 
DEEP LISTENING (all levels Contact Improvisation workshop): Drawing on developmental movement patterns and skills of Contact Improvisation, this class will be accessible for all levels of movers. We will start on the floor with a gentle somatic-based warm up that will help the body to feel gravity. Growing from the floor to standing, we will practice smoothing out our transitions into upright dancing. Contact skills of reach, push, pull, fall, sluff, glide and roll will all be employed, using the floor as your loyal partner. If you are sometimes lost at class or jams, this class will provide codified skills and set “moves” that are important to learn so that you can use them in the dance. For example, how to get on a body with a low, medium or high shelf, and how to get back off. The goal is an aware, alert, and embodied presence that uses the full capacity of the dancer as a human being awake in the word. More sensitivity is reached through relaxing the nervous system. More alertness is reached through waking up the mind with moment-by-moment choice making. More embodiment is reached through a deep listening to the relationship to the earth, each other, and the space around us.
 
TEACHER BIO
Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, of Vancouver, Canada has been a Contact Improvisation teacher since 2006. Since 2002 she has studied with and has had an ongoing practice under master improviser and contact dancer Peter Bingham. She has also trained with Ray Chung, Andrew Harwood, and Chris Aiken. Jennifer was a performer from 2002- 2012 with MACHiNENOiSY in Vancouver, performing in works inspired and underpinned by Contact Improvisation. Jennifer has toured the west coast of Canada and the U.S.A. with a contact improvisation performance project. She has in Calgary, Zagreb (Croatia), and all over British Columbia including at at the Elsewhere Canadian Improvisation Festival, and at Leviathan Studio (Lasqueti Island). As a student of EDAM and Peter Bingham, Jennifer takes her place in the lineage as third generation to the originators and innovators of this postmodern partnering form. She also teaches many forms and styles of yoga and is a bodyworker.

COST:
$35 - 75 sliding scale (please add $5 - $10 if you want to stay for the jam afterwards, as well)
(Please contact organizer Sara for lower group rates for students or dance artists.)

If you want to visit the Facebook Event page, it's here: https://www.facebook.com/events/739817263091652/

(Un-related Sunday morning dancing ELSEWHERE:
"Coalessence Ecstatic Dance" at the WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, 10:00a.m.-12:00 p.m.(with pre-dance yoga at 9:00 a.m.) Pay at the door; it's a separate event. https://www.facebook.com/groups/31161346370/

If you want to add more dancing: Saturday, February 29th, 11:00 - 12:30 is Sara Zolbrod's weekly contact improvisation class (running every Saturday, Feb. 1 - March 14th), same location, 1645 Oak St.
And Friday, February 28th is Sara's "Mostly Movement Improvisation Lab," the last Friday of every month (except March), 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.

For other upcoming dance offerings like weekly contact improvisation classes, Mostly Movement Improvisation Labs (last Friday evening of each month), and special workshops in contact improvisation and other modalities with guest teachers, keep an eye on www.zolbrod.com

Also, you can see all current and future Eugene Contact Improvisation happenings here:
https://eugenecontactimprov.weebly.com