A focused space for practice, research, and celebration of Contact Improvisation.
We invite you as last year to come begin the year with dancing!
Each day, we jam for 3.5 hours supported and guided by different facilitators. By the end of each week there will be an evening dedicated to performance and performative scores.
This is a focused space dedicated to Contact improvisation, crafted to support and encourage extended practice, research, and sharing of the dance. It is a space to learn from the dance itself.
Jam Continuum is for those interested in focused, continuous practice, ready to commit in care of the shared presence— to arrive on time, stay till the end, and support with dancing and witnessing presence.
The capacity of our space allows a maximum of 30 participants. Therefore, if you want to join us, we recommend registering sooner rather than later. Also, considering the limited slots, please commit to attending all (or most) jams if you do register.
It is possible to attend one, two, or three weeks.
S𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞:
Sundays: 10.00-13.30 tuning into jam
Mondays: 10.00-13.30 contemplative dance practice jam
Tuesdays: 17.30-21.00 tuning into jam
Wednesdays: 17.30-21.00 one hour laboratory into jam
Thursdays: 17.30-21.00 tuning into jam
Fridays: 17.30-21.00 performative evening
Saturdays: off
𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚tion:
The jams will be held and supported by our sphere of experienced dancers. This is a jam space only, with minimal guidance, and therefore intended for those with some experience in Contact Improvisation.
We are looking forward to dancing and being together!
Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton.
”The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion —gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner.”
”Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one's basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.”
”The reason its called contact improvisation is because there is a 3rd entity that arises in this state. Hopefully you get to a state of agreement between the two of you that neither one of you is leading. It doesn’t become leaderless, it is the two of you who are together leading.”
”The exigency of the form dictates a mode of movement which is relaxed, constantly aware and prepared, and onflowing. As a basic focus, the dancers remain in physical touch, mutually supportive and innovative, meditating upon the physical laws relating to their masses: gravity, momentum, inertia, and friction. They do not strive to achieve results, but rather, to meet the constantly changing physical reality with appropriate placement and energy.”
COST:
ALL THREE WEEKS: 5000 THAI BAHT
PER WEEK: 1900 THAI BAHT