8 PM - Opening circle and self or community led warm up 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Weekly rotation between contact improv supportive DJ soundscape, Live music and focused score or creativity incubator. NOTE THIS IS AN EMBODIED PRACTICE: Please no chatting/socializing on the dance floor. Feel free to visit with friends in the adjacent lobby area so that we can keep the studio space for focused jamming. Thank you. SCHEDULE: Monthly schedule of warm up facilitators and soundscape artists or themes exploration to be posted at the beginning of each month. What is Contact Improvisation? Contact improvisation (CI) is a creative dance form emerging from physical contact between partners. It was created by Steve Paxton, a student of Merce Cunningham, in the United States in 1972. The practice transcends the established boundaries between gymnastics, martial arts, meditation and dance. In doing contact, dancers directly experience with their partners the dynamic physical forces which affect all movement: mass, momentum, inertia, friction. The multidimensional nature - physical, emotional and spiritual - of the point of contact also allows the dancers to engage in non-verbal communication in a concrete manner and on several levels