Anna-Lisa Adelberg --- Releasing the Bear, Surrendering to the Dove
Friday, June 30, 9:30 am

Releasing the Bear, Surrendering to the Dove --- Free the great energy within. Dancing from our mighty nature. Responding to the subtle, soft touch of wings. Release that !##*!$# resistance, let it clamp on someone else! Sound, touch and movement to release body tension, holding patterns, letting the visceral veer our awareness from our moving desires to the subtle cues of our visible and invisible partners.

Anna-Lisa Adelberg has been practicing and performing contact improvisation and interdisciplinary dance for 10 years. Her current interests are in momentum and dynamic flow combined with subtle layers of listening and physical presence. She is an energy body worker dedicated to freeing the vessel so that divine expresses vividly on planet earth.

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Quinton Bennet --- Tricks to Ascension
July 1, 3:15 pm

Tricks to Ascension --- Using tricks and techniques we will explore ascending the body and traversing it's landscape. Learn more tricks to facilitate your partners ascension. Focus in on specific pathways and special tricks to ascend the body and get airborne, floor to sky.

Quinton Bennet, Rock climber, modern dancer, snow boarder, skateboarder, adrenaline connoisseur, unicyclist, slack line walker, general contractor, contactor, for Quinton it's all about being in your body.

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Tara Brandel (Eric Ferguson) --- Mixed Ability and Contact Improvisation
3-day Mixed Ability Intensive
June 30, July 1, 3, 1:00 pm

Mixed Ability and Contact Improvisation Explore the basic principles of contact improvisation, gravity, awareness of the body, giving and receiving touch and weight, and ensemble thinking through a whole new lens. A new language emerges when people with and without disabilities agree to improvise together. Discover new partnering skills through the natural assymetry of the human form.

Tara Brandel started learning contact with Steve Paxton when she was 15, and has been teaching since 1991, in Ireland, Berlin, and California. She lives in Oakland where she teaches Contact at Hayward State University and the Temescal Arts Center, and runs her dance company Mna Rua Dance Productions. She has been participating in mixed ability contact, and physically integrated dance since 1997, with DanceAbility and Axis Dance company.

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Daniel Burkholder --- Speed Limits and U-Turns
July 3, 9:30 am

Speed Limits and U-Turns How do we expand the range of our dancing? How do we break through our habitual movement patterns as we practice contact improvisation? In this class we will use changes of speed, direction and energy to expand your range of dancing. We will look to cultivate the ability to surprise ourselves.

Daniel Burkholder is the Director of The PlayGround, a DC based improvisational performance group, the Co-Director of Improv Arts, inc. (http://improvarts.alkem.org) and a Curator/Co-Organizer of the DC International Improvisation Festival (www.improvfestival.com). His work has been commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and presented throughout the Metro DC region, New York City and in the Bay area.

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Teri Carter --- Spiraling into Performance
July 3, 9:30 am

Spiraling into Performance How do we bring the integrity of CI and somatic experiencing into improvisational dance performance? Spirals inform the core of our existence, from our DNA to the curve of our bones, and out through pathways in space. Organic sensory experiences will enhance the circular and fluid nature of our dancing. Integrating internal awareness with physical and compositional concerns, we'll tap the resources of Authentic Movement's witnessing , Contact Improv's touch and 3D spatial awareness , Body-Mind Centering's experiential anatomy , and Tai Chi's intrinsic alignment to engage in movement for performance.

Teri Carter, has taught, performed and choreographed in the U.S., Europe and Mexico, with a focus on CI since 1980. She founded Intention Dance Theatre and maintains a private holistic health care practice in L.A.  She has a BFA & MA in Dance, is certified in "Body-Mind Centering", Chi Gung and Massage. While in NYC during the 90's, she founded/directed Mobility Junction Dance, a company of mixed ability artists.

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Clover Catskill --- Aerial Dance: Contact Improvisation and Low-Flying Trapeze
June 30, 1:00 pm

Aerial Dance: Contact Improvisation and Low-Flying Trapeze Low-hanging trapezes offer the possibility of dancing with the ground and air in new ways. We'll explore the similarities and differences between Contact Improv on the ground and with trapeze, through "solo" CI dancing with our trapeze partners, duets on the trapeze, and the integration of Contact dance on the floor and on the trapeze. Knowledge of basic CI skills will be assumed.

Clover Catskill has 28 years experience performing and teaching movement/dance and trapeze classes in the Bay Area, Europe and Canada. She took her first Contact Improv class in the late '70s. Since 1988 she has been exploring and teaching applications of Body-Mind Centering® to Contact Improvisation, and, more recently, the trapeze as a fascinating and unusual contact partner.

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Brenton Cheng --- Wind and Light
June 30, 3:15 pm

Wind and Light Our dance, like our bodies, rides along a continuum between dynamic polarities, balancing inward gathering and outward brilliance, phrasing between action and recoil. The rhythms of our choice-making create our movement signature and will be our focus. We will play the full dynamic range of our capacities. Breath will be the doorway and the frame.

Brenton Cheng is a teacher, director, and performer of improvised and choreographed work. He teaches contact improvisation classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and gives workshops in Europe, Russia, and Taiwan. He draws other inspiration from Laban/Bartenieff movement studies, release technique, the martial arts, bodywork, and acrobatics. He is on the faculty at Moving On Center, in Oakland.

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John Dowell --- Getting into the Zone
June 30 1:00 pm

Getting into the Zone Most dancers, tennis players, blues guitarists and race car drivers have experienced The Zone; that state where everything just flows and we are carried by a wave of inspiration. In the zone there is a deep connection to ourselves and our partners. This class will explore some tricks, practices and attitudes for getting there more consistently. Along the way we will dance in solo, duet, quartet and with the whole room. Come have a swirling, flying, head over heels dance, and hopefully several juicy, deeply connected surprises will come from entering The Zone.

John Dowell has been studying CI for twelve years and teaching for seven years. His teaching is influenced by 17 years of rock climbing, teaching climbers, dancing on rocks, and figurative painting. He considers creating dance and performing a thrilling privilege second only to teaching creative movement and his work as a body-mind therapist.

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Katarina Eriksson --- Center, Connect, Create
July 3, 9:30 am

Center, Connect, Create Starting with a warm-up that focuses on the awareness of your own center, and its relation to your partner's center. Exploring this through light touch and easy meetings, as well as through more specific lifting techniques. From a cultivated "center-to-center" connection, we will move on to dances where we play with improvisational aspects such as timing and spatial relationships.

Katarina Eriksson has a traditional dance background and has worked with various choreographers and companies, including The Gothenburg State Theater. Since 1989, Katarina has been involved in improvisational dance, regularly collaborating with other artists, such as Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung, and Cathie Caraker. She curates the improvisation salon Moment's Notice, and teaches theater improv at The Cathedral School for Boys.

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Erik Ferguson (Tara Brandel) --- Mixed Ability and Contact Improvisation
3-day Mixed Ability Intensive
June 30, July 1, 3, 1:00 pm

Mixed Ability and Contact Improvisation Explore the basic principles of contact improvisation, gravity, awareness of the body, giving and receiving touch and weight, and ensemble thinking through a whole new lens. A new language emerges when people with and without disabilities agree to improvise together. Discover new partnering skills through the natural assymetry of the human form.

Erik Ferguson was trained in DanceAbility in Germany in 2003 after working for several years with visual art, performance art and Butoh. He is a grateful practitioner of Contact Improvisation and is indebted to Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson and Carolyn Stuart. He is also the co-founder of the Disability Art and Culture Project, which seeks to promote disability culture and pride through dance.

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Terese Gjernes --- Roots and Wings
July 3, 3:15 pm

Roots and Wings From a base of core support, we'll establish connection and develop lightness. We'll then expand into little lifts and light leverage. Dancing starfish tumbling, falling stars and winged flight.

Terese Gjernes has been practicing, teaching and performing contact improvisation locally (and sometimes overseas) for over a decade. She strives to bring a blend of curiosity, calculated risk, and playful inquiry into her work. Her classes are inspired by her practices in somatics, Authentic Movement, yoga, and post-modern movement. She is also a licensed Psychologist with a private practice in body-centered psychotherapy in Berkeley.

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Patrick Gracewood (Carolyn Stuart) --- C.I.- the Touchmonkey Perspective
3-day All Levels Intensive
June 30, July 1, 3, 3:15 pm

C.I.- the Touchmonkey Perspective The Touchmonkey perspective comes from their 20-year relationship in the form. Their playful approach emphasizes exploration, emotional awareness, and a committed connection. At this workshop learn how to take care of yourself with contact as bodywork, explore the seven options of how to use the point of contact and use the standing/reclining score to practice simultaneous connection and autonomy.

Patrick Gracewood helps facilitate two weekly jams in Portland, Oregon

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Katja Irvin and Karin Moriarty --- Holding and Letting Go
June 30, 3:15 pm

Holding and Letting Go Let yourself be held. We will move from a base of deep connection in and out of contact, using the concepts of reaching, rolling, and sliding in changing spatial configurations. This material will specifically address moving in and out of the floor with a partner, options for engaging and disengaging, and techniques for finding easy lifts.

Katja Irvin is a student, performer, and teacher of many movement arts. She has a background in gymnastics, modern dance, and capoeira. Her teaching is also influenced by Nita Little's Mind in Motion theories. She has been teaching Contact Improvisation in the Bay Area since 1997. She currently teaches in Palo Alto and organizes the yearly Harbin Jam in Northern California.

Karin Moriarty holds a Dance degree from UC Berkeley. She co-founded Dance-Is-It, a contact improv teaching and performing group, and is a Harbin Jam organizer. She teaches at DanceVisions studio and Stanford University. Karin's choreography is based in CI and ritual theater. She is also interested in site-specific performance. Her piece “Along the River” was set at an Andy Goldsworthy sculpture.

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Ralf Jaroschinski --- Trios = Even More Support
July 4, 3:15 pm

Trios = Even More Support At first, the class focuses on centering and awareness: We will look for the true internal source and the authentic external expression of our own dance. We will then investigate attentively the texture of our connection with our partners through listening to their and again our actions and reactions within the trios' dance. During this, we will be able to fully enjoy participating in the group's dance, because our contributing to it will be generous and full-hearted, since it is at all times nurtured from within and therefore inexhaustible. And so, finally, we will feel union and satisfaction while dancing with more than one partner, because we'll not only experience space and momentum in the trios' dynamic dance, but also the heightened support we get from dancing with more than one person.

Ralf Jaroschinski grew up in Brazil, was trained in classical, modern and contemporary dance techniques in Germany and in New York City. He works as a dancer, teacher and choreographer since 16 years mainly in Europe. He teaches contact improvisation since 10 years and uses it in the choreographic research for his pieces while emphasizing authenticity and expressivity of the dance.

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Aaron Jessup (Tracy Vogel) --- Begin Again
4-day Beginners Intensive
June 30, July 1, 2, 3, 9:30 am

Begin Again Each day we wake up to the opportunity of a new beginning. Sometimes you only get one chance to begin. In this intensive we will explore and cultivate the sweet nature of beginnings with CI. Come and learn how to build a strong foundation through skills development and adventuring so that you can fall in love with beginning again and again.

Aaron Jessup Originally coming from a circus and street performing background, Aaron has been a student of Contact Improvisation since 1990. He has taught classes and workshops since 1997, including a year at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy. His current passion involves leading wilderness expeditions with an awareness focus for his company, the Institute for the Study of Awareness in Nature.
www.isantrips.com

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Mark Koenig --- Beginning Mastery
July 4, 9:30 am

Beginning Mastery Mastery is not a destination. It is a process, a path beginning here, now. This class presents fundamental tools such as Being Present, Following the Point, Weight Sharing, Listening, and Improvisation. Consistent practice of these fundamentals keeps you on the path of Mastery. The biggest pitfall is believing that you know something. The key to Mastery is to always be a beginner.

Mark Koenig has taught Contact Improvisation dance in California, Colorado, New Mexico and Illinois since 1995. His background includes gymnastics, martial arts and modern dance. A founding member the Sonoma State University Contact Improvisation jam, and of several improvisational music and dance performance collectives, Mark has taught at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival since 1998.

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Vitali Kononov --- Assisted Levitation
July 4, 9:30 am

Assisted Levitation We will examine some specific pathways in contact related to elevating. Basic understanding of contact principles will be required. This class is an experimental lab for people interested in advancing their skills. If you have wings - please bring them, if you don't - come and find them for your dancing.

Vitali Kononov is a dancer, director, teacher, bodyworker, and improvisational performance artist. Born in Russia, transplanted to Bay Area in 2001. His studies have included contact improvisation, dance, physical theater, clowning, as well as various somatic disciplines and improvisation modalities. Vitali teaches regularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, and annually at the American Dance Festival (2003-04).

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John LeFan --- Contact Improvisation in Performance
2-day Performance Intensive
July 1, 9:30 am & 3:15 pm; July 2, 9:30 am

Contact Improvisation in Performance The participants work their asses off all day (meeting for all three sessions of one day) and perform that night then the next morning's class is based on the learning experience of the performance. Then there is a second performance that evening to apply the lessons of the night before. I believe this structure allows for a true intensive experience.
Pre-requisite: Must have performance experience. Must be signed up for minimum of three days of the festival. Any level of Contact is acceptable; any type of ability or disability is acceptable. Limit of 25 in the group.

John LeFan Teaching and performing since 1974. Contact Improvisation consultant for Royal Canadian Ballet, Houston Ballet, Val Caniparoli, Joe Goode, Whoopi Goldberg and thousands who just love to dance. His company, Mangrove, performed Contact Improvisation based dance throughout Europe and North America 1975 - 81. Co-producer of Dibub Nigat Circus of Awassa Ethiopia, a company of orphans touring the AIDS Education Circus and the Sherkole Refugee Theater, a Sudanese refugee's theater teaching land mine awareness.

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Nita Little --- A Moment Can Be A Toy
July 3, 1:00 & 3:15 pm

A Moment Can Be A Toy A look at the ingredients present in each physical/mental/emotional moment of CI. Forming a practice of experiencing presence, we will question our limitations and move to develop the tools that support creative freedom. Finding the relationship between states of mind, what we feel, and what we do in our dancing moments we will move between open action and contact action bridging both with touch.

Nita Little n/a

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Jacqueline McCormick --- Rolling, Sliding, Anchoring: Journeying on a Surface
                                                 and in the Air
July 4, 9:30 am

Rolling, Sliding, Anchoring: Journeying on a Surface and in the Air n/a

Jacqueline McCormick teaches, performs, directs and makes dances. She has a B.Ed in Human Movement Studies, and an M.A in Dance from Mills College, CA. Jacqueline was Associate Professor in Dance at Western Oregon University (1985-1996) and Connecticut College (2000-2004). She directs and performs in her company DanceAbout . Jacqueline is presently the Dance Director for Cheshire Dance, UK.

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Julie Oak --- Omni-Presence or Contact and Theater
July 1, 9:30 am

Omni-Presence or Contact and Theater Juice up dances with varied movement qualities and relationship play. Discover an exciting blend of moving, sounding, and speaking. Class includes a period of watching each other and giving supportive, constructive feedback.

Julie Oak Julie Oak taught Contact Improvisation for over fifteen years. Her classes emphasize sensory awareness, group energy, hutzpah and fun. She is currrently based in Santa Cruz, where she teaches, and performs “RealPlay Moving Theater”, which includes elements of Contact Improvisation, as well as, movement expression, sounding, and verbal play.

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Tim O'Donnell --- Enjoying the Connection
July 3, 1:00 pm

Enjoying the Connection We will work with basic skills to create a safe and functional structure from which to plunge into rich engaging dances.

Tim O'Donnell has been practicing, teaching and loving CI since his first WCCIF in 1994. He has danced and performed professionally throughout the western United States and in Europe. Tim holds an MFA in dance, is a Bodyworker and Gyrotonic trainer. He currently lives in Arizona and is excited to return to the bay area and share his love for this unique form.

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Jez Parus --- Falling into Flying
July 1,1:00 pm

Falling into Flying Trusting gravity, yourself and falling are more important than trusting your partner. Multiple soft pathways into the floor give freedom to patterns of flight.

Jez Parus has been teaching and performing CI for over a decade. She passionately encourages her students to discover both softness and strength and to let go of notions of who they think they are (or are not). She practices CI as an artform, a folk dance and a pathway to personal awakening. Jez is currently a student of The Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Experiencing.

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Carolyn Stuart (Patrick Gracewood) --- C.I.- the Touchmonkey Perspective
3-day All Levels Intensive
June 30, July 1, 3, 3:15 pm

C.I.- the Touchmonkey Perspective The Touchmonkey perspective comes from their 20-year relationship in the form. Their playful approach emphasizes exploration, emotional awareness, and a committed connection. At this workshop learn how to take care of yourself with contact as bodywork, explore the seven options of how to use the point of contact and use the standing/reclining score to practice simultaneous connection and autonomy.

Carolyn Stuart's paradigm of choice is Contact Improvisation. Carolyn explores, uses and offers it mostly in Portland, Oregon these days.

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Carol Swann --- The Improvisation of Contact
June 30, 9:30 am & July 2, 9:30 am

please note: this class has been moved from Spring/Fall studio
to a new location, Studio Rasa, 933 Parker St. located at the
south end of the main "sawtooth" building which houses all the studios.

The Improvisation of Contact There is the Contact "technique" and there is the "Improvisation". They are so interdependent as a whole that we may wonder, what's to separate? I would say that the principles of the technique are very specific and identifiable but the Improvisation, at a more finely tuned level is dependent on the practitioner's level of inquiry and exploration of "Improvisation" itself.

In this class we will work with the Contact duet as the primary focus and use the basic principles of the "technique" as the support ground. Going beyond the technique we will look into the vast possibilities of more specific Improvisational expression.

How do we see and listen for what presents itself to us as material to work with and how might we work with it? How do we recognize and how do we find our own movement images? When do we chose to follow our own and our partner's impulses and when do we chose to go against them? What is our fluidity between shifts of ideas? Can we dance with a partner who is in a different state and be in relationship? Can we still be in "Contact" when we are physically separated? What supports the improvisational process in the "technique" and what gets in the way? How do our own "signatures" support and habituate us?

These are the questions we will be researching. Please assess yourself as intermediate or beyond in your skill level of Contact and be prepared to examine the subtleties (big and small) of the work.

Carol Swann is a teacher, private practitioner, facilitator, director, performer and visionary. She has been teaching and performing vocal and Contact Improvisation related work for over twenty years in the U.S. and Europe. She is a co-founder and teacher/Director of Moving On Center-School of Participatory Arts and Somatic Research. She maintains a private practice in Hakomi/Process Work Somatic Therapy, Alexander Technique (NASTAT), teaches Voice, Contact Improvisation and Group Process.

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Ilka Fanni Szilagyi --- The Vehicle of the Senses
July 3, 3:15

The Vehicle of the Senses So, we have an Idea about the senses. And the sensations. We have a vocabulary to express what's happening in the body, mind and soul. But are we able to capture everything? Or are there other things to find beyond what's familiar? In this class we will explore our sensations and interpretations. Researching the thin line between sensual and sexual, find and articulate our boundaries and permissions, embrace and transform our judgments into vehicles that help us to get and give what we need and clearly communicate through movement, touch, sounding and speaking.

Ilka Fanni Szilagyi met contact improvisation in 1998 in Budapest, Hungary. She studied with numerous teachers from USA, Europe and Hungary. She's teaching since 2000. In her teaching, Ilka is focusing on effortless, playful movement, body-mind consciousness, and sense-opening luscious dances. Ilka performs CI, choreography and Improvisation. She performed with Brenton Cheng and Scott Wells & Dancers. She's a graduate of Moving On Center and besides dancing, she's a massage practitioner and somatic educator, offering bodywork and movement re-patterning sessions.

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Sharon Tomsky --- Contact ABCs
June 30, 1:00 pm

Contact ABCs Awareness, Being present, Connecting. Authenticity, Breathing, Curiosity. Action, Balance, Contact. Connecting with yourself & with a partner with deep listening, presence, respect, and curiosity.

Sharon Tomsky Sharon has been enthusiastically involved with Contact Improv since the late 1970s, and teaching CI since 1981. She is a co-founder of this Contact Festival and has been teaching at it since its inception in 1988, and was also an organizer for the first 3 years. Sharon also co-founded the California Harbin Contact Jam and co-organized and facilitated it for 18 years. She is a certified Feldenkrais and Anat Baniel Method practitioner and also works as an Occupational Therapist in the Bay Area. She lives in Richmond, CA with her adorable cat Yin-Yang.

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Shel Wagner Rasch --- Experiencing the Moment
June 30, 3:15 pm

Experiencing the Moment Bringing your truest you to the dance. How are you doing right now? How do you know?

Shel Wagner Rasch has been contact dancing since 1985 (Ha!) and she's still madly in love with it (Ha Ha!!). She has taught CI at UCLA since 1999 and performs contact, usually with Stefan Fabry, here and there now and again. Shel also has a private practice in Los Angeles as a Somatic Experiencing practitioner (trauma resolution therapy), Alexander Technique teacher, and Pilates Instructor.

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Tracy Vogel (Aaron Jessup) --- Begin Again
4-day Beginners Intensive
June 30, July 1, 2, 3, 9:30 am

Begin Again Each day we wake up to the opportunity of a new beginning. Sometimes you only get one chance to begin. In this intensive we will explore and cultivate the sweet nature of beginnings with CI. Come and learn how to build a strong foundation through skills development and adventuring so that you can fall in love with beginning again and again.

Tracy Vogel is currently in the most contact with mud and houses as a natural builder. She also teaches choreography and CI at Mendocino College. She is a former steering committee member and has a lot of gratitude for the 10 years of exploration at WCCIF.

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Andrew Wass --- Splitting the Infinite
July 1, 9:30 am

Splitting the Infinite There are an infinite number of ways two or more bodies can be in contact. By breaking that point of contact down into its basic elements, pivoting, rolling, sliding, and stillness, we will be able to examine each one in more depth and be able to see and expand our habits. Upon recombining pivoting, rolling, sliding, and stillness in the infinite number of ways possible, we will find new pathways within the dance.

Andrew Wass began dancing at UCSD. Influential teachers include Ray Chung, Andrew Harwood, and Nina Martin. Andrew has been a collective artist with Lower Left since 2000 and performed his own work in New York City, San Diego, the Bay Area and Berlin. Since moving to the Bay Area, he has worked with Scott Wells & Dancers and Jess Curtis/Gravity.

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Scott Wells --- Wrestling with Affection
July 2, 9:30 am

Wrestling with Affection We start with seeking the softest connective contact. Then we venture into wrestling accessing a wide range of feelings, play, and sensuality.
Introduction to techniques for safe and aggressive contact including soft
takedowns, resistance and collaboration. Safety, listening, ease and quick reflexes are emphasized for this style of contact improvisation.

Scott Wells discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation in 1981
shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. Scott has received choreographic awards in San Francisco, LA, , Europe and from the American Dance Festival. In 2004 he taught at festivals in Turkey, Toronto, in Vienna. In 2005 he taught his Jumping ? Flying workshop for SF Summer Festival July 11-15.

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Ali Woolwich --- Satisfaction: Getting, Giving, Defining, Refining
July 1, 3:15 pm

Satisfaction: Getting, Giving, Defining, Refining This class offers strategies and experiments you can use in jam space and/or choreography to make your dances more satisfying from partner to partner. Define, expand and be surprised by what you think a satisfying dance is. Find suppleness and lightness that feels good. Play with varying speed. Challenge assumptions about difference in size, ability, and strength. Use brief verbal requests to increase trust that will expand the dance (without a dance devolving into a discussion at the edge of the dancefloor). Can you have pleasure and interesting composition? Keep listening and being present while making some demands.

Ali Woolwich Ali Woolwich has been working in CI for 16 years, and directs HumilitySwim, a CI-based performance ensemble which has shown performance work throughout the Bay Area and Seattle. She has offered workshops for queer women since '96, has been a Guest Teacher at City College of San Francisco and hosted a weekly Ensemble Jam at Studio Valencia '01-'04. Currently she offers a quarterly fundamentals intensive, CI Square One at Studio Valencia and is a regular teacher of Bay Area CI class series at CounterPULSE, Temescal Arts Center, 8 th Street Studios, and Mariposa Studio. Her recent projects include 3 years as both Relocation Coordinator/Staff Technician for 848/CounterPULSE and Steering Committee member with West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival. She is currently in production with HumilitySwim on new live performance pieces to premiere in Spring 2006 and a solo-for-camera work, "52 Negotiations," to premiere in Winter 2006. For more info please go to: www.rodneyj.net/ali.

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