Contact Improv Sundays @ WildHeart
Every Other Sunday (alternating with the Kingston Jam)
4-5pm Contact Lab
5-6:30 Open Jam
BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward
Every Other Sunday (alternating with the Kingston Jam)
4-5pm Contact Lab
5-6:30 Open Jam
BYO dinner for a studio-floor picnic afterward
The ISSC seeks to develop Relational Intelligence and other transferable skills of Somatic Communication in dancers, affiliate researchers, and everyday humans. This Training Workshop is meant to instill skills for research within Somatic Communication and Improvisational Ensemble Practice, in the method established by the ISSC. Outcomes will include a deeper understanding of the potentials for Co-Creative Practices where new knowledge and data might emerge, as well as access to establishing CoLab research groups under the resource umbrella of the ISSC.
Join Neva Cockrell for a nourishing hour of opening, strengthening, and moving your body. This will also be a time for you to focus on yourself and the baby, and meet other pregnant people.
Connect to your creative spirit at Vocal Tapestry - a safe and fun space to weave together the principles of spontaneous composition, such as rhythm, melody, and dynamics. Each week, we will play games and learn practices that focus on a specific element of vocal improvisation to develop your awareness, skills, and confidence.
Rise & Shine with Niki (in-person or online)
8.30-9.20am Tuesday mornings (50 mins)
Kickstart your day with this class by working with your body & breath. A physical practice that focuses on strength, flexibility, breath and balance through static or linked poses, mandala flows, and challenging ‘peak pose’ flows to bring you into your bodies and onto your mats, leaving you blissfully energized and ready for your day. In-person or online.
$15-25 (BIPOC - pay what you can)
Authentic Movement is a contemplative dance practice where a mover explores the unconscious mind through self-directed, expressive movement while being witnessed with compassion and non-judgment. This relational practice of “seeing and being seen” fosters trust, self-awareness, and a deeper connection to one’s inner experience.
Yin-Restore with Niki (in-person or online)
6-7.30pm Wednesday evenings (90 mins)
A Yin/ Restorative practice that uses props & longer holding poses to stimulate the ‘relaxation response’. I aim to hold space for folks and guide them to play with their edge, release control and let gravity do the work. Join in-person or online. A link to the online class will be sent once you register.
$15-25 (BIPOC - pay what you can)
FREE Community Contemplate Practice (online)-A weekly 25-minute silent unguided space. Feel free to bring your own practice (sitting/ moving/ meditation/ writing/ journaling/ drawing etc.) along with any props to make yourself comfortable. We will start and end in silence. Join Zoom Meeting https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86265272473?pwd=tb2sIJus8oaUL4rsZ8LtprIlz7rf0k.1Meeting ID: 862 6527 2473Passcode: 0000No need to register, just show up.
Join Deep Listening® facilitators, Katie Down and Jane Rigler for this immersive, inclusive and fun 8-week series that offers specific Deep Listening® methods and practices cultivated by their mentor and friend, Pauline Oliveros.
All intelligence is collective intelligence.Michael LevinWith a focus on practices of physical attention developed from Contact Improv and explored in the Ensemble Dancing setting, this 35 minute dance driven project engages actions of trance in finding, organizing, and creating new modes of physical attention and communication – defining the human by our relational practices of […]
Join Neva Cockrell for a nourishing hour of opening, strengthening, and moving your body. This will also be a time for you to focus on yourself and the baby, and meet other pregnant people.
Connect to your creative spirit at Vocal Tapestry - a safe and fun space to weave together the principles of spontaneous composition, such as rhythm, melody, and dynamics. Each week, we will play games and learn practices that focus on a specific element of vocal improvisation to develop your awareness, skills, and confidence.
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