Contact Improvisation is a partnering dance form which arises from the communication between bodies through touch. The technique focuses on giving and supporting weight, and coordinating with gravity and momentum, to create spontaneous relational dances. The emergent nature of this dance form challenges dancers to listen and adapt to another’s physical impulses, states, and creative impulses while tracking their own sensations through the use of interoception, exteroception and proprioception.

Contact improvisation is both a come-as-you-are practice (meaning anyone can join) and a skill-based practice (why people keep coming back). It's been called an "art-sport" and "exercise-massage".

Location: 115 Wooster, 2nd floor (ring Dance Studio)
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $20 via eventbrite or exact cash/venmo at the door 
3-class series (take one or all) taught by Gabrielle Revlock.

Gabrielle Revlock is a creator, performer, improviser, collaborator, and educator. She is a New York City Bessie Award-winning choreographer and has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation (CI) for over 20 years. Her research on therapeutic touch and movement is published in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 and has been presented at various conferences including CI@50, the Embodiment Conference, Dance & Somatics Conference and the Future of CI Conference. As a CI teacher, recent teaching engagements include the Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam, Montreal Annual Jam pre-festival, DNE Dance Camp, The School for Contemporary Dance & Though, Soho Contact Improv Collective, Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival and Earthdance. This summer she will be teaching at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam in Berkeley, CA and Brinca Galicia Contact Festival in Spain. As a dancer, Gabrielle has performed for Lucinda Childs, Makini (jumatatu m. poe), Susan Rethorst, David Gordon, Bebe Miller & Angie Hauser, Christopher Williams, Alex Davis, Vicky Shick, Bill Young, Almanac Dance Circus Theater, Jane Comfort, and Susan Marshall. Revlock holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College. To learn more about her creative projects, visit GabrielleRevlock.com

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