End of Summer CI Fest
Join us for the End of Summer CI Fest over Labor Day weekend, August 30 - September 1, 2025 in Long Beach, California! Celebrate the end of summer with 3 full days of classes, snacks, and jams all day on the beautiful California State University Long Beach campus. We welcome improvisers, movers, and dancers of all backgrounds, and are pleased to host out-of-towners! Space is limited. Registration is open!
Rebecca Bone
Contact Improvisation Intensive
In Contact Improvisation gravity is our navigation system, compass and playing field. In this workshop we will practice tuning to the subtle sensation of gravity to deliberately play with this force and create more possibilities in our dancing.
Rahul Madanahalli
Following Listening
Immerse yourself in a playful study of following. Open your dancing impulses to the fullness of the listening body in this progressive exploration of a listening-centric contact improvisation practice.
Jess Humphrey
Re-Emergence Into Contact
Jess will use her expansive choreographic practice to invite us into contact improvising through playful, emergent strategies that utilize a composing awareness into alive and surprising improvising.
Armita Azizi
Bartenieff Fundamentals
Activate your body through gentle, focused movement in this Bartenieff Fundamentals warm-up. Enhance coordination, alignment, breath, and flow to build awareness and readiness for deeper physical exploration.
Ezra LeBank
Flight Strategies
Lofting bodies are exhilarating and concerning all at once. How do we strategize in a practice of not knowing to play on the edges with ease and awareness. We will explore situations and strategize our way into the air, over and over again.
Live Music
Saturday Evening Jam with Live Music
A musician will play improvisational music to accompany our dancing at the Saturday evening jam.
Land Acknowledgement
CSULB is located on the sacred site of Puvungna. We acknowledge that we are on the land of the Tongva/Gabrieleño and the Acjachemen/Juaneño Nations who have lived and continue to live here. We recognize the Tongva and Acjachemen Nations and their spiritual connection as the first stewards and the traditional caretakers of this land. We thank them for their strength, perseverance and resistance.
