Spring Contact Jam
Join us for the Spring Contact Jam April 19-20, 2025 featuring Sara Shelton Mann in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California! The weekend features an Intensive with Sara, classes, and jamming all afternoon on the beautiful California State University Long Beach campus. We welcome improvisers, movers, and dancers of all backgrounds. Space is limited. Registration is open!
Sara Shelton Mann (San Francisco)
Moving Alchemy
Sara will teach the weekend intensive Saturday & Sunday before lunch. Sara's Moving Alchemy work builds on a lifetime of dance and movement research, and is not to be missed on this special visit to LA!
Clairey Evangelho (Oakland/LA)
Morning Class - The Ecology of a Dance
Drawing from Noguchi Taiso, neurophysiology, and ecological psychology, we will play with heightening the felt sensation of our own weight, increase our spatiality, and open more possibilities for ecologically responsive dancing.
Nhu Nguyen (San Diego)
Afternoon Jam Warm Up Class
Nhu will facilitate a warm up class that leads into the jam on Sunday afternoon.
Cheyenne Dunbar (Los Angeles)
Afternoon Jam Warm Up Class
Cheyenne will facilitate a warm up class that leads into the jam on Saturday afternoon.
Ezra LeBank (Los Angeles)
Morning Class - Dirt Work
Does the pelvis function as a primary axis in floor mobility? What is the relationship of the shoulders to a winding and unwinding pattern through the full body?
Jeff Ali (Long Beach)
Saturday Jam Live Music
Jeff will play improvisational ambient music to accompany our dancing at the Saturday afternoon 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.