Friday the 23rd, CI jam ($5) from 7 to 10 pm
at UQAM, 840 Cherrier, studio 4110
Saturday during supper (5 to 7 pm) it will be possible to jam
(dance & instruments) in the studio downstairs, so bring your instruments!
Sunday, musical jam withBenoît Guillemette and John Hugues
After the jam on Sunday, it’ll be possible to access the pool
(with heated portion) from 7 to 8:30 pm. Details HERE
Looking for the help of 20 cooks, one apprentice head cook
(like a coordinator) and 5 volunteers for lunch service at the Jam: FULL
Volunteers / barter system / exchange for the annual jam: FULL
We’re still looking for 1 numbers for the Saturday evening
performance at the annual jam. Come register and give us a show! Details HERE
"Environment + Contact"
Credit: Nikki Carrera
A CI workshop for beginners with Neige Torrey Christenson
« Navigating the Kaleidoscope »
Open to all: beginners and those with a more advanced practice: DETAILS
Saturday and Sunday, warm-ups with our guest teachers Andrew Harwood and Jori Snell Biographies HERE
Note that master classes with Andrew Harwood
and Jori Snell will precede the jam, go from Monday November 19th to Friday the 23rd: INFO HERE
Credit : Gary Kurtz
AN EVENING OF DANCE with Charles Van Goidtsenhoven and Benoît Converset Biographies of musicians
Credit : M-C Lapointe
Price list
Early bird: Whole week-end: 70$
Single day: 40$
Saturday evening performance and musical jam: 10$
From November 15th to 23rd (midnight, online):
Whole week-end: 80$
Single day: 45$
Saturday evening performance and musical jam: 10$
November 24 and 25 (at the door, by cash or cheque) :
Whole week-end: 90$
Single day: 50$
Saturday evening performance and musical jam: 10$
The price includes all-day dancing, a light breakfast and lunch both days. Please bring your plate, cup and utensils.
The jam will be in the magnificient Jean-Pierre-Perreault building: Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique
2022 Sherbrooke Street East
Montreal, QC H2K 1B9
HOUSING:
If you need a place to stay, or if you have a place to offer please contact: hebergement@contactimpro.org
ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT PERFUME.
TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE ALLERGIC OR SENSITIVE TO SCENTS, please refrain from wearing perfume, essential oils, perfumed products for hair, etc. Also, please wear clothes that are free of chemicals such as fabric softeners, scented deodorant, etc. Let’s be mindful of this request to foster an environment accessible to everyone.
Bring your reusable dishes!
« If it’s not too complicated for you, please bring your reusable dishes and encourage everyone you meet to do the same. Gaia will be grateful to you. »
NEW: Jam Pool on Sunday 25 from 7 to 8:30 pm
This year we have again rented for our private use a rehab swimming pool that is heated and perfect for water contact dance, and an attached huge 15+ person hot tub for water massage. The pool will be available to us Sunday from 7 - 8:30 pm so bring your bathing suits, towels, Lock, soaps, sandales and goggles/snorkel mask .
Price : $5 and you can sign up at registration.
Centre de réadaptation Lucie-Bruneau
2295, Avenue Laurier Est, Montréal
Directions from Circuit-Est
Go out the door and turn right, at the next street (De Lorimier) turn left and go 7 blocks to Avenue Laurier, turn right 4 blocks to the dead end. Enter last door on the left.
NEW Activity for Friday evening November 23rd
07:00 pm to 10:00 pm: Open Jam (with playlist, $5 at the door for all.)
Location: Pavillon de danse de l’UQAM, Studio 4110
840 rue Cherrier, Mtl (Sherbrooke Metro)
Saturday, November 24th
08:30: Doors open for registration
09:00: Light breakfast
10:00 am: Opening circle
10:30 am: Warm-up with guest artists Andrew Harwood and Jori Snell
11:00 to 4:30 pm: Open Jam
12:30 to 2:15 pm: Lunch
02:30 to 04:00 pm: Contact improvisation workshop for beginners
with Neige Christenson in the studio downstairs.
05:00 pm: Dinner outside - Enjoy! New : The studio downstairs will be available to jam
(dance and jamming musically, bring your instruments)
07:00 pm : Doors open upstairs for performances
07:30 to 08:10 pm: Performances of the week’s intensive class participants
08:10 to 08:40 pm: Dancer performances (prepared in advance)
09:00 pm: Musical jam with Charles Van Goidtsenhoven and Benoît Converset
11:00 pm: Evening ends
Sunday November 25th
08:30 am: Doors open
09:00 am: Light breakfast
10:30 am: Warm up with guest artist Andrew Harwood and Jori Snell
11:00 to 04:00 pm: Open jam (with music starting at 2:30 PM)
12:30 to 02:30 pm: Lunch 02:30 pm: musical jam with Benoît Guillemette and John Hugues
04:00 pm: Closing circle
05:00 pm: Clean-up & leaving the building
There will be a pool event Sunday evening, after the jam.
Bring you bathing suit! More info will follow.
Jori Snell: is a physical performing & visual artist from Holland/Denmark (1972). She was educated at Institutet för Scenkonst (93) in Italy and Nordisk Teaterskole (98) in Denmark.
Since 1998 she works as a freelance performer/dancer, director and educator in Europe and South Africa, transforming her training in physical theatre, visual art, contact improvisation, martial arts and butoh-related approaches into a personal language.
Between 2008-2016, she single-handedly initiated and sustained the contact improvisation scene in Cape Town, South Africa, and taught theatre and dance in many contexts, institutions and universities (Drama & Dance Departments of Cape Town and Rhodes). Her solo-productions: ‘Very Short Stories..’, ‘Inua’ and ‘Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar’ have won several awards and international acclaim. In her performances and teaching she aims to bring alive an authentic expression in body, personality, object & space, moving between physical theatre and fairytales, dance and myth, poetry and the creation of magic visual pictures. Her inspiration in improvisation and contact improvisation has come from intensive work with Kirstie Simson, Bo Madvig, Lucia Walker, Nancy Stark Smith, Ray Chung and Andrew Harwood.
Contact Improv workshop for beginners with Neige Torrey Christenson
« Navigating the Kaleidoscope »
The practice of Contact Improvisation requires us to tune in to ourselves, our partners, and our environment. We learn to shift our attention effortlessly as needed, even at high speeds, to avoid collisions and to integrate new information as it arrives. In a big crowded jam like this one, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, or to wonder how to enter and navigate through the space in a way that feels grounded and honest. This class will give you some simple tools to center yourself, connect with your partner, increase awareness of your neighbors, and also feel yourself a part of the whole room’s beautifully shifting composition.
open-level class: For newcomers and those with more advanced practice.
Neige Torrey Christenson has enjoyed over 30 years of exploring, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation, supported and enriched by the practice of Authentic Movement, and the Work of Byron Katie.
She holds an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University, and is a graduate of the National Theater Institute and Smith College. She loves the way a Contact Improvisation duet can be a metaphor for human relationship and also be an abstract expression of life-force energy. Her teaching encourages opening the improvisational mind and body to full presence and connection with self and other. Performance and dance portraits can be found HERE. She offers private lessons and workshops. Her writings on the improvised life and our relationship to this earth have appeared in Contact Quarterly; The Sun magazine; Fire in the Womb: Mothers and Creativity; and Hope Beneath Our Feet: Restoring our Place in the Natural World.
Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November Centre Jean-Claude-Malépart (Metro Frontenac)
2633 Ontario East, Montreal Facilitated byValérie Sabbah, Stéphanie Gaudreau and Karen Nelson
