Friday 1st Asthanga Studio Montreal : 372 Ste-Catherine West (studio 118, 1st Floor)
Place des Arts metro station
Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd November Centre Jean-Claude-Malépart (Metro Frontenac)
2633 Ontario East, Montreal Facilitated byValérie Sabbah, Stéphanie Gaudreau and Karen Nelson
This year we have the privilege of welcoming back Karen Nelson. It was in November 2013 that we were able to experience her teaching.
She is part of the first generations of dancers who contributed to the development of Contact Improvisation in the 1970s.
It’s an honor to have her with us for the ANNUAL MTL JAM and for this years’ INTENSIVE WORKSHOP.
We invite all dancers of all experience levels to participate in an intensive week of training, preceding the annual jam, to build your Contact body:info here
Credit: Gary Kurtz
ESSENCE
Contact Improvisation - Return to the origin - Foundations - Steve Paxton - Nancy Stark Smith- Infinite gratitude - Meaning - Perceptions - Small Dance - Embody! - Art - Rhythm -
State of curiosity - Simplicity - State of dance - Joyful sparks!
This year, we aim to honor the depth of the practice by inviting you to an inner journey, exploring the foundations of Contact Improvisation. We aspire for each participant to become an active co-creator, preparing in advance to make this weekend a collective work focused on the very essence of this art form.
Everyone is invited to engage fully and take responsibility for the space we will share together.
Credit: Bill Arnold
Open to all: Whether you are a novice or an experienced practitioner of Contact Improvisation, you are all warmly invited to dive into the embodied experience of this weekend.
ANNUAL JAM PRICING (Meals included except dinner)
EARLY BIRD PRICE online until October 1, 2024 – 11:59 p.m.:
🔸 $110 full annual jam Friday evening to Sunday
🔸 $105 Saturday and Sunday only
🔸 Bipoc, visible minorities, people of color, etc…
$80 full annual JAM
REGULAR PRICE online from October 2:
🔸 $130 full annual jam Friday evening to Sunday
🔸 $125 Saturday and Sunday only
🔸 Bipoc, visible minorities, people of color, etc…
$100 full annual JAM
A LA CARTE PRICE: We invite you to pay online.
🔸$10 Friday evening aqua-contact
🔸 $65 Saturday all day WITH the evening
🔸 $55 Saturday all day WITHOUT the evening
🔸 $55 Sunday all day
🔸 $20 only Saturday evening: show and JAM (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
AT THE DOOR (cash only):
🔸 $140 full annual JAM Friday evening to Sunday
🔸 $135 Saturday and Sunday only
🔸 $75 Saturday all day WITH the evening
🔸 $65 Saturday all day WITHOUT the evening
🔸 $65 Sunday all day
🔸 $15 Friday evening
🔸 $25 only Saturday evening: show and JAM (7 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
ADDRESS :
Center Jean-Claude-Malépart (a stone’s throw from the Frontenac metro station)
2633 Ontario East
Montreal, Qc H2K 1W8
ACCOMMODATION:
If you are looking for or offering space for accommodation, a Facebook page will be online shortly. In the meantime, contact the accommodation manager at annueljam@contactimpro.org
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY November 1, 2024 At Asthanga Studio Montreal
7:15 p.m.: Arriving energetically
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: SLOW-MO-JAM-FLOW with Karen Nelson
🔸 FREE ENTRY
🔸 Guided introduction by our intensive workshop guest, Karen Nelson followed by a jam.
🔸 A CHILL moment to "tune in together" in preparation for the Annual Jam.
🔸 An opportunity to connect and build bridges between the participants of the intensive workshop and those arriving for the Annual Jam.
10 p.m.: Departure
SATURDAY November 2, 2024
8:30 a.m. Arrival and validate your registration at CHECK-IN desk
8:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet begins
9:00 a.m. to 9:40 p.m.: Tuning Collective activity
9:43 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Opening of the dance space & JAM: "Tuning in - Essence"
Facilitated by Valérie Sabbah, Stéphanie Gaudreau, and our guest Karen Nelson!
12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.: Dinner
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Warm-up facilitated by our guest Master Karen Nelson & JAM
Access to the pool for open swim
4:00 p.m.: Access to the pool for open swim
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: AQUA-CONTACT Facilitated by Vincent Nicholas Provencher & Shanthi Minor
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.: Dinner outside… (see our list of restaurants at reception)
7:00 p.m.: Doors open. Validate your registration at reception
7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.: Time to get dressed up (EVERYONE!) and to finalize the details of your performance, if so.
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.: The evening will be facilitated by DENA Davida ! Performances from Karen Nelson’s research group, performances in-situ & JAM “Tuning In/Out”
10:30 p.m.: End
🔸 An interactive, dynamic, sensitive, and costumed evening
🔸 BRING YOUR COSTUMES!!!!
10:30 p.m.: Departure
SUNDAY November 3, 2024
8:30 a.m. Arrival and validate your registration at CHECK-IN desk
8:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet begins
9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m.: Physical and energetic arrival
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Warm-up facilitated by our guest Master Karen Nelson & JAM
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Dinner
2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.: JAM supported by live musicians - Damaris Baker &
Christian Brun del Re "Infinite Parachute & the Grotesque"
4:00 p.m.: Closing circle
5:00 p.m.: Departure
Biography
Biography of Karen Nelson
Karen Nelson: (she/her/chuki) playfully draws on dance improvisation and spiritual practice. As an explorer-collaborator, teacher, creator, touring performer, author/contributor to Dancing with Dharma and Contact Quarterly, she has been a mutator of the Contact Improvisation form since 1977.
She co-founded the mixed-ability experiences Dance Ability and Diverse Dance Research Retreat. and integrates Material for the Spine (Steve Paxton) and Tuning Scores (Lisa Nelson/Image Lab) into her physical sensation-based approach to dance, while investigating dominant cultural narratives and reversing these fictions in her own embodiment. and a wider community.
