Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November Centre Jean-Claude-Malépart (Metro Frontenac)
2633 Ontario East, Montreal Facilitated byValérie Sabbah, Stéphanie Gaudreau and Karen Nelson
Registrations on the Zeffy website: (Coming from September 15)
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
Activities :
🔸 Warm-up guided by Karen Nelson
🔸 Aquacontact: Friday evening
🔸 Saturday evening performance evening: special presentation from the research group on CI composition.
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
Aquacontact courses in the pool
7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Arrival, bring swimsuit, towel, glasses, pince-nez and padlock.
7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.: Classes
10 p.m.: Departure
SATURDAY November 2, 2024
9:00 a.m.: Arrival. Validate your registration with reception
9:45 a.m.: Opening circle
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Warm-up facilitated by our guest Master Karen Nelson & JAM
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
5:00 p.m.: Dinner outside… (see our list of restaurants at reception)
7:00 p.m.: Doors open
7:45 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.: Performances
8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.: Silent JAM
10:30 p.m.: Departure
SUNDAY November 3, 2024
9:00 a.m.: Arrival. Validate your registration at reception, personal warm-up
10:30 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
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.
Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd November Centre Jean-Claude-Malépart (Metro Frontenac)
2633 Ontario East, Montreal Facilitated byValérie Sabbah, Stéphanie Gaudreau and Karen Nelson
