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ONGOING UK CLASSES AND JAMS


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Birmingham

we have no current listings for CI events in Birmingham, contact DanceXchange  or Polly Hudson
DanceXchange
Birmingham Hippodrome
Thorp Street
Birmingham
B5 4TB



 
Polly Hudson
For more information call 0121 689 3170 or email Cat Boffy  cat.boffy@dancexchange.org.uk 
or Polly Hudson
hudsonpolly@hotmail.com


Brighton

Contact Improvisation  Jams 
Guided warm up and then free jamming. All levels welcome!

Warm up teachers include: Charlie Morrissey, Caroline Waters, Paul Harrington, & Tamar Daly
For more info contact 
 Brighton Ki Centre , Ground Floor Studio, 12 Queen Square, Brighton, BN1 3FD. (Near the Clock Tower & at the top right corner of the square) The dojo has a padded floor.
2nd Sunday of the Month
1pm-3.30pm 
£5 per Jam
Ian 07815 906502 lawtonian(at)btinternet.com
Facebook group ‘Brighton Contact Improvisation’
https://www.facebook.com/groups/126395783090/ 

Bristol        
http://contactdance.co.uk 

beginner CI Julia Clarke
With partners and in groups Contact is a shared dance experience. Technical exercises support exploration of the form. Sessions contrast wild energy with meditative stillness. Come along and revel in the unexpected and limitless dialogue of improvisation, both in silence and with music.
Bristol Community Dance Centre
Jacobs Wells Road, Hotwells
Bristol
BS8 1DX
United Kingdom
Date(s) & Time(s): 8 May 2013 from 6:15 PM to 7:15 PM


Price: £4.50 (£4 conc)
Contact Julia on 07986 961809 for more info.

Sunday Class and Jam
This Jam will be preceded by a Warm-up class. 
The jam provides an opportunity to explore and integrate techniques you have learnt, and to find your own routes into dancing.
Live musicians will improvise with the dancing at some jams.
DMAC (4th Floor), 
Hamilton House
80 Stokes Croft -
Bristol
 
Sundays, ongoing
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

£5 (£8 with Warm-up Class)

 
For more information:
 Agnieszka 07871 455025 
 


Coventry

Class into a Jam
Taught class/intro leading into open jam - all levels of experience

Guest musicians for some sessions

 
The Bubble Chamber - 8 City Arcade Coventry, CV1 3HX
Thursday Nights 7-9pm
Cost 
£4 per session
Oliver Scott
Artistic Director
Mercurial Dance Ltd
Studio 22 Canal Warehouse, Leicester Row, Coventry CV1 4LH
www.mercurialdance.co.uk
Tel: 02476631625
Mobile: 07884068108

Derry, Northern Ireland

 Weekly Contact Improvisation   
 One of Echo Echo's core practices, c
The classes have developed and a group has formed with various abilities and experience levels.The movement form is a key part of Echo Echo's dance style and is accessible to anyone with an interest in dance. It can help build strength and stability as well as challenge the imagination with it's improvisory feel.
Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company
13 Bishop Street
Derry- Londonderry
BT48 6PL
Northern Ireland

Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 28 7130 8883
Email: info@echoechodance.com

Thursday s
Time: 7pm- 9pm          
Costs: £5/ £3 concession

Steve Batts
info@echoechodance.com.028 7130 8883 or just come along.

Edinburgh

Class into Jamming

These classes offer an opportunity to learn and practice new and existing contact skills, develop awareness and body organisation, and explore spontaneity and freedom in improvisation and contact dance. The classes are devised in a way that is accessible to both beginners and more experienced contact dancers.
 Pilrig Church, 
1A Pilrig Street, 
Edinburgh EH6 5AH


 




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Saturdays
7-9 pm

3 March
10 March
17 March

cost £7

Merav Israel  mirabailos@yahoo.co.uk
07821 335 757

laNua - Movement and Improvisation
<http://www.lanua.org> 
 

Falmouth

 Falmouth Weekly Class & Jam

Weekly class and jam. Free to all and all are welcome. The first hour is a free class and then a 2 hour jam. 
 



University College Falmouth 
Studio B
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Richard  and Malaika Sarco-Thomas. 
www.contactfestivaldartington@gmail.com
Richard <littlfeet@hotmail.com>
Malaika <m.sarco_thomas@falmouth.ac.uk>

Phone 07817 990002.

Findhorn

there is no regular jam or class but events are announced through bodysurf scotland- see their website
Findhorn Universal Hall
Findhorn Foundation 
The Park
Findhorn, Scotland
IV36 3TZ
contact bodysurf scotland

info@bodysurfscotland.co.uk
www.bodysurfscotland.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/CIFindhorn

Glasgow

@TheGlasgowJam
New regular open improvisation jams in Glasgow 

Coordinated by Tom Pritchard and Penny Chivas in association with Dance House 

A regular improvisation jam in Glasgow, open to all wanting to explore, play and jam. Each jam will begin with a 30 minute led physical warm up by the designated facilitator and then the space will be offered as a space for cooperative exploration of improvisation in its myriad forms. 

They will take place on the middle (second) Friday and last Sunday of each month, plus an extra floating jam with guest teachers on various days and at various venues!

All at Kinning Park Complex (Upstairs Gym), opposite Kinning Park Tube. 
Upcoming jams:
Friday 15th February 6:30-9:30pm
Friday 15th March 6:30-9:30pm
Sunday 31st March 1:30-4:30pm

Participation costs £5 to cover space and teacher costs. 


For more information please contact me on thomas.j.pritchard@gmail.com For regular updates: 
Follow the twitter feed: @TheGlasgowJam
Or the Facebook group: The Glasgow Jam athttp://www.facebook.com/groups/493304847398335/members/

Leeds

Improvisation Exchange Leeds
This Contact Improvisation class will focus on developing sensitivity and strength, leading to playful and physical dancing. We will develop the skills needed to share weight whilst remaining safe and independent in the dance
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance
98 Chapeltown road
LeedsLS7 4BH
 Saturday 23rd June 
 (led by Daliah Touré)
Sunday 8th July (led by Riccardo Meninghini)
11am - 1pm - Class
1pm - 3pm - Jam
 
£6.50 / £5 
Open to all levels! 

improvexchangeleeds@gmail.com, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Improvisation-Exchange-Leeds/119258491468908?ref=ts
RachelDean racheljanedean@yahoo.co.uk  
http://racheljanedean.wordpress.com

Liverpool

LIVERPOOL CONTACT IMPROVISATION SUNDAYS
These 2 sessions are open and designed for people interested in movement and improvisation either as beginners or those with more experience.  
 
We have designed an hour’s lunch break between the class and the jam.  If you are just coming for the afternoon Jam it would be advisable to come a little earlier to warm up 
 
The Class will be taught by experienced Contact Improvisers who will offer skills for moving safely and efficiently, finding fluidity, energy and strength whilst dancing alone or with a partner.
 
The Jam offers opportunities to expand the dance in a more ‘open’ situation where the focus is on the dancing as opposed to the teaching. There will be a led introduction and ending to the Jam.  Live music may be an additional part of these sessions.  
 
The Bluecoat, 
School Lane,
Liverpool L1 3BX

We are situated in the centre of Liverpool, just behind Church Street, down Church Alley and in front of Liverpool ONE. You can enter the building via the front courtyard off School Lane, or through the garden at the back off College Lane.

http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
September 23rd      October 28th      November 25th
                
Class: 11am -12.30pm  
Jam:   1.30pm – 3pm


Cost:  Class £6/4 Jam £4/2.  Class and Jam £8/5
For further information contact::Liverpool Improvisation Collective: 
Mary Prestidge m.prestidge@blueyonder.co.uk
Jo Blowers joblowers@hotmail.com 

Manchester

No current classes/jams at the moment but soon to be started up- contact Katy Dymoke for more details
 
Old Trafford 
M16 9LU 
Sundays

Katy Dymoke 
180 Stamford St 
Old Trafford 
M16 9LU 
 touchkate@aol.com 
0161 8680509

Newcastle

Weekly Jam

Warm up with various teachers

We are warming up the winter evenings - come and join us! 

Come at any time and leave at any time.
Squires 023
The Garage
Northumbria University

Wednesdays during term time
Warm up 5:30pn onwards then open jamming possible until 8:30pm.


Cost: Free

Tamara 07755020369

Nottingham

Weekly drop-in session exploring various aspects of dance improvisation
These sessions can be enjoyed by adults of all abilities and backgrounds with loads or with no previous experience of dance.

The Centre for Yoga in Nottm, 4th Floor, 4 Castle Boulevard NG7 1FB- check website for any changes: strandlooper.yolasite.com
wednesdays 7.30-9
(space open from 7pm for self led warm up)

cost
£5/3 concessions
sessions are run by miriam keye with guest artists.
miriam  keye
strandlooper.yolasite.com www.strandlooper.org  www.transglobalduets.myzen.co.uk

Swansea

Open Class
Classes address opening and attuning the senses, fundamental weight sharing rolling lifting and falling for anyone with an interest in moving and all levels of dance and/or movement experience, regardless of age, physical background or (dis)ability. We will develop skills to take us into open jamming
Room TK220
Swansea Metropolitan University
Townhill Campus
Townhill Road SA20UT
Currently suspended...
Lucy May Constantini
lucymayconstantini.wordpress.com

+44 (0) 777 335 1812 www.underthetrident.blogspot.com
+44 (0) 777 335 1812

Totnes

Dartington Contact Improvisation Jams & Class

Warm-up/beginners class from 6-7pm then open Jam 7-9pm. 
 
Studio 6, Dartington Space (formally Lower Close) Dartington.
Tuesdays 6-9pm
 warm up 6-7pm then open Jam 7-9pm. Cost £3



For more information phone 
Tariq on 07923542522 or 
Noel on 07816603937

Facebook group: Dartington Contact Improvisation.

Winchester

CI Jam: facilitated by Suna Imre
 Open to all levels of movement experience, beginners welcome.Includes warm up and body awareness practices; learning basic structures, techniques and pathways within CI

Venue: Wessex Dance Academy, 21 St Pauls Hill, Winchester. (Just down the hill from The Railway Pub, next to blue house)

Parking: Free on street parking in allocated bays on surrounding roads. Railway Station Car Park, Stockbridge Road (£2)
Dates: Tueday 5th & 19th March, 9th & 23rd Apr, 7th & 21st May, 4th & 18th June, 2nd & 16th JulyTimes: 7pm-10pm / Cost: £5

 

Information & Booking:
Richard Parker ~ mail@activeartists.org.uk / 02380 554445 / 07769 901615
Suna Imre ~ sunaroffey@googlemail.com / 07528 392354:http://www.facebook.com/groups/193585614096839/
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