We will begin this years festival with the annual Ponderosa Contact Jam with special guest Nancy Stark Smith leading the global underscore, followed by 3 different blocks of intensive workshop weeks of various guest teachers such as Keith Hennessy, Jonathon Burrows, K.j. Holmes, Bruno Caverna, Offering the art of improvisation, performance making and embodied multi-media techniques. Our Retreat & Training week is open to all levels and we have another year to research and celebrate the form of contact improvisation with ci38.