Monthly Jam held in Ithaca, NY at the Ahimsa Yoga Center, located at 215 North Cayuga Street in the Dewitt Mall, directly opposite the entrance to Moosewood Restaurant. Use the exterior door facing the parking lot. Beginners are always welcome, bring a friend! Occasional classes and workshops are also offered.

A seasonal event for performers, dancers, sketch artists and musicians to jam, improvise, collaborate and get to know one another!

This is a unique opportunity to explore the combination of visual, motion-based and audio arts. As host, Green Space hopes to provide a relaxed environment for spontaneous, free expression and improvisation between the different forms while encouraging synergy amongst artists.

These sessions are open to artists, dancers, musicians and viewers alike.

$5 at the door

Friday, October 21st 2011 7:00-10:00 pm – Pumpkin Cheesecake

Friday, February 17th 2011 7:00-10:00 pm – Kind Actions at Random

Friday, May 11th 2012 7:00-10:00 pm – Birthday Party! / Everything Yellow!

Friday, July 13th 2012 7:00-10:00 pm – Fool’s Paradise

For each event we are including a theme based on different, unique celebrations that occur on that particular date. The theme will give a focus to the improvisation and sketches. Interpret them as you like!

(Themes subject to change. Stay tuned!)

Also. Artists should bring simple materials: non-messy, acoustic, easy to carry, etc.

Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
These weekly classes are open to people of all levels of movement experience, and are informed by the individual teaching artists. Teaching artists change every month so see www.movementresearch.org for details.

Here is the link to the video of the last recital.
http://youtu.be/JlJ3DSZHbaQ

This class will introduce students to understanding one’s own body and others through touch. We will focus on listening to other bodies and to softening the edges of our own body. We will explore the movements which are fundamental to our development, such as crawling, rolling, pushing, and pulling, to connect to the earth and to feel our center. We will also find ways to let go of self-control by leaning and sharing weight with others. We practice lots of contact in the lower level first and gradually building up to the higher level so that we feel more comfortable exploring and challenging. We will empower ourselves to go beyond the norm, to free ourselves from gravity, to learn to depart from the vertical position, to be upside down and to fly.

Teacher Bio
Kayoko Nakajima is Japanese, dancer, performing artist, musician and cat lover. She is a Laban Certified Movement Analyst, an ACE certified personal trainer, a certified Pilates instructor, and holds a BA in Dance from the University of North Texas. Her investigation of dance/movement started from many dance style: jazz, modern, ballet, flamenco, tap, Japanese dance in Japan and in the U.S.. After moving to New York City in 1996, she attended Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and become CMA ( Certified Movement Analyst ). At that time, she studied Contact Improvisation, Aikido, gymnastic, Body-Mind Centering, and releasing technique to expand her knowledge and understanding of movements which mind and body are strongly connected. Kayoko has studied and practiced improvisational dance and Contact Improvisation for over thirteen years with numerous teachers including K.J. Horms, Jeff Bliss,Ray Chung, Kirsti Simson. She has been practicing Contact Improvisation regularly attending jams in downtown, New York City. She performed in Tokyo, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, and Connecticut. Currently, she performs with Stochastic Ensemble and in duet projects with Fabrice Covelli.

The Open Movement Jam consistently draws 30 to 40 contact and non-contact movement improvisers and dance-friendly musicians, meeting absolutely all Monday evenings at the Greenwich House Nursery in the center of Greenwich Village, NYC. We are open to all sorts of movers — including those who may be trained in or trying out various dance forms, contact improv, theater, martial arts, yoga and other styles — and welcome participants with all sorts of physical capabilities. We continue to mix many out-of-town visitors and other newcomers with semi-regulars and regular participants, meeting in this enormous, beautiful space.

The jam and its predecessors have 40 years of continuous participation:
> Carrier Pigeon events of the 1960s (conceived by Kenneth King, still the most accomplished and supportive improviser around)
> Robert Wilson School of Byrds of the 1970s (from which more than a dozen of the collaborators still participate, including the great Christopher K.)
> Open Movement at PS 122 from the 1970s-90s (founded by Charles Dennis, who regularly contributes his creative energy and ideas) and
> The Jam at Judson Church 1999-2001 (founded by Bill Jacobson, who brought the jam to the center of the Village and participates whenever in town.)
> Open Movement Jam at the Children’s Aid Society 2001-2011.

Thank you to all who bring the wonderful energy that makes this event.

Weekly Contact Improvisation Jam from 1:30-4:30. Come anytime. Eden's Expressway, 537 Broadway (Between Prince & Spring) 4th floor, $5. All levels welcome.

All movers and shakers are cordially invited to dance to the sounds of the acoustic improv musicians at the Open Music Circle, now six years old! We meet regularly in Brooklyn and Manhattan. There is no structured agenda and no director. The musicians sit in a circle or semi-circle and start with silence. Then someone begins to play or sing or move. Then we watch, listen to each other and, when we want, begin to play, vocalize or move accordingly, and so it goes. Finally we end the evening with silence.

To attend, first sign up for free on www.meetup.com and then join the Circle at www.meetup.com/openmusiccircle and finally rsvp there for the particular gathering you wish to attend. For additional informat0on email openmusiccircle@earthlink.net.

There are usually one or two jams a month in Rochester, some at the Physikos Movement Studio, and some on the University of Rochester campus. All are welcome to attend!

is on hiatus at this time, but if you would like to call me, I might be able to gather a group of people for dancing while you are in town. Let me know: 1 518 833 1340. Sue