wcciJAM

Dancing with Size Differences

Jeffrey Balinsky (Large) Co-Teaching with Leslie Castellano (Small). This class seeks to disrupt preconceived notions around size and reciprocation by offering skills, strategies, and pathways for navigating and utilizing size differences within a dance. In Contact Improvisation every combination of moving bodies provides unique opportunities. With the right mental frame searching these possibilities can be fascinating, joyous, and humbling. We will practice weight sharing, using space, and maintaining collaborative volition while questioning and provoking playful explorations of "normal roles".  

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About Jeffrey

Dancer, Yogi, Lover, Student, Builder, Teacher. A deep resounding voice. I play many games, but my favorite is Contact Improvisation. Synapsis trained in Eureka, California. Since 2016 I have hosted hundreds of jams, taught dozens of Contact Improvisation workshops, and led 1000+ yoga classes in Humboldt County, California. I travel regularly to Berkeley to jam. wcciJAM makes my heart sing. I endeavor to build joy and I orient by helping others. www.yogijeffrey.info

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About Leslie

Leslie Castellano has been engaged with the practice of contact improvisation for 20+ years. She works between spaces of poetics and physics, often using CI practice as a tool for researching ideas of curiosity, otherness, and physical presence. Leslie works in community, serving as city council representative in Eureka, California, engaging in organizations as strategies, and stewarding Synapsis, a performance and art space/project.