west coast contact improvisation JAM
Aramo Álvarez
Single Class Co-Teacher
Class Description
Pulsing Planetarium is a Contact Improvisation workshop that explores how bodies meet through heartbeat, ground, and place. We work with practices of touch, listening, weight, and shared pulse, tuning into the bioelectric fields of bodies and the Earth. Drawing on spirals, knots, and weave, we explore contact as a way to connect with land, ancestry, local histories and futures. The workshop is site-responsive and grounded in experiential momentum. We invite the presence of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s Cheje, welcoming interrelational biospheres.
Biography
Aramo Álvarez is a Spanish dancer-scholar based at UC Davis, California. They studied Contact Improvisation at FCIMadrid. We met at WcciJam 2025, where we began weaving shared questions around transdisciplinary relationalities in the biosphere—worlding, fiction, and the imaginarium. Drawing on kairos temporality, Andean weaving traditions, and local contact communities, we play with the bioelectrical fabric of planetary life, sensing how chaos organizes itself through shared pulse and connection.