west coast contact improvisation JAM
Emily Jones
Single Class Teacher
Class Description
Contact Improvisation is a practice of cultivating intuition. We refine our ability to sense subtle shifts of weight, track a partner’s orientation in space, and expand our proprioceptive awareness, while also honing our interoception — our ability to feel and listen to our internal experience, including desires, needs, and boundaries. Through physical, energetic, and verbal modes of communication, we continuously offer and receive information with the people we are dancing with, opening pathways to more expansive and satisfying dances. This class invites attunement through touch: learning how to offer support, receive information, and respond with care.
Biography
Emily Jones is a dancer, choreographer, movement educator, and bodyworker based in Portland, Oregon. Her interdisciplinary practice centers embodied learning, somatic research, collaboration, and community care. She is part of a long-term collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, creating work across dance, video, sound, sculpture, and writing, presented nationally. Emily has performed with numerous artists in Portland and the Bay Area. She organizes events, facilitates jams, and performs with the Queer Contact Improvisation Cohort in Portland. Emily is a certified Axis Syllabus teacher offering classes from this lens locally and beyond.