Kriss Rulifson

Facilitator

Water Contact Jam

Offering Description

Facilitated by Kriss Rulifson, this beginner-friendly aquatic movement jam offers an introduction to contact improvisation in warm water. Participants will explore buoyancy, gravity, water resistance, and connection through guided individual and group exercises, discovering how the water can become a dance partner. The session invites movers of all experience levels to relax into movement, play, and exploration before transitioning into a facilitated open jam with guidelines that support safety, consent, and autonomy.

Biography

Kriss Rulifson is a dancer, interdisciplinary maker, facilitator, and advocate for survivors of domestic violence. They are enamored with dancing with gravity in disorienting situations and bridging their contact improvisation practice with vertical dance, aquatic dance, and club dance.

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