Arizona Mountain Jam
$50 - Cash / Check / Online Payment Contact Improvisation Dance and Somatic Tuning class and jam. Nourish your body with an extensive warm-up, Contact Improvisation fundamentals and approaches, and a concluding jam to integrate the information. Contact improvisation is a form of dance that involves the exploration of the body in relationship to others by using the fundamentals of sharing weight and movement awareness. Explore and fine tune your physical movement with Helen Goodrum and Jay Ruby. Sunday October 22, 2023, 12pm - 4pm Sunrise Yoga Studio, 612 Miller Valley Road, Prescott, AZ 86301. Capacity is limited, please register in advance. REGISTRATION LINK About the teachers: Helen Goodrum has an embodied practice spanning over three decades and has performed around the globe expanding her knowledge and skill as a dancer, acrobatic stilter, aerialist and Rolfer. Helen has taught CI on stilts with The Carpetbag Brigade for the past decade and is a student of the Axis Syllabus International Research Community. When not dancing Helen has her own Rolfing Structural Integration business, Artful Healthcare in Prescott, Arizona. Jay Ruby is an actor and director with The Carpetbag Brigade where he has helped steward the research of Contact Improvisation with Acrobatic Stilts, Physical Theater and Butoh Dance. He has led community residencies and cross-cultural projects in Latin America, Europe, and Canada. He has studied CI with Nancy Stark Smith, Contraband, Steve Paxton, Kira Kirsch, Martin Keogh, Karl Frost and Cristina Crippa amongst others |