The 14th Annual
(2010)
Moab Jam

Dancing
Inspiration
Joy
Friendship
Nourishment
Support
Nature
Space

Angie Hauser and Chris Aiken Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser
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May 2010

at the Moab Jam & Workshop...

Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser

The Moab Jam and Workshop are organized by Todd Paulsmeyer (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Gretchen Spiro (Boulder, Colorado).

Registration on this website opens at noon Mountain Time on Sunday, February 14, 2010. Click here make sure that your receive email registration reminders. NOTE: The workshop and jam fill very fast.
   
Workshop:

Saturday May 22 to Wednesday May 26, 2010
Advanced Level Contact Improvisation Workshop with Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser
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Jam:

Thursday May 27 to Monday May 31, 2010 (ends Memorial Day)
All Levels (including complete beginners) Featuring Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser and other inspiring jam hosts (Alicia Grayson, Brad Stoller, Steve Homsher, and others TBD) as resident teachers, guides and facilitators.
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Post-Jam Campout:

Begins May 31, 2010 (after the Jam) - Ends when you are done.
After the Jam, we have a tradition of spending time in the beautiful Southwest desert camping and exploring. The Campout afterwards is truly a wonderful exprience, not to be missed. Everyone should experience the unexpected discoveries that come from exploring the outdoors with a group of Contact Improv dancers. As a group we invent and participate in some incredible adventures that can only happen in the wilderness completely free from the restraints of the rest of the world. If you have the time, please join in.
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In Contact Improvisation or Contact Improv (CI) dance, partners improvise their movement while maintaining a mutual point of contact. Each dancer responds to the momentum, direction, intention, weight, rise, fall, speed, roll and counterbalance (just to name a few qualities) of each other's movements, all while focusing on the ever changing mutual contact point. Developed by a community of dancers in 1972 including Steve Paxton, Nita Little, Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson, Daniel Lepkoff, and many others, the form quickly gained popularity and is now practiced throughout the world. Contact Improv is about maintaining complete awareness of the present moment while dancing in contact with another who is doing the same, and ranges from extremely acrobatic and high-flying to delicately soft and earth-grounded. Practicing CI increases a dancer's ability to maintain complete and unwavering awareness of their body and surroundings by virtue of its unpredictability and dynamic qualities. Besides all of that, it's really a lot of fun! To get a better idea of what it is all about, click here to watch a short video recorded at the Moab Jam in a new window or view some of the picture galleries and videos from past events.


For more information or contact Gretchen: (303) 545-9956 or Todd: (801) 467-8064

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