Contact Impro Music Jam - In the Park!

About this event

The sun is inviting us outside, so we follow! This Wednesday we dance outside in Rembrandtpark, starting with a communal potluck! This is the exact location:
https://goo.gl/maps/6RWYeaRKc9wG42gBA





## Contact Improvisation: The joyful art of falling and rising together.

This is a grounding and embodying experience, which helps mind and body come together in a playful manner. Through giving, and taking weight, rolling on the ground and eachother, we learn to move in surprising and fun ways. Dancing CI can feel like a combination of getting a massage, acrobatics, surfing, dancing, andd… flying?

CI is a movement practice that helps us break down habitual movement patterns, and instead create room for new and exciting ways to move, dance and play. It is a way for us to be uniquely and unboundedly creative.


## Guided warm-up with Johannes

I will guide us into our bodies and invite spaciousness and curiousity into our beings. Allowing us to begin the jam from a more embodied, present and playful space.


## Program
- 18.00 -19-00 potluck
- 19.00-20.00 facilitated introduction, starting with an opening circle
- 20.00-21.45 free jam
- 21.45 closing circle
- 22.00 goin' home

>> Feel free to bring an instrument with you, we will create our own life music together! I will bring my cello!


## For you?
- You want to be more in the body
- You like to play
- You like to explore new ways to move
- Contact makes you happy (and perhaps shy?)
- Especially for you if you are curious but also a bit afraid
- And for all of us who just can't get enough of somatic research through dancing!

For all movers, beginning or advanced. You don’t have to have the “skills” to dance contact improvisation.


## Contribution
This Jam will be donation based. Donations are voluntary and very much appreciated, recommended donation between € 10-20. By contributing you support the continuation and growth of this jam and community.


## Finally
CI can be seen as a form of art, it is about body research, and play, in a non-sexual way. Although those feelings are super welcome to rise and fall, we are not engaging in them. If your intention is to "pick up" or hookup: this is not the place my dear.


## About Johannes
Johannes Karst is a musician, interdisciplinary performer, composer and facilitator. He creates spaces for (somatic) movement and improvisation that allow authentic connections with oneself and others to unfold. Imagination, care and vulnerability are essential languages in his art and teachings.



With these jams we hope to bring more people in touch with the wonderful practice of contact improvisation. As it is greatly transforming the way I see and experience life, I wish it can do the same for you.