Contact Improvisation Class + Jam

Contact Improvisation Class + Jam at The Center SF

Join The Center SF for a playful evening of contact improvisation. Class will be from 7:30-9pm and then will flow directly into a jam until 10:30pm. In class, we’ll explore themes of weight-sharing, counterbalancing, signaling, listening, and everything in-between. The jam that follows is an opportunity to continue researching your movement & relational curiosities that sparked from class. First-timers and experienced dancers are all very welcome! Today's class will be taught by Scott Wells with live jam music by Catie Riggs :)

CI classes at The Center will be offered by a rotating mix of teachers every 2nd & 4th Wednesday evening. Check the calendar here for more contact improv across the bay area and to see who's teaching.

teacher/musical artist/host bios:

SCOTT | teacher. Scott Wells has been practicing contact improv since 1981, has an MFA in Dance, and directs an award-winning dance company in San Francisco. Scott has been teaching and performing in Europe for the last 25 years in festivals in Moscow, Barcelona, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Zagreb, Bucharest and Ankara to name a few. He is long-term practitioner of Alexander Technique , BMC and other counseling and bodywork practices. His current passions are eyebody practice, moving from the organs and contact improvisation http://scottwellsdance.com/

CATIE | musical artist. Catie Riggs is an artist, musician, and acoustician based in San Francisco. As a dancer of lindy, blues, and fusion, she loves exploring different styles of music and movement. Her live music is based in improvisation, and experiments with guitar and keyboard in a range of contemplative moods, from melodic and meandering, to delirious dins.

MERRICK | evening host. Merrick Jacob is a lover of movement, continuously in awe of the body and its potential for unique expression, creativity, & authentic connection. Influenced by her practices of figure skating, acroyoga, hand balancing, and contact improvisation, she guides playful movement experiences as an opportunity for deep listening, exploration, and co-creation. She is a certified acroyoga instructor with AcroRevolution & AcroYoga Montréal. Merrick studied a variety of somatic movement therapy modalities with Dynamic Embodiment & The Moving On Center: School of Participatory Arts & Somatic Research, focusing on BodyMind Centering & Laban Movement Analysis. For more contact improvisation with Merrick, she hosts every 2nd & 4th Wednesday evening at The Center SF. Say hi to her here: https://merrickjacob.com/

Want to read more about CI? Here’s a good resource to start, and please make sure to review our class agreements before attending.

Looking forward to dancing & jamming together!