Contact Improvisation Class + Jam – San Francisco, CA

Contact Improvisation Class + Jam – San Francisco, CA

Don’t miss this upcoming event in San Francisco, CA. Happening on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at The Center SF. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

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 Merrick Jacob with live jam music by Will Magid 🙂

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:

MERRICK | teacher & 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/

WILL MAGID | musical artist. Embark on a journey of rhythm, vibrations, and dance by Will Magid – musician, composer, producer, and trumpet player known for his project Balkan Bump, and work in various genres of music, including jazz, electronic, and world music.

Will invites you to explore the marriage of movement, improvisation, and sound. Through the interplay of looped Trumpet, Kalimba, and percussion, each session unfurls as an authentic, improvised adventure, drawing from a rich blend of jazz, ambient, Eastern European, West African, and western classical influences.

As you move, Will Magid’s musical background and passion will unfold in real time, creating an improvised live score that resonates with the dance happening in the room. Allow this journey to be a dynamic exploration of expression through the universal language of dance, guided by rhythms, vibrations, and melodies.

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!

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Additional Details

Event ID - 1080769152629

Event Venue - The Center SF

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Event City - San Francisco

Event State - CA

 

Date And Time

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 07:00 PM (PST)
 

Venue

The Center SF
 

Location

548 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
 

Event Types

Class, Training, or WorkshopTheatre
 

Event Category

CaliforniaSan Francisco

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