Teachers & Classes
Nita Little
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Keith Hennessy
Dancing as Political Healing
What is the healing potential of our dancing together and how is it always and already political? Prioritizing improvisation and collaboration, we will play with the possibilities of healing, politics, and dancing together.
I welcome your curiosity and concerns. What inspires you or prevents you from dancing more freely, especially with others? What activates or impedes your healing potential? How is your body responding to ongoing wars, political and ecological crises, personal and collective precarity, and embodied traumas? How can dancing be activated as anti-capitalism, as a new ethics of relationship, pleasure, and shared power? I will invite the prophetic ancestors of anarchism, Black feminism, and others into the studio to contextualize and renew our dancing.
Paul Singh
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Alicia Grayson
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Gretchen Spiro & Steven Homsher
The Listening Point
This 3-hour class will focus on the point of contact—that alive, shifting place where physical and energetic relationship begins. It’s where we listen, respond, and co-create in motion.
We’ll explore precision in the architecture of our bones, the fluid intelligence of attention, and the cohesion that arises when our mindbody is responsive and available. We will tune our bodies and our attention to be relational, active, and awake.
Our practice will center on the clarity of connection, exploring how it is shaped by presence, tone, and timing. We’ll follow the dance that unfolds when we listen deeply—to gravity, to touch, and to each other.
We will offer skills and exercises that support:
– Cultivating precision in the point of contact
– Riding and generating movement through the rolling point
– Training the body to be available for surprise and artistry
– Sensing structure and listening with our bones
– Moving from curiosity and openness, not control or expectation
Whether you are new to Contact or returning with years of practice, all are welcome in this shared research space . Come with your attention, your imagination, and your body just as it is. We’ll connect, explore, and dance a lot.