W/ ALICIA GRAYSON   (one class on Tuesdays and one on Thursdays)

             Boulder Circus Center

             9-week series: Jan 12 - Mar 16 (no class 2/23)

             Boulder Circus Center

             9-week series: Jan 14 - Mar 18 (no class 2/25)

For those new to CI or for those who wish to deepen their embodiment of the fundamentals. Through a variety of solo, partner and group practices we will enhance  our physical, mental, perceptual and communication skills. Specifically, we will learn to initiate, follow and maintain the point of contact, assess and modulate tone, find  support through the structure of the body, share a central axis with our partner and give and receive weight with ease. We will become more comfortable with rolling,  falling, balancing on any part of the body and moving in and out of the floor alone and with a partner. We will train the mind in improvisation; to be acutely aware and  responsive yet unattached to any particular outcome. We will expand our ability to listen and respond through touch and become more adept at  listening to self, to our  partner and the relationship between the two. We practice these skills in an environment that honors our physical, emotional and mental boundaries...and invites their  expansion.  In contact improvisation we discover the magic that happens as two (or more) people play with their creative minds and hearts and the physics of two  bodies in motion.  

             W/ ALICIA GRAYSON & GREG BURDULIS

             Boulder Circus Center

             9-week series: Jan 12 - Mar 16 (no class 2/23)

For those with significant CI experience and who have  embodied the CI fundamentals.  Experience with meditation is helpful but not necessary. This class incorporates a new way to expand and vitalize our dancing.  With meditation instruction we enhance our ability to care for ourselves, open to greater levels of subtlety, and refine how we use our mental and physical energy.  Cultivating the classic meditation skills of concentration, mindfulness, right effort and metta we create an optimal environment for learning, creativity and connection to self and others.  With this foundation we will hone our CI skills so we can move through spherical space with greater fluency, delight and expression. We will fine tune the skills of modulating tone, organizing our bodies efficiently, going off balance, playing with  inversions, using momentum, and giving and receiving support from any direction.  

             W/ JOE STOLLER

            Studio Be

            8-week series: Jan 14 - Mar 4

For those with significant CI experience and who have embodied the fundamentals. Its 11:13 AM on Sunday morning, do you know where your center of gravity is? Does it matter? In these classes we will alternate between exploring classical CI interests in the physics of movement and divergent material based on intentionality,  energetic and physical anatomy, and somatic states. In the physics part we will practice creating and sensing: friction, force, tensegrity, momentum, gravity, fulcrum, center of gravity and other physical principles. Clarifying our dynamic “physical” situation and options will expand our possibilities for movement and suspension in space. In the other part we will continue with what I have been calling the “bodywork score,” studying and engaging specific anatomical structures, exploring the embodiment of East Asian energetic anatomy, and other state based material. 

            W/ ALICIA GRAYSON & GREG BURDULIS

            Pearl St Studio

            9-week series: Jan 10 - Mar 14 (no class 2/21)

This class meets right before the Sunday CI lab so it is a great physical and mental warm up for dancing.  We will use principles and exercises from yoga, pilates and other disciplines that are uniquely adapted to prepare our bodies and minds for CI.  We will give particular attention to strengthening the core and helping integrate our bodies around the core so that we are able to dance with a larger palate of options including greater ease and grace.   One of the important benefits of a strong core and agile body is the increased ability to care for ourselves and avoid injury.  While this is mostly solo work, there will be some partnering exercises. 

Alicia Grayson - all classes except Joe’s Thursday class

303 653 3969     aliciaggrayson@gmail.com

    $117 for any 9-week 1.5 hr series w/ Alicia  Postmarked by 1/5/10 

    $126 for any 9-week 1.5 hr series w/ Alicia  Postmarked after 1/5/10

    $17 drop-in fee all classes except core conditioning

    $54 for 9-week core conditioning series

    $8 drop-in fee for core conditioning

     Mail check to:  Alicia Grayson   155 Cumberland Gap Rd  Nederland, CO 80466

Joe Stoller  - Thursday Intermediate/Advanced Class

720 570 6606      stoller.joe@gmail.com

    $104 for 8-week series w/ Joe  Postmarked by 1/5/10

    $112 for 8-week series w/ Joe  Postmarked after 1/5/10

    $17 drop-in fee

 Mail check to: Joe Stoller     764 Sunshine Canyon Dr.  Boulder, CO   80302

Make ups - if you miss a class you can make it up in any other class offered during the current session.  Sunday classes count as 1/2

If cost is an issue please contact us to discuss options.