JANUARY JAM
WITH KELLYN JACKSON + MING TSAI | JANUARY 8 - 11
Join us this January for our annual JANUARY JAM
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This 4 day Contact Improvisation event centers ample focused jam time with daily classes offered by wonderful teacher/facilitators Ming Tsai + Kellyn Jackson.
Come connect during the heart of winter and warm your feet by the fire.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. On-site and commuter/drop in options available.
Dancing, sauna, cold plunges for the brave, rigor and relaxation...
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' OR 'Work Trade' when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, go to the Work Exchange.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Kellyn Jackson is a neuro-spicy dance artist and dance/movement therapist. She teaches a weekly contact improvisation class in sweet home Chicago, and spends most of her time dreaming about community, embodied paradoxes, and flying/falling. For the past two years she’s served as the teaching team coordinator for GLACIER (Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts’ Retreat). Some of her influential teachers include Nancy Stark Smith, Guru Suraj, Erica Kaufman, K.J. Holmes, Kathleen Rea, Kirstie Simson, Adrianna Michalska, and Margaret Paek.
Photo by Ken Buslay
Ming Tsai is a dancer and a multidisciplinary artist born in Taiwan, living in Montreal. He danced in jazz and performed in swing before fully transitioning to the research of Contact Improvisation.
He started facilitating and teaching contact improvisation after the social disruption of global pandemic. Since then, he has traveled and danced in contact communities in Israel, India, Thailand, Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America. He recently taught at California Contact Teacher Exchange, Georgia Silent Jam, Earthdance, Salt Spring Island Summer Festival, and other retreats and festivals around Quebec and Montreal.
Currently he is teaching and organizing the weekly jams in Montreal, the seasonal jam at Earthdance, and the annual Quebec Silent Jam. What interests him the most is the physical properties of force, the metaphor of psychosomatic imagery, and the philosophy of wellbeing through contact improvisation.Through traveling and sharing of insights and wisdom, he hopes to bring deeper listening, relational skills, and creativity into modern society’s everyday life.