FALL JAM
OCTOBER 15 - 18
Classic Thursday-Sunday Seasonal Contact Improvisation Jam at The Field Center!
Classes, labs, and open jams facilitated by our very own staff!
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. Indoor sleeping options, and camping options.
Dancing, sunbathing, swimming, eating food fresh from our garden, sauna, rigor and relaxation...
This year, we invite you to stay through Monday for a special Post-Jam Lab facilitated by
the incredible Alessandro Rivellino from Brazil!
More information on the Post-Jam Lab HERE
Fall Jam Basic Schedule (Subject to change)
Thursday
Arrivals
Dinner
Opening circle + Jam
Friday
Morning Practice / Silent Morning
Breakfast
Morning Class
Lunch
Afternoon Class
Dinner
Jam
Saturday
Morning Practice / Silent Morning
Breakfast
Morning Jam
Lunch
Afternoon Class
Dinner
Jam
Sunday
Morning practice
Breakfast
Closing Jam
Closing Circle
Lunch + Final Clean
Departures (for those not staying through Monday)
Leftover Dinner
Open evening
Monday
Breakfast
Alessandro workshop session 1
Lunch
Alessandro workshop session 2
Departures
REGISTER HERE
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' ticket OR 'Work Trade' ticket when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, please see Work Exchange.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
REFUND POLICY: Full refunds available up to 10 days prior to the event. Please inform us if you cannot attend an event up to 10 days prior [including Scholars and Work Traders]! Refunds within the 10 days prior to the event may be available on a case-by case basis, please reach out to communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Lilianna Kane is an artist and chef, primarily invested in the dance practice of Contact Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions, paying attention, patience and peace. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally, as well as producing and organizing international CI gatherings and intensives. She is currently the head chef and a CI curator at The Field Center (center for performance, dance and multimedia art) in Bellows Falls, VT) where she has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. She is deeply indebted and inspired by all of her teachers, dance partners, and dance ancestors, who continually influence her practice
Photo by Elias Hill
Anya Smolnikova (b. Minsk, Belarus) is an artist and educator living and working in Vermont. Her art practice spans painting, drawing, performance, installation, dance and community actions. Smolnikova has exhibited internationally in Armenia at HAYP; in Los Angeles at LAST Projects; in Chicago at Mana Contemporary, Heaven Gallery, Links Halls, No Nation, and 6018 North; in Massachusetts at the Boston Boston Center for the Arts, Piano Craft Guild, MUSA Collective, Dorchester Art Projects and Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown. Collaborations include projects with Anastasia Tinari, FAR x WIDE, Seeding Sovereignty among others. Teaching includes Northwestern University; Northwestern Prison Education Program; Chicago Art Partnerships in Education; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Brookline, Cambridge and Boston Centers for Adult Education; The Field Center and The Putney School in Vermont among others. Smolnikova has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, Boston Center for the Arts, Groundworks Space in Hudson Valley, and holds an MFA from Northwestern University in Chicago. She lives at The Field Center in Vermont, where she is a founding member, Director of Operations, Curator and Faculty.
Photo by Elias Hill
Jared Williams is a visual artist, dance-improvisor and dance-arts curator primarily interested in ideas of wilderness, multiplicity, emergent structure and futurity. He has been focused exclusively on programming and curating dance since 2014 with a focus on experimental performance and somatic dance practices.
He was the co-founder, director and lead curator for Lion’s Jaw Festival, a boston-based annual performance and dance festival, housed at both Green Street Studios and MIT, that ran from 2016-2020.
Jared is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts-unceded territory of the Nonantum and Massachusett. He is a father and a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.
Photo by Lilianna Kane