JUNE JAM
WITH JENNIFER HONG + CARMEN SERBER | JUNE 5 - 8
Classic Thursday-Sunday Contact/Collective Improvisation Jam at The Field Center with Jennifer Hong + Carmen Serber! Classes, labs, and open jams.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. Indoor sleeping options, and camping options.
Dancing, sunbathing, swimming, eating food fresh from our garden, sauna, rigor and relaxation...
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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
Photo by Robert Gomez Hernandez
Jennifer Hong (洪慧珍) BA in Chinese, Reed College Portland, OR, 2000. MFA in experimental choreography, UC Riverside, 2020. She has danced with many choreographers in Portland and Los Angeles: Minh Tran + Co, Laurel Jenkins, Rashaun + Silas, and Rosanna Tavarez, among many others. Major influences include Anna Halprin and Frey Faust, founder of The Axis Syllabus©. An initiated student of the Teacher/Wong Loh Sin See 黃老先師 of the Chee Choong 慈忠Temple in Malaysia, a Daoist/Confucian/Buddhist practice, she synthesizes spiritual, artistic, and scientific elements into her work and life. She co-facilitates the Santa Monica Contact Improv Jam and has taught CI and dance as a guest lecturer at UCLA, CalArts, CSULA, USC Gloria Kaufman, Middlebury, and UC Riverside.
Carmen Serber: I teach dance because I love dancing and because I want to share that. I teach because I love to learn in community and believe in the infinite potential of exploring movement together. I teach dance because probably nothing else kept me more engaged and intrigued about life and guided me toward the places that I needed to look at. I teach because I had a hard time in many dance classes just because I couldn’t remember the freaking phrase! I want to create an environment where every-body can feel welcome, learn and play with presented material and apply it in their own dance practice. I am annoyed about ideologies that preach what is the right way of moving and I strive to offer something different.
In the last 25 years I have been exploring and deepening my practice of embodiment. Extensive studies in perspectives of anatomy and movement practices that are not limited by this study are relevant for my offerings. I am interested in investigating embodied attention within improvisational movement practices which are both creative and relational. My teaching is shaped from my longtime study of the Axis Syllabus and Contact Improvisation, from my work as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist, the exquisite exploration of the subtle realm of the body and my longtime practice and study of contemplative and improvisational dance scores.