Calendar of Events

Class: 6:30-8:00PM (Beginning-Intermediate Level)
Instructor for May: Rajendra Serber

Jam: 8:00-11:30PM
$15 Single Class, $5 Single Jam, $18 for both
Passes: $15 for 4-Week Jam, $55 for 4-Week Class, $65 for 4-Week Class and Jam

The San Francisco Contact Improvisation Series takes place EVERY TUESDAY year-round at CounterPULSE. SF CI Series Class is sequential, but drop-ins are encouraged. The best learning experience comes from trying out the styles of at least 3 of our monthly teachers. CI deepens your flexibility, kinesthetic awareness, and choices for contemporary partnering. Explore the discipline and play of this dance form with both class study and jam practice. SF CI Series Jam is a no-music (quiet) jam. We recommend taking class before attending your first jam.

Rajendra Serber’s May class: Art-Sport

Back in the days before Contact improvisation was a well know social dance, Simone Forti called it an “Art-Sport.” In this class we will explore the balance between art and sport. Sharing momentum traveling through space into and out of lifts works when you have full commitment to a goal beyond the point of contact. We are going to get outerspacial striving to attain that goal. The artistry comes in the choice of which goal to strive for and how to communicate that with your partner. How can we find strength in ourselves and our partners? How can we let changing states guide us in finding the balance between expression and athleticism? We will play between the gravitational pulls of the earth and the own changing states.

For more information about classes and the jam, click here.

Class: 6:30-8:00PM (Beginning-Intermediate Level)
Instructor for May: Rajendra Serber

Jam: 8:00-11:30PM
$15 Single Class, $5 Single Jam, $18 for both
Passes: $15 for 4-Week Jam, $55 for 4-Week Class, $65 for 4-Week Class and Jam

The San Francisco Contact Improvisation Series takes place EVERY TUESDAY year-round at CounterPULSE. SF CI Series Class is sequential, but drop-ins are encouraged. The best learning experience comes from trying out the styles of at least 3 of our monthly teachers. CI deepens your flexibility, kinesthetic awareness, and choices for contemporary partnering. Explore the discipline and play of this dance form with both class study and jam practice. SF CI Series Jam is a no-music (quiet) jam. We recommend taking class before attending your first jam.

Rajendra Serber’s May class: Art-Sport

Back in the days before Contact improvisation was a well know social dance, Simone Forti called it an “Art-Sport.” In this class we will explore the balance between art and sport. Sharing momentum traveling through space into and out of lifts works when you have full commitment to a goal beyond the point of contact. We are going to get outerspacial striving to attain that goal. The artistry comes in the choice of which goal to strive for and how to communicate that with your partner. How can we find strength in ourselves and our partners? How can we let changing states guide us in finding the balance between expression and athleticism? We will play between the gravitational pulls of the earth and the own changing states.

For more information about classes and the jam, click here.

Class: 6:30-8:00PM (Beginning-Intermediate Level)
Instructor for May: Rajendra Serber

Jam: 8:00-11:30PM
$15 Single Class, $5 Single Jam, $18 for both
Passes: $15 for 4-Week Jam, $55 for 4-Week Class, $65 for 4-Week Class and Jam

The San Francisco Contact Improvisation Series takes place EVERY TUESDAY year-round at CounterPULSE. SF CI Series Class is sequential, but drop-ins are encouraged. The best learning experience comes from trying out the styles of at least 3 of our monthly teachers. CI deepens your flexibility, kinesthetic awareness, and choices for contemporary partnering. Explore the discipline and play of this dance form with both class study and jam practice. SF CI Series Jam is a no-music (quiet) jam. We recommend taking class before attending your first jam.

Rajendra Serber’s May class: Art-Sport

Back in the days before Contact improvisation was a well know social dance, Simone Forti called it an “Art-Sport.” In this class we will explore the balance between art and sport. Sharing momentum traveling through space into and out of lifts works when you have full commitment to a goal beyond the point of contact. We are going to get outerspacial striving to attain that goal. The artistry comes in the choice of which goal to strive for and how to communicate that with your partner. How can we find strength in ourselves and our partners? How can we let changing states guide us in finding the balance between expression and athleticism? We will play between the gravitational pulls of the earth and the own changing states.

For more information about classes and the jam, click here.