UNDERCURRENTS W/ Lee Hull + JP Frank

November 18th, 12pm-5pm

Sliding Scale: $70-$120 (Option to pay a 50% deposit to register, remainder due one day before training. Talk to us about money if this fee prevents you from attending)

Registration: https://touchandchange.me/events/undercurrents-of-contact-improv-portland

This is not your typical contact workshop. We won't be learning technical skills.

We WILL be diving into the parts of contact not often centered in CI spaces: power dynamics, emotions, relinquishing and assuming control, and what belonging means for us

We facilitate in a trauma-informed, transparent way. Which starts now by forecasting that this content will likely move and shake you up in powerful and unpredictable ways.

To us, trauma-informed means inviting you to participate by engaging, witnessing, or resting.  It means centering consent and clear forecasting in every exercise. Your boundaries in this process, from start to finish, are the golden threads in all of these undercurrents. They are what will allow us to go deeper.

We invite you to let the practices metabolize the full spectrum of your life outside of the dance.

We will be exploring how to utilize this practice as a method for more fully processing our lives outside of Jams so as to be able to bring our whole selves to the dance. This means dismantling the “Check your problems at the door” attitude and welcoming in what is present. 

Pre-requisite: Enough CI practice to have at least some sense of your habits, preferences, and aversions within CI Spaces.

Masks are optional