A workshop designed to focus our study of Contact and Improvisation through the Underscore, a long score for jamming/composition/contact/improvisation. The Underscore guides us through a progression of "changing states" of body and mind—from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, into group circulation and Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out into whole room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.

Combining our practice of Contact Improvisation and the Underscore with the pleasure and discipline of detailed listening to sound, we will move with many species of live and recorded music to develop conscious, varied relationships between what we hear and how we move. Through the phases of the Underscore—alone, in contact, in groups, in silence, and with live music—we'll study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship, enhancing the pleasure and awareness in our dancing experience.

For movers with intermediate/advanced level experience with Contact Improvisation.