Schedule

Proposed Schedule for the Very Affordable Berkeley Contact Jam

Day	Time	What
Friday	6pm	space open for arrival, registration, open dancing
	7pm ish	brief opening circle
	7:30 ish	Mixer into open dancing
Saturday	9a – 10a	“Dance Dates”
	10a	Warm-up and Mixer
	10:30a-1pm	open dancing
	2p-5p	‘Encuentro’
	5p-7:30p	dinner at the Hall
	7p- 8p	Performance Salon – short performances based around contact improvisation
	8p +	MIxer into open dancing
Sunday	9a – 10a	‘Dance Dates’
	10a	Warm-up and Mixer
	10:30a-12:30p	open dancing
	12:30p-2:30p	Lunch break
	1pm – 2pm	Contemplative Dance Practice
	2:00p – 5p	Encuentro
	5p-5:30p	Closing Circle

• Warm-up – a facilitated warm-up practice to get us all warmed up and dancing with a similar starting place
• Mixer – facilitated scores so that we get to have many short dances with different people in order to ‘break the ice’ before we dive in.
• Dance Date – in the mornings, there is an hour from 9-10 set aside for dance dates.  Very simple… make a date with someone and agree to dance with them for the time period.  others know that cutting into your dance is not appropriate.  You may also come in and use the space  for a ‘date with yourself’ doing your own movement practice.
• Encuentro – Very simple score: talk and listen to each other for an half an hour about dance desires, speculations, thoughts, then open dance for two hours, then come back for an half hour of reporting and discussing of experience and observations.  Discussions will be lightly facilitated and will be a mix of whole circle speaking and speaking in small groups.
• Performance Salon – a space to share short performances and physical experiments around Contact Improvisation.  Some invited performances and space for spontaneous experiments emerging from meetings at the jam.