CI Lab - Sunday April 19th 11am-1pm Gretchen's House @ Oak Valley Dr

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Jonathan Leake

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Apr 10, 2026, 9:07:08 PMApr 10
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Hello everyone! Looking for an opportunity to practice CI skills outside of a jam context? We will be hosting our "Contact Lab" on Sunday April 19th from 11am to 1pm. 

The Lab is a place for peer-to-peer instruction and skill sharing to take place. If you are completely new to CI it would be a good idea to go to a few classes before coming to the lab so that you can get more out of it. 

The cost will just be the rental cost of $70 split between the attendees. The more that come, the more affordable it is :D 

Moss and I, along with some other local CI dancers, went to the Ontario Regional Jam for Easter Weekend. There were lots of classes and workshops that inspired this lab agenda. We are excited to practice some new skills and ideas with you all!

April 19th Agenda:

Warmup section ~20 mins

  • solo stretching/opening circle
  • Connect with our "centration"/rotation in the hips and shoulders
Exploration Topics ~60 minutes
  • Lots of floor work!
  • Spiraling! On the floor, or standing, or in the air if you want!
    • focus on hip and shoulder rotation mechanics
    • focus on how tone in our limbs can assist in spiraling on the floor
  • Rolling! Sidewards, forwards, backwards... on the ground, from a low table, or from a high table!
    • Using the spiral mechanics we will practice getting more efficient at all sorts of different rolls!
Jam and closing circle ~40 minutes

The agenda for this lab was created by Moss and I, but we welcome anyone else interested in facilitating or creating exploration topics to take on that responsibility in the future. We have a WhatsApp group that you can join where we talk more about this stuff beforehand: join with this link


Janee Messer

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Apr 13, 2026, 12:17:32 PMApr 13
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I'm going to do my best to be there!

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