BraveSpace Contact Dance Temple

BraveSpace® is about expanding your ability to connect with others while simultaneously maintaining your own wholeness. The dance of Contact Improvisation (CI) nurtures and tests this skillset directly and playfully. CI is built on a simple experimental premise: What if we dance in connection with each other without any choreography? CI and Somatic Practice have grown up together (CI began in the 1970’s) because the premise of both is the ability to move with awareness, letting sensory attunement lead the way. CI takes this somatic experiment a step further by literally putting us in touch with each other. The BraveSpace Contact Temple is a CI class and jam, with music, guidance, playtime, and some discussion. What differentiates the temple from other CI experiences is the inclusion of the 10 principles of BraveSpace (below), a somatic framework that actually formed by exploring CI as a personal and social medicine. The study of CI is simultaneously physical, social, and spiritual. The BraveSpace Contact Temple acknowledges each of these dimensions and offers support for you to take what you’re given into the studio out into the rest of your life. You do not need experience with CI to participate. This container is trauma-aware, yet it is strongly encouraged that you begin with a BraveSpace Body Temple (a somatic movement container which is not touch focused) before coming to this group if you carry trauma around touch and your body. Reach out to Matthew ([email protected]) if you have questions. Led by Matthew Nelson with an assistant. At SomaWorks Studio: 750 E. Warm Springs Ave., Entrance and parking on Bannock, 2nd floor Wear clothing without buckles or belts that moves easily. $25-$30 sliding scale--pay here online or at the door. Use the coupon code “25” for the lower price online.