Clowntact COCO Jam! with Josh Luckens, Tom Cryan and Sarah Zucchero

Have you ever been to a contact improv jam that suddenly erupts into silliness? Where dancers transform into animals, speak in tongues, create new worlds? Where the ensemble surfs a wave of collective imagination to become an amoeba, conquering the universe with a barbaric yawp, then dispersing back to the wind? That’s the vibe of joyous theatrics we’re playing with in this jam that fuses theatrical clowning with contact improvisation. In this experiment in combining two deeply relational and imaginative art forms, we’ll ask: *How can the clown’s spontaneity, lightness, and loving mischief bring more color and joy to our dancing? *How can CI’s fluidity and somatic imagination infuse our clowning with more physical dynamism and presence? *How can the spirit of play and delight create more aliveness and connectivity between us? All experience levels are welcome with both clowning and CI. We’ll be offering many ways in, leading with curiosity as we let our clowns dance and our dancers clown. There will be a mix of workshops and community-led offerings, experimental performance opportunities, paratheatrical happenings, and an epic clownderscore. Clowntact improv is a playground for infusing our interactions on the dance floor with clown theatrics, collectively discovering what happens when we truly come out to play. Your registration fee includes a red clown nose! What is a CoCo Jam? Community Collaborative Jams are a new and unfolding program concept at Earthdance which launched in early 2022. This new programming thread was driven by the desire for more opportunities to dance CI and to connect with the community in smaller containers. Similar to Seasonal Jams, the CoCo jam has one or more hosts that, rather than always being professional artists with strong facilitation skills, can be dedicated Earthdance community members and upcoming dancers building their leadership skills. Support staff is also more limited compared to our seasonal jams and participants are invited into a higher degree of autonomy and self care. Similarly, the workshop offerings and schedule are also more influenced by the community members themselves and created on a more adhoc basis. In preparation for attending a CoCo jam, you may want to ask yourself: *What are you currently researching or inspired to offer? *Is there something you hope to lab, share, or play with? EARLY BIRD PRICING ends January 26, 2026! For more information or to register: https://www.earthdance.net/event/clowntact-coco-jam-with-josh-luckens-tom-cryan-and-sarah-zucchero/