Listening & Agency A Contact-Improvisation Masterclass with Gabrielle Revlock Montreal

What becomes possible when we move beyond leading and following? Moment Collectives presents LISTENING & AGENCY A Contact-Improvisation Masterclass with Gabrielle Revlock An invitation into moving beyond the leader/follower binary towards listening, agency, and responsive dancing. 📅 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2026 📍 LOCATION Circuit-Est · Studio B 1881 rue Saint-André, Montreal Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=1881+rue+Saint-Andre+Montreal 🕓 SCHEDULE Arrival: 4:45–5:10 PM Masterclass: 5:15–9:00 PM Departure: 9:00–9:15 PM Please arrive during the arrival window so we can begin together at 5:15 PM. 💛 SLIDING SCALE $40–$80 CAD For CI practitioners with a solid foundation and an autonomous practice. 📝 PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED Full information and registration are available in the Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczbuOA9TMBG25WDJPb16jj8nweawvkS1csdahCPlvXlEYs_w/viewform?hl=en Your spot is confirmed once payment is received. Payment instructions are provided in the form. Door codes and access instructions will be sent by email upon registration. 🌀 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Listening & Agency: Moving beyond the leader/follower binary towards listening, agency, and responsive dancing. Contact Improvisation is often framed through binaries—active/passive, leader/follower—but these distinctions do not accurately reflect the complexity of the negotiation, the conversation, the dance. This workshop proposes a different paradigm: listening at the core, surrounded by a field of agency. With this in mind, we will delve into the concept of yielding as a choice, promoting ease, clarity, and responsiveness in our dancing. Technical attention will be given to the fascia and how it can support efficient communication through touch. Strategies for coordinating with space, within our own bodies, with a partner, and within a group will provide frameworks for play and exploration. By combining listening and agency we will arrive at dances that are simultaneously bold and sensitive. ✨ ABOUT GABRIELLE REVLOCK Gabrielle Revlock is a New York City Bessie Award-winning choreographer and has been a practitioner of Contact Improvisation for over 20 years. Her research on therapeutic application of Contact Improv is published in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 (Oxford University Press, 2024) and has been presented at various conferences including CI@50, the Embodiment Conference, Dance & Somatics Conference, National Association of Community and Restorative Justice Conference, and the Future of CI Conference. As a CI teacher, recent teaching engagements include PDX CI +/- Festival, European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange, Brinca Galicia Contact Festival, The Field Center, Ontario Regional Contact Improv Dance Jam, Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival and Earthdance. As an organizer, Gabrielle is the co-producer of the 2026 NYC Contact Improvisation Festival and regularly organizes workshops with guest artists in NYC. As a dancer, Gabrielle has performed for Lucinda Childs, Makini (jumatatu m. poe), Susan Rethorst, David Gordon, Vicky Shick, Almanac Dance Circus Theater, Jane Comfort, and Susan Marshall. Revlock holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College and a certificate in Restorative Justice Facilitation from University of San Diego. 🔗 CONNECT WITH GABRIELLE Gabrielle Revlock, MFA https://GabrielleRevlock.com https://RestorativeContact.com Instagram and other links: https://linktr.ee/gabriellerevlock 🗓 GABRIELLE’S FULL TEACHING SCHEDULE • Between Flying and Falling — October 2–3, New Orleans, LA • Restorative Contact — October 4, New Orleans, LA • Contact Improv Basics — October 6, 20, 27, 6:30–8:30 PM, 100 Grand St, NYC • Listening & Agency — October 13, 6–9 PM, Rochester, NY • Gymmy Jam — Mondays: October 19, 5–8 PM; November 16, 4–7 PM; December 14, 3–6 PM, Bushwick • Restorative Contact at Maha Rose — October 21, November 10, December 8, 6:30–8:30 PM, Brooklyn, NY • Listening & Agency — November 2, 5:15–9 PM, Circuit-Est · Studio B, Montreal, hosted by Moment Collectives • Contact Improvisation All Levels — November 12 & 19, 7–9 PM, 115 Wooster St, NYC • Restorative Contact — December 2, 7:30–9:15 PM, Sanctuary, Northampton, MA • Beyond Dating: An Embodied Encounter Lab — December 3, 7–9 PM, Northampton, MA 📖 MORE OF GABRIELLE’S WORK Anonymous Apologies is an invitation to contemplate the transformative power of apologies. “The Therapeutic Applications of Contact Improvisation” by Aaron Brandes and Gabrielle Revlock is included in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation at 50, edited by Ann Cooper Albright. Book release date: December 12, 2024 Discount code: AAFLYG 📲 FOLLOW MOMENT COLLECTIVES https://www.instagram.com/moment.collectives/ 💬 QUESTIONS Valerie Sabbah, host of Moment Collectives [email protected] WhatsApp: +1-514-838-9686