Queer Affinity Contact Improvisation Jam // Every other Sunday // 9:30am-11:30am

1st + 3rd Sunday of each month: October 4th + 18th
Contact improvisation is a form of improvised dancing involving the exploration of one's body in relationship to others by using the fundamentals of sharing weight and touch. Deep listening, consent, self awareness, and play are integral parts of this dance form that will be highlighted at each jam. Every jam will include a mini class, open space to practice the form, and introductory lessons for those interested.

This jam space is exclusively for people who identify as LGBTQAI2S. Beginners and non-dancers are welcome.

Jam sliding scale $0-10

It's a Fucking Miracle!

Tuesday October 6th, 13th + 27th // FLOCK // 6:30pm-7:45pm // FLOCK // 6:30pm-7:45pm

REGISTER HERE // To get up-to-date info about class and registration get on Tahni’s e-newsletter: HERE

$15

Since December of 2022 10% of proceeds from class go to: Native American Youth and Family organization. We have donated over $1750 and counting…

Masks are optional

This class comes out of many years of movement study, curiosity and play. It weaves together my somatic leanings, movement improvisational scores, contact improv, authentic movement, contemplative dance, dance boot camp and fiercely dancing-my-ass-off-in-the-club.Original music compositions, pop-culture songs, and abstract sound weaves through each class. it is a mash up encouraging entanglement. It moves you and the class is moved by you.

Must pre-register. Let's figure out how to do this together.

MOVEMENT MEDICINE with Tracy Broyles

Most Wednesdays at 10-11:15. For questions and current schedule contact Tracy, tracy.k.broyles@gmail.com. more info tracybroyles.com

Class size is limited, $25/class.

Are you curious about how the energy of your mind, spirit, and emotions integrates with your physical body? Have you had experiences of moving your body and then feeling a big shift in your psyche? This class works directly with this integration and uses movement as medicine, dance as a resource, visualization as direct communication, and community as structural support.

Movement is the nature of all things in the universe.

This is a call and response to your own soul, a precise practice of unfolding the wisdom inside each of us through movement. 

Personal energy, community energy, universal energy- it is all accessible through deep listening to, and moving from the body. 

This class often begins with checking in and a conceptual teaching from Tracy, then comes into body activation with guided movement as the medicine for what ails us on that particular day. 

Tracy brings over two decades of experience facilitating embodiment, movement, and creative inquiry in small-group experiences and always aims to keep the approach fresh.

Movement Medicine Wednesday Class for those with somatic inquiry movement experience.

Alignment is a Felt Sense with Emily Jones

Fall Series: Fridays Oct 16, 23, 30 & Nov 6, 13 & 20 

9:30-11:30am

Drop-in sliding scale: $15-$30 / 6-week series: $72-180

In this class, we practice alignment as an ongoing negotiation, not a fixed state. Inspired by the Axis Syllabus, we cultivate physical perceptivity and movement fluency. We’ll explore choreography that spirals to and from the floor, plays with musicality, and invites dynamic dancing. Through improvisation, we’ll integrate our own questions and curiosities. This is a research space oriented toward expanding possibilities for movement, awareness, and harmony within our bodies. 

How do we sense the curves of our bones and allow them to guide us toward support?
How do we embody the fluid and elastic nature of our connective tissue?
How do we feel rhythm as an organizing force?
How do we track and respond to the interoceptive cues arising from our bodies?
How do we honor the limitations of our bodies while orienting toward possibility?

Graphic by Hannah Krafcik

Earth /Sky with Tahni Holt

Tuesday October 20th / 6:30pm-8:00pm

$15-$30 // REGISTER HERE

Earth/Sky focuses on sensitivity practices through somatic inquiry, improvisational movement scores and Contemporary Alexander technique principles. Earth/Sky goes deep into inquires of grounding and gravitational support in one’s being. In Earth/Sky we swim into practices of embodiment where we sensitize into places we may be holding ourselves up, back, and/or in, and ask can we find movement through the cracks, can we rest into presence? Can we listen in on the dark recesses of our unconscious patterns? Can we integrate these practices in our everyday lives? Expect waves of rigorous movement exploration alongside slowed down sensorial capacity building practices. Prompts offer a starting point for exploration to facilitate new ways of moving and being. All are welcome, no prior movement experience needed.
Masks are optional.

$15-$30 (no one turned away from lack of funds)
 pre-registration required
To reserve your spot email Tahni at hello@tahniholt.com

Inner Constellations Lab with Katie Eichner

Saturday Oct 24th, 2-5pm

$25-45 sliding scale

https://deepplayinstitute.com/events/inner-constellations-lab/

Inner Constellations Lab is a monthly Saturday program put on by The Deep Play Institute where participants experiment with dancing, voicing, expressing and composing their inner parts using a psychodrama-inspired constellation practice called Clearing.

Clearing begins as all participants sit in a semi-circle. After a few moments of silence, a participant stands up and elects themself to be the protagonist-director. They begin in neutrality, waiting to see what arises in their inner world. When they notice an inner part emerge—an emotion, an image, a voice, or an energy—they move somewhere in the room and embody that part using gestures, movement, sound, and words. Shortly afterwards, they then invite another group member to step in and embody the part they inhabited. As new parts emerge, the protagonist invites additional participants to embody them, creating a living, dynamic tableau of interconnected parts. The protagonist begins to subtly direct this constellation, experimenting with spatial positions, postures, movement, and dynamics. They might re-join a role, converse with their parts, make certain parts louder or quieter, or dismiss and re-role parts as their inner landscape unfolds.

Each moment involves waiting, sensing, seeing, and shifting the emergent system to see what happens if we step deeper into a part, move further away, or bring parts closer together. The practice encourages experimentation as a kind of “tinkering”—not merely for the sake of experimentation, but for liberation: for seeing ourselves more clearly and unfolding the beautiful imaginative depths of our inner worlds. At times, this might involve healing or reconciliation between parts; at other times, it can reveal the subtlety, intensity, complexity, collaboration, and conflict inside of us. One intention is to allow our inner worlds to become outer, and to play with what is often held only inside our own minds and bodies. Another is to experience stepping into the parts of others, embodying our own parts and emotions as they map onto another person’s inner world. We might come away feeling more connected, seen, changed, refreshed, shaken up, delighted, overwhelmed, and/or alive.

Each month our lab will play with different ways of tinkering with the practice, different methods of adjusting Clearing to help it deepen and expand. This also serves as inner research for the participants – how can I use this practice to help my inner system of parts unfold, be expressed more fully, more subtly? Which aspects of myself will I bring out? How will I put them in relation to each other?

A Constellation of Elemental Bodies // Saturdays 10am-1pm // FLOCK

November 7: Water

December 5: Earth

January 2: Air

February 6: Fire

Series: $100 // Individually: $35 REGISTER HERE

 If taking the full series you still need to register for each day separately

We work with practices from It’s a Fucking Miracle class and organize around the principles of The Alexander Technique through the four elements: Water, Earth, Air, Fire. 

We dance, we move, we talk, we drink tea together, we might even lightly touch each other. You come because you might have been inside of It’s a Fucking Miracle (it is not a prerequisite though) and you get that there is a universe behind each practice, there is a forever depth that you can touch and keep touching. In this series you get a clearer idea of how The Alexander Technique is in the room with us, what are the principles and how I am tethering our practices with it. Perhaps you get more understanding on how to take these practices off the dance floor (but please don’t leave for too long) and into your everyday living of life (but please know I am including dance as part of your everydayness). The practices are organized around four elements: Water, Earth, Air and Fire. Each class focuses on one element. How do we work with these elements as energy, as metaphor, as imagination, as teacher, and how do they reside in our physiology? In this series we understand that words are just one way we are communicating. There are so many ways we are communicating and learning from each other: repetition of doing and transmission of being are two more examples that are here with us. To be in our sensing bodies is adding complexity of this moment, right now allowing for the layers that are here to be felt and to deepen into the moment. It is not a skimming across or skating on, it is a landing in, a constant becoming. We practice together because how else is there to practice how to be in this world where our nervous systems are entangling with other bodies (animal bodies, water bodies, land bodies, plant bodies, rock bodies, machine bodies), with thoughts, with environments, with beliefs, with whatever is happening around us. How else is there to practice if not with others.  

photo credit: Morgan Bell courtesy of PICA (HORIZON)

Every teacher I have ever had is in the room with us.