For the fourth straight year, Earthdance, the famed retreat center in Western Massachusetts where much contact improvisation is danced, taught, and lived, is giving out Diversity & Inclusion Scholarships to its Falling Leaves Jam, which runs Thursday, October 19, to…
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Join the Earthdance Diversity Scholarship Committee
About three years ago, Sarah Young, Earthdance’s Executive Director, and I created Earthdance Diversity Scholarship, which awarded scholarships to members of under-represented groups to attend the Earthdance’s Falling Leaves Jam. So far, despite some bumps, I think we can call…
Diversity in CI, 2016 edition
It was a fruitful, encouraging, and yet painful weekend at this past Falling Leaves Jam when it comes to diversity. A conversation about diversity revealed many difficult truths about where we’re at as a community in our thinking and actions…
Support Diversity, Get a Private CI Lesson
For the next two weeks, to help fundraise for the Earthdance Diversity Scholarship Fund to the Falling Leaves Jam, I’m offering private contact improvisation lessons if you make a donation to the Diversity Scholarship Fund. For a donation of only…
Earthdance Diversity Scholarship – deadline Monday (Sept. 14)
Somehow in my promotion of this, I’ve completely forgotten to post it on my own blog. Earthdance, the famed retreat center in Western Massachusetts where much contact is danced, taught, and lived, is giving out Diversity Scholarships to the October…
Diversity Scholarship for Falling Leaves Jam, deadline Monday 10/6
I’m happy to report some progress being made towards greater diversity in contact improvisation. For the first time, Earthdance is offering a Diversity Scholarship for the October Falling Leaves Jam (10/23 – 10/26). The deadline is coming up soon —…
Contact improvisation New Year’s wishes
I have some wishes for contact improvisation for 2014: That this is a year where CI as a group thinks more about “In” and “Out.” I’d like to see the CI community do some extra reflection this year about how…
Unicorns, or why this picture moves me
I find this picture, recently posted to the Contact Quarterly Newsletter, surprisingly moving. The reason, I think, is that it’s like seeing a unicorn. It is rare, and beautiful, and mythical. It is something that you never thought you would actually…
What you can do to promote diversity in CI
This is likely the first of many posts about diversity and contact improvisation. It is hopefully no secret to you that contact improvisation dancers are not a particularly diverse group. CI dancers tend to be white, quite educated, coming from…