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BIPOC Improvisation and Contact Improvisation Jam
August 5, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
BIPOC IMPROVISATION AND CONTRACT IMPROVISATION JAM
The BIPoC Improvisation and Contact Improvisation Jam provides a space for individuals who identify as BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) to learn and practice with others who self-identify as belonging in the BIPoC intersectional identities. There will be a collective warm up followed by an open jam. The space will focus on dancing, sharing, moving at the speed of trust (adrienne maree brown), dreaming, and thriving as we empower each other through community and dance.
While it is important for everyone to have the opportunity to collaborate across differences, it is also valuable and crucial to do some of the work separately in affinity groups. This provides BIPoC folx with a space to practice Improvisation and Contact Improvisation that is free of or involves less emotional labor than sharing space with white individuals or in predominantly white spaces.
**I would like that we start together and that people do not have to stay for the whole time.
MAKISIG AIKIN
I am a queer, transgender Filipino born choreographer, dance artist, facilitator, and activist. I was raised in the Philippines and am currently based in Berlin, Germany. My work focuses on the recognition of intersectional identities, reconnecting with my ancestry, and decentralizing Western ideologies in dance making. I co-founded The Love Makers, a project-based dance company, with Anya Cloud. I have been practicing Contact Improvisation for 13 years and have taught in many different communities including HZT, UCLA, Tanzfabrik Schule, Being Touch Festival and The Field Center among others. My orientation to CI is deeply interconnected with my training in Filipino Traditional Dance, Kung Fu, Jiu Jitsu, Improvisation, walking meditation, Authentic Movement, Bouldering/Climbing, and Contemporary Dance. I examine how survival strategies can be translated into a communal physical practice, which I then use as a catalyst to a creative healing process. www.makisigakin.com