Underscore Jam

The Underscore is a brilliant and focused long-form structure for researching and practicing improvisation and contact improvisation. Developed by Nancy Stark Smith through decades of committed dancing, research, and collaboration, the Underscore is a framework for embodied depth of investigation within community. The practice includes a multitude of avenues into rigorous dancing — arriving, tuning, spatial relationships, ways of engaging/disengaging/re-engaging, experimentation, play, research, and conversation. We will hone skills for listening and responding, risk-taking, setting boundaries, consent, collective responsibility and care, composition, and critical reflection. The Underscore will start with a 30-minute talk through and will finish with collective sharing. All participants are asked to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the Underscore. 

The Underscore is open to all — no previous experience is required. Please come as the people you are with the bodies that you have. I approach the Underscore as an inclusive high-risk practice that can be magic. I encourage you to come and do the same.

For further information: www.nancystarksmith.com/underscore/

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