FALL JAM
OCTOBER 24 - 27
Classic Thursday-Sunday Contact/Collective Improvisation Jam at The Field Center! Classes, labs, and open jams facilitated by our very own staff; Nuria Bowart, Anya Smolnikova, Lilianna Kane, Jared Williams, and Julianne Cariño!
Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided. Indoor sleeping options, and camping options.
Dancing, sunbathing, swimming, eating food fresh from our garden, sauna, rigor and relaxation...
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' OR 'Work Trade' when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, go to the Work Exchange page.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
REFUND POLICY: Full refunds or workshop credit available up to 10 days prior to the event. Please inform us if you cannot attend an event up to 10 days prior [including Scholars and Work Traders]! Refunds/credit within the 10 days prior to the event may be available on a case-by case basis, please reach out to communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Nuria Latifa Bowart is a professional dancer and movement artist; a student, practitioner, and teacher of Capoeira with the rank of Mestra; a practicing manual therapist and Certified Rolfer®; a movement educator authorized as a Teacher and Certifier within the Axis Syllabus© international research community; a student, teacher and performer of CI (contact Improvisation) since 1991. And a mother of two. Nuria is also a co-founder of the Field Center and lives in Vermont. She is embedded in lineage based practices, and is a committed student of form, while still believing in the value of a-systematized learning and committing herself to facilitating space for such learning to occur.
Nuria finds the continual coming together and falling apart of life to be readily available for study while dancing CI. This study and practice can support self awareness, and can feel confrontive as often as it is comfortable. Nuria is not afraid of discomfort, but is interested in reducing harm where and when possible. She is interested in how the practice of CI can be a study of care, for self and other.
Photo by Chani Bockwinkel. Sebastian Grubb and Nuria Bowart
Julianne Cariño is a multimedia artist and teacher, born and raised in Lenapehoking. They have been a student, spaceholder, teacher, and performer of Contact Improvisation since 2018. Cariño’s facilitation work is often born from their personal experience of inaccess in both spiritual and movement-based spaces. Julianne has been an organizer for the Brooklyn BIPOC Jam since 2023 and has had the honor of teaching through the Bill Young Studio/100 Grand St. (NYC), Brooklyn Arts Exchange (Brooklyn), Ponderosa (Germany), Groundworks (Gardiner, NY), Dance North (Scotland), and The Field Center (Vermont).
Cariño advocates for a sense of communal care and respect through a praxis of listening, direct communication, and physical support.
Photo by Rosa Allegra Wolff
Lilianna Kane is a dancer and chef, currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions and paying attention. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally. She is currently the Contact Improvisation programming coordinator and the kitchen manager/head chef at The Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT, where she also has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation
Photo by jonah m. david
Anya Smolnikova
BFA Boston University | MFA Northwestern University
is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator with practices that span the fields of painting, installation and performance. Her practices explore belonging, presence and perception through focused skill building, ritual and daydreaming.
Photo by Rosa Allegra Wolff
Jared Williams has been studying, researching and falling down inside of CI spaces since 2011.
Prior to that he spent over a decade training and teaching Capoeira Regional.
He has learned Contact Improvisation from and worked with Taja Will, Chris Aiken, Jennifer Nugent, Keith Hennessy, Nancy Stark Smith, Karen Nelson and Scott Wells among many others and has been facilitating and teaching Contact Improvisation since 2016.
He founded the JP Contact Improvisation Jam in Jamaica Plain, Boston where he lived for many years and continues to teach and facilitate CI based workshops and events in his role as Director at the Field Center in Vermont.
In his dancing he is interested in how we dance with the world as it is, how we cultivate an ethical wild-ness, group wilderness as places of emergent structure, rest and edges.
Photo by Anna Maynard