Contact Improvisation-Inspired Score & Jam
Creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection
All are welcome
Closed captioning provided on advance request
We have a Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245793376703862/
Creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection
All are welcome
Closed captioning provided on advance request
We have a Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245793376703862/
*ZOOM LINK is posted here, and in our Facebook Group and Facebook weekly event page the morning of each session.
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LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84955745680 (NOTE: Link may show earlier date/time, but it is still valid)
Meeting ID: 849 5574 5680 . Waiting room. No Password.
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WHEN
Saturdays, 9:15am-10:30am Pacific time. (Optional group discussion afterwards.)
WHY:
Contact Improvisation-inspired online dancing can create moments of great creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection. It is not the same as CI, and you don't need to "know" CI to participate.
When I first started trying to “do CI” online, I often felt sad or frustrated. I felt “saudade,” “…the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations” (Wikipedia - one of many possible definitions).
But now I love my CI-inspired online dancing. Why?
Beginning in April, 2020 I organized a series of 5 online lab sessions for CI teachers, facilitators, and hosts. We used scores (A.K.A. exercises, experiments, provocations, instigations, structures, procedures) and discussion to help us discover the opportunities in CI-inspired online dancing, and to overcome some of the obstacles. Notes from those labs are here: Notes from labs.
CI-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam sessions aim to create more dance to love, and dance to gather tools and strength. To see a list of observations about online dancing, and questions and desires about how these observations can improve the future of CI, go here.
WHAT
Each session follows this format, Saturdays, Pacific time:
•9:15am-9:30am: Arrival, orientation, Q&A about the "Score of the Week" (see below), tech check, personal warmup
•9:30am: Session is closed. NOTE: No late arrivals
•9:30am-9:35am: Welcome from host, intros
•9:35am-10:30am: Dancing inspired by the Score of the Week
•10:30am: "Goodbyes" from those who are leaving
•10:30am-10:45am: Optional group discussion about the day's Score & Jam
•10:45am until whenever last person leaves: Optional general discussion
EQUITY AND ACCESS
There are many barriers to participation in the sessions, and those barriers are most likely especially high for those people who face inequity in participation not only in CI but in the world at large. I welcome any reflections about the equity of the sessions, and any ideas for increasing the equity of the sessions. Closed captioning is provided on request for welcome, intros, and the after-dance discussion. Chat to the host is also open throughout. The sessions are offered at no cost and without a request for donations. I also welcome offers to co-lead, or to take over leadership, from those identifying as belonging to a group underrepresented in CI. Please consider equity and access in designing and facilitating proposed scores.
EXPECTATIONS
Arrive before session gets closed. Session closes at 9:30am Pacific time.
BEFORE ARRIVING, PLEASE DO THREE THINGS:
1) Read the community agreements below
2) Get familiar with using the 6 features of Zoom listed below, on your device. All devices are welcome. Detachable or wireless webcams, and smaller devices like phones, tablets, or laptops offer the possibility of changing camera orientation. Joining by desktop computer is fine, and large screen displays and interfaces with flat-screen TV's are used by some.
Come early during “tech check” time and ask if you need help to learn these Zoom features:
• Stop video/Start video
• Hide Self-view
• Hide non-video participants
• Gallery view/Speaker view
• Mute/Unmute
• Pin video/Unpin video
3) Read the "Score of the Week" before arriving. It is posted at 5:00pm Pacific Time the day before each session (voting opens each Wednesday), here: https://tinyurl.com/weekendciscore
You can ask questions about the score during arrival and orientation time, 9:15am-9:30am.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
By participating in CI-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam: Beyond Saudade
(“Score & Jam”), you agree to the following.
These agreements are part of an effort to create a safer space where community awareness and care are foremost.
* I agree to treat others with awareness and care to the best of my ability, including not capturing/taking photos or video, and not engaging in unsafe, unhealthy, or harassing behaviors towards others.
* I understand that my image and surroundings may be viewable by others in the Zoom meeting, and that sounds in my space may be heard, unless I stop my video and/or mute my audio.
* I agree to take care of myself to the best of my ability, and I acknowledge that I [and any children I am responsible for] participate at my own [our own] risk, and I agree to the liability waiver below.
* Please promptly notify the Score & Jam host about any unhealthy, unsafe, or harassing action by a participant. The host will engage in discussion with the participant and take any action deemed appropriate, including temporary or permanent suspension from participation.
* I agree to ask the host for clarification of any of these agreements if they are unclear to me.
Liability Waiver:
By participating in Score & Jam I release and hold harmless Zach Pine, and their legal representatives and assigns, from any and all actions, causes of action, claims or any liabilities whatsoever, known or unknown now existing or which may arise in the future, on account of or in any way related to or arising out of my participation. This waiver also applies to any children accompanying me.
HOW TO VOTE FOR THE WEEKLY SCORE, OR PROPOSE A SCORE
Go to this link (no login required): https://tinyurl.com/weekendciscore
Enter your name and click “Join.” Use up to three votes, using "dots" to vote for the one or ones you like the most. You can change your votes at any time. Votes are tallied at 5:00pm Pacific time the day before each session, and votes are then cleared.
Use "Add a Card" if you want to suggest a score. Please consider equity and access in designing and facilitating proposed scores. Scores can be suitable for a “roomful” of dancers, or for designated groupings such as duets, trios, etc. in Breakout Rooms.
If you propose a score and it is chosen, you are expected to arrive promptly at the start of the session (9:15am Pacific time) to answer any questions about the score.
Score submissions are moderated by the organizer(s).
Each week, three previously voted-upon candidate scores are put forward, and if there are any newly submitted scores that have never been candidates, one is included in the voting, on a first-submitted first-included basis.
A queue and record of past and newly-submitted scores is kept at: https://tinyurl.com/weeklyscorequeue
SOUND
You are generally invited to leave your microphone UNMUTED, unless there is excessive sound in your space, for privacy reasons, or unless muting is part of the score. Sharing the sound of our dancing helps us to share ourselves and our spaces. Unless there is excessive background sound in your space, the "Original Sound" setting on Zoom is preferred (ask for help during check in if you are unfamiliar with this setting). Please don’t engage in verbal conversation unless that is part of the score. You can turn down or turn off your own speakers if you prefer to hear no sound. There is generally no music (except the music of our dance sounds!)
WITNESSING (FOCUSED OBSERVATION AND LISTENING)
You are invited to witness during some scores, with an awareness of the impact that your witnessing has on others. For example, placing your face close to your camera can be disconcerting for others. It is also possible to witness with your camera off.
WHEN YOU ARE NOT PARTICIPATING
Use “Stop video” at any time. That makes you, temporarily, a "Non-video participant." Then, when others take advantage of the “Hide non-video participants” Zoom feature, they are treated to a screen full of actively engaged people, without empty rooms, still profile photos, or video of people not engaged in the dance.
CHAT
Chat is enabled only for communication with the host.
--------------------------->
LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84955745680 (NOTE: Link may show earlier date/time, but it is still valid)
Meeting ID: 849 5574 5680 . Waiting room. No Password.
—-
WHEN
Saturdays, 9:15am-10:30am Pacific time. (Optional group discussion afterwards.)
WHY:
Contact Improvisation-inspired online dancing can create moments of great creativity, discovery, playfulness, learning, physicality, and connection. It is not the same as CI, and you don't need to "know" CI to participate.
When I first started trying to “do CI” online, I often felt sad or frustrated. I felt “saudade,” “…the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations” (Wikipedia - one of many possible definitions).
But now I love my CI-inspired online dancing. Why?
Beginning in April, 2020 I organized a series of 5 online lab sessions for CI teachers, facilitators, and hosts. We used scores (A.K.A. exercises, experiments, provocations, instigations, structures, procedures) and discussion to help us discover the opportunities in CI-inspired online dancing, and to overcome some of the obstacles. Notes from those labs are here: Notes from labs.
CI-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam sessions aim to create more dance to love, and dance to gather tools and strength. To see a list of observations about online dancing, and questions and desires about how these observations can improve the future of CI, go here.
WHAT
Each session follows this format, Saturdays, Pacific time:
•9:15am-9:30am: Arrival, orientation, Q&A about the "Score of the Week" (see below), tech check, personal warmup
•9:30am: Session is closed. NOTE: No late arrivals
•9:30am-9:35am: Welcome from host, intros
•9:35am-10:30am: Dancing inspired by the Score of the Week
•10:30am: "Goodbyes" from those who are leaving
•10:30am-10:45am: Optional group discussion about the day's Score & Jam
•10:45am until whenever last person leaves: Optional general discussion
EQUITY AND ACCESS
There are many barriers to participation in the sessions, and those barriers are most likely especially high for those people who face inequity in participation not only in CI but in the world at large. I welcome any reflections about the equity of the sessions, and any ideas for increasing the equity of the sessions. Closed captioning is provided on request for welcome, intros, and the after-dance discussion. Chat to the host is also open throughout. The sessions are offered at no cost and without a request for donations. I also welcome offers to co-lead, or to take over leadership, from those identifying as belonging to a group underrepresented in CI. Please consider equity and access in designing and facilitating proposed scores.
EXPECTATIONS
Arrive before session gets closed. Session closes at 9:30am Pacific time.
BEFORE ARRIVING, PLEASE DO THREE THINGS:
1) Read the community agreements below
2) Get familiar with using the 6 features of Zoom listed below, on your device. All devices are welcome. Detachable or wireless webcams, and smaller devices like phones, tablets, or laptops offer the possibility of changing camera orientation. Joining by desktop computer is fine, and large screen displays and interfaces with flat-screen TV's are used by some.
Come early during “tech check” time and ask if you need help to learn these Zoom features:
• Stop video/Start video
• Hide Self-view
• Hide non-video participants
• Gallery view/Speaker view
• Mute/Unmute
• Pin video/Unpin video
3) Read the "Score of the Week" before arriving. It is posted at 5:00pm Pacific Time the day before each session (voting opens each Wednesday), here: https://tinyurl.com/weekendciscore
You can ask questions about the score during arrival and orientation time, 9:15am-9:30am.
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
By participating in CI-Inspired Weekly Score & Jam: Beyond Saudade
(“Score & Jam”), you agree to the following.
These agreements are part of an effort to create a safer space where community awareness and care are foremost.
* I agree to treat others with awareness and care to the best of my ability, including not capturing/taking photos or video, and not engaging in unsafe, unhealthy, or harassing behaviors towards others.
* I understand that my image and surroundings may be viewable by others in the Zoom meeting, and that sounds in my space may be heard, unless I stop my video and/or mute my audio.
* I agree to take care of myself to the best of my ability, and I acknowledge that I [and any children I am responsible for] participate at my own [our own] risk, and I agree to the liability waiver below.
* Please promptly notify the Score & Jam host about any unhealthy, unsafe, or harassing action by a participant. The host will engage in discussion with the participant and take any action deemed appropriate, including temporary or permanent suspension from participation.
* I agree to ask the host for clarification of any of these agreements if they are unclear to me.
Liability Waiver:
By participating in Score & Jam I release and hold harmless Zach Pine, and their legal representatives and assigns, from any and all actions, causes of action, claims or any liabilities whatsoever, known or unknown now existing or which may arise in the future, on account of or in any way related to or arising out of my participation. This waiver also applies to any children accompanying me.
HOW TO VOTE FOR THE WEEKLY SCORE, OR PROPOSE A SCORE
Go to this link (no login required): https://tinyurl.com/weekendciscore
Enter your name and click “Join.” Use up to three votes, using "dots" to vote for the one or ones you like the most. You can change your votes at any time. Votes are tallied at 5:00pm Pacific time the day before each session, and votes are then cleared.
Use "Add a Card" if you want to suggest a score. Please consider equity and access in designing and facilitating proposed scores. Scores can be suitable for a “roomful” of dancers, or for designated groupings such as duets, trios, etc. in Breakout Rooms.
If you propose a score and it is chosen, you are expected to arrive promptly at the start of the session (9:15am Pacific time) to answer any questions about the score.
Score submissions are moderated by the organizer(s).
Each week, three previously voted-upon candidate scores are put forward, and if there are any newly submitted scores that have never been candidates, one is included in the voting, on a first-submitted first-included basis.
A queue and record of past and newly-submitted scores is kept at: https://tinyurl.com/weeklyscorequeue
SOUND
You are generally invited to leave your microphone UNMUTED, unless there is excessive sound in your space, for privacy reasons, or unless muting is part of the score. Sharing the sound of our dancing helps us to share ourselves and our spaces. Unless there is excessive background sound in your space, the "Original Sound" setting on Zoom is preferred (ask for help during check in if you are unfamiliar with this setting). Please don’t engage in verbal conversation unless that is part of the score. You can turn down or turn off your own speakers if you prefer to hear no sound. There is generally no music (except the music of our dance sounds!)
WITNESSING (FOCUSED OBSERVATION AND LISTENING)
You are invited to witness during some scores, with an awareness of the impact that your witnessing has on others. For example, placing your face close to your camera can be disconcerting for others. It is also possible to witness with your camera off.
WHEN YOU ARE NOT PARTICIPATING
Use “Stop video” at any time. That makes you, temporarily, a "Non-video participant." Then, when others take advantage of the “Hide non-video participants” Zoom feature, they are treated to a screen full of actively engaged people, without empty rooms, still profile photos, or video of people not engaged in the dance.
CHAT
Chat is enabled only for communication with the host.
CONTACT FORM TO REACH ZACH PINE, ORGANIZER