Pros Workshop

Contact Improvisation w/Diego Romero and Olivia Shaffer

September 30, October 21 and November 25, 2022

These classes are for practitioners of Contact Improvisation with a basic understanding of the form. The focus of these classes will adapt with Olivia and Diego’s changing interests in the form in conjunction with their ongoing explorations. In short, these classes are a place to develop a deeper understanding by digging into concepts through practice, self-reflection, and inquiry. 

drop-in and EDAM class cards welcome

Prerequisites: have attended a minimum of 5 classes at EDAM.

Teacher Bios

Olivia and Diego share a long history of practicing together and have decided to join forces as teachers in order to provide a wider spectrum of knowledge for students and each other. What these two share is an interest in interpreting CI's formal, practical aspects as doorways into a kind of self understanding housed in embodiment, the flux of experience, and ecstatic temporality.

Olivia has a background in improvisation framed in Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals, Pilates, Feldenkrais, among many others. Diego’s background is in Existential philosophy and Phenomenology. Together, these two offer an approach to CI that interacts with a milieu of embodied practices as well as a philosophical framework from which they attempt to ground them.