Welcome to the Web home of contact improvisation for Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Southern California.

Weekly Jam

Every Sunday, 6:30pm-9:00pm (except Jan 1st 2011, No Jam)
Dance Home, 522 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401

Upcoming 2011 Classes and Events

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January 1st, 2012

No Jam!

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January 8th, 2012

Normal Jam resumes

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January 22nd, 2012

Extended Hours Live Music Jam with Tom Peters, Jam begins at6:30 with music beginning soon after 8:00pm.  Music Jam continues until nearly 10pm.

Tom Peters is a composer and performer who is well-known for his interpretations of contemporary music. For the past 4 years, Tom has combined his talents with his love of silent movies by creating original scores through looping electronics, weaving a series of layered loops in the moment to create dense textures that underline the action on the screen. He has previously presented Der Golem and The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari at the Branson; Pandora’s Box is Tom’s third film. He will present The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock’s first masterpiece, on October 23, 2010 at the Branson.

Tom is a member of Southwest Chamber Music, the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and Ensemble Green, and is on the faculty of the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music. He has been featured in a series of solo concerts at Boston Court since 2004.

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Sunday January  29th, 2011

Be and/or Bring a Begi nner Class taught by Stefan Fabry 6:30-7:30pm with the jam continuing until 9:00pm

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About Stefan Fabry

Stefan Fabry has been studying dance since the early 90ties of the last century, building organically on his early training in martial arts. He began his intensive dance training with Tanz Projekte Köln, where he trained full time for three years under the guidance of James Saunders, Rob McWilliams, and Frey Faust. Today, he studies, assists, and collaborates with Rudy Perez, his dance mentor since 1997, and has performed with Perez at Orpheum Theater. 2007 he has been invited as an assistant teacher to the ADF - North American Dance Festival at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

A versatile, committed performer with a powerful presence, Fabry has performed at venues across Southern California including REDCAT, Pasadena City College, and Highways Performance Space. His evolving body of original choreography includes the critically acclaimed solo “Gonna Stay” (2003) and the full-length piece “We Will Go Outside Where The Wild Wind Blows” (2006). Fabry draws on improvisational dance as a key inspiration.

He has studied Contact Improvisation (CI) for over 15 years beginning with Rusty Lester, and performed CI extensively with Shel Wagner Rasch and Stephanie Nugent at venues such as the West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival (WCCIF) and the Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival. He taught a one year Contact improvisation Curriculum in Culver City and is being invited to teach on the West coast (Loyola Marymount University, UCLA, San Diego, Bay Area) on a regular basis.

Stefan started dancing Tango after seeing it danced on the street by Mitra Martin and Moti Moses Buchboot with whom he then started out learning. Continued learning from numerous Argentine teachers while traveling, and has been influenced most by ‘8th Style’ mastermind Jaimes Friedgen; and as a constant companion/ teacher Mitra Martin. He is teaching in Los Angeles since 2005 together with Mitra, building a committed and solid dance community. He has been performing Tango in numerous local venues since beginning 2006.

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