Spontaneous Composing
Saturday November 1st 9:30am -12:30am
at The Barn in Seekonk, MA (130 Jacob Street)
A guided process of unfolding for writers and makers, whether you are in need of inspiration to re-enchant your creative process or just curious to discover what wants to be moved and expressed in this moment of your life.
Led by Paula Sager and Stephanie Turner, teachers of body-based emergent practices.
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Fee $130. To register, email:
Contact Improvisation Sundays
Class Every Sunday 10:30am -12:00am
Next Live Music Jam: November, 23 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
at Main Street Martial Arts
Located at 1282 N Main Street Providence, RI
Contact Improvisation is an exploration of the body’s relationship to the physical forces that govern our motion while in physical contact with others. Contact Improvisation can be expressed as highly athletic exchanges – falling and flying through space, and also as quiet, mindful exchanges with very little motion. This wide range of movement potential makes CI safe and accessible to all bodies, ages, and abilities. Class includes a balance of skill training and improvisational exercises and games that test our ability to adapt and improvise in the moment, challenging in real-time, our functionality and creative choice-making. Learn more at Contact Improv Providence
Classes are taught by Stephanie and periodic guest artists – Cash or Venmo, sliding scale $15 – $20
Jam w/ Live music by Will Farrell – Cash or Venmo, sliding scale $20 – $30
PAST EVENTS
CI Fundamentals Workshop
Saturday, July 12th 9:30am – 6:30pm
at 8 Inman Street Cambridge, MA
Contact Improv Boston full day fundamentals workshop. We will study fundamental coordination patterns that support a reliable and playful relationship to the physical forces that govern our bodies in motion and also look at ways touch can enhance each other’s proprioception and build shared language.
experiments in togetherness
Sunday, June 8 + June 15 | 10:30am – 12:00
Located at 1282 N Main Street Providence, RI
at Main Street Martial Arts
Workshops facilitated by guest artist Lillian Ransijn + Stephanie Turner
Reveal your physical and creative instincts. Discover the depth + power of connecting through spontaneous physical dialogues. Integrate character building and clowning into your CI practice. All are welcome. Sliding scale $20 – 30
Lillian Ransjin: As a facilitator, I aim to create environments where we explore the depth, power, and intimacy of bodies moving together through space and time. I draw from my background in devised performance, choreography, and intimacy direction to foster consent-forward ensemble practices that honor each mover’s agency and boundaries. My approach centers on the joy of discovering connection, curiosity, and meaning-making through physical dialogue with others. I believe in celebrating the emergent possibilities that arise when bodies listen, respond, and support one another with presence and care. My practice is trauma-informed and rooted in an inclusive approach to creative collaboration. Through shared weight, momentum, and touch, we discover the profound simplicity and complexity of being human bodies in relationship. MFA in Devised Performance (UArts/Pig Iron), Movement Professor at UConn. www.lillianransijn.com (http://www.lillianransijn.com/)
Stephanie Turner: Some of the people I admire the most are haunted by a single question, the question evolves over time but it doesn’t change, not really… the essence stays the same. My life question dances around connection. Driven by my frustration with the limits I experience living here – in a body – on planet earth, I found great relief in working towards a playful relationship with physics and love to share what I have learned in hopes that other’s feel less bound by laws of physics and instead experience a more creative partnership with them.
Researching through the body, I’m continually surprised how physical and creative practices build new languages for connecting with others. My teaching is informed by many years of training in contact improvisation, various dance disciplines, martial arts, sports and choreography. Each discipline possesses valuable lessons and a unique vocabulary for connection to self, others and the environment. I found over time that as my functional and expressive vocabulary expanded, so did my capacity for vulnerability and my ability to exercise clear boundaries. It’s powerful to have a direct experience of this through the body in real time. I’m interested in how these skills are useful for art making and can also re-chant everyday life and relationships. Email turnermovingcomany@gmail.com for questions.
what we have, that’s enough
Saturday, May 24th 7:00pm
at Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
what we have, that’s enough is a series of five improvised performances curated by Studio 34’s artist-in-residence Jungwoong Kim. Each performance will present a different configuration of artists from diverse disciplines—dancers/movers, vocalists, instrumentalists, designers, visual artists—in spontaneous and continuous improvisations among two to five artists. They will explore what possibilities can emerge when various types of improvisers commit to being present for and responsive to one another. Short talks and informal discussions will invite audience members and performers to exchange thoughts and observations on how practices of improvisation can build awareness, trust, and connection.
This fifth and final performance in this series will feature Jungwoong and fellow dancers Stephanie Turner, Sarah Konner, Dan Safer, Kendra Portier, David Brick, Germaine Ingram, and Juliette Lee; musicians Bhob Rainey andJuan Castrillón; plus special guest chef artist Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews
Admission to this show is $10–$30 sliding scale. A reception will follow the performance. Tickets
Three Together
Friday, May 23rd 2:00 -5:00pm
at Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts
4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19143
Contact Improvisation workshop led by three dancers: our artist-in-residence Jungwoong Kim, and visiting artists Stephanie Turner and Sarah Konner. Over this three-hour session, participants will explore how bodies can meet, move, and flow as one.
Three Together also offers insights into Jungwoong Kim’s process for curating his what we have, that’s enough performance series, which has its final showing the following night.
REGISTRATION: Available through Studio 34
Contact Improvisation Class + Jam
Saturday, March 16th, 2024 | 6:00pm – 9:00pm
at Studio Exhale in Cranston, RI
Contact Improvisation class 6 – 8PM, taught by Stephanie Turner explores rolling landscapes of the body. We’ll be practicing low flying and passing weight through the center body. This class will be accessible to beginners and exercises will be scaled for more experienced CI practitioners. Jam will follow 8 – 9PM.
Contact Rebecca Foster for early registration and more info: rjfoster6@gmail.com. Class & Jam: Sliding scale $25 to $50. Jam Only: Sliding scale $15 to $25.
Motion State Arts Festival: AIRSTREAM
Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 | 7:30pm
at The Wilbury Theater in Providence, RI
Improvisational dance performers create instant choreography, following both predetermined and spontaneous rules of engagement.
Rachel Boggia (CT) . Heidi Henderson (RI) . Lila Hurwitz (RI) . Michelle Struckholz (RI) . Stephanie Turner (CT) With sounds by Andy Russ (RI)
Contact Improvisation Workshop
The Barn, 130 Jacob Street Seekonk, MA
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Full day workshop taught by Jungwoong Kim and Stephanie Turner. Experience the harmony of emptying and filling as we work to develop creative languages to expand our movement and thinking.
Contact Improvisation Class + Jam
Saturday, August 26th 2023 | 6:00pm – 10:00pm
at Studio Exhale in Cranston, RI
Contact Improvisation class 6 – 8PM, taught by Stephanie Turner followed by a Jam with live music by Will Farrell 8 – 10PM. Play on your creative and physical edges! By increasing our ability to playfully challenge and be challenged, we help each other grow and improve non-verbal listening skills that allow us to connect to our own impulses for movement as we coordinate with others and our environment.
Contact Improvisation Fundamentals
Saturday, September 2nd 2023 | 10:00am – 5:00pm
The Barn, 130 Jacob Street Seekonk, MA
Full day workshop taught by Stephanie Turner on the basic principles and practices of Contact Improvisation. In this workshop we will practice nonverbal communication, how to organize our weight around a shared center of gravity, and the fundamentals of falling and flying.
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Contact Improvisation Class at Fringe PVD
Saturday, July 22nd 2023 | 3:30am – 5:00pm
WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley Street
In this class we will primarily use improvisational scores and games to inspire playful ways into moving with a partner that include sharing weight and working with momentum and gravity. We will also look at creative strategies to activate the inherent wisdom our bodies possess: physical instincts for safety and spontaneous expression.
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Contact Improvisation Class
Saturday, June 17th 2023 | 6:30am – 9:00pm
Studio ONE – Lincoln, RI
Ecstatic Dance with DJ Tara Ma will follow an hour long contact improvisation class exploring cooperative and competitive play. All abilities and skills levels are welcome.
Spring Jam
Saturday, May 17th 2023 | 6:00am – 8:30pm
The Barn, 130 Jacob Street Seekonk, MA
Open Jam. All are welcome. Facilitated by Stephanie Turner.
Bodies of Knowledge: Full Day Workshop
Saturday, March 18th 2023 | 9:30am – 8:00pm
The Barn, 130 Jacob Street Seekonk, MA
Taught by Gisela Creus and Steph Turner at the Barn in Seekonk, MA. Workshop based in contemporary technique and contact improvisation. Live Music by Will Farrell. Limited Space. Registration is now open!
Contact Improvisation Class + Jam *Live Music
January 7th, 2023 | 6 – 10PM
at Studio Exhale in Cranston, RI
Contact Improvisation class 6 – 8PM, taught by Stephanie Turner followed by a Contact Improvisation Jam 8 – 10PM with live music played by Will Farrell. Steph and Will have been improvising together for the last four years around a shared interest in curating music and movement situations that facilitate a deep dive into our bodies and creative facilities. We look forward to sharing our experiments with you! All bodies are welcome.
The Haunted Cellar on Main Street
October 27 | 5 -9pm + October 28 – 29 | 6 – 10pm
at Bear Hands Brewery in Putnam, CT
Tickets at the door,
Black Pond Haunted Trail
October 21st | 6 -9pm
at Black Pond Brews in Killingly, CT
Tickets at the door
JAM Contact Improvisation + Performance
January 20th – 23rd
at the field center in Bellows Falls, VT
3 days of contact improvisation workshops, labs and open jams with Jungwoong Kim + Steph Turner. limited space. Registration opening November 15th.
Bodies of Knowledge: Full Day Intensive
December 11th | 10:00am – 3:00pm
at The Barn in Seekonk, MA
Taught by Gisela Creus and Steph Turner at the Barn in Seekonk, MA. Intensive based in contemporary technique and contact improvisation. Live Music. Limited Space. Early Bird Discount before November 24th!
Outdoor Adult Contemporary Dance
Taking a short Break! Start date TBD
at the Haus of Glitter Performance Lab + Parq
Balancing wildness and specificity, class will focus on bringing awareness to inner sensation as it paces creative expression to reveal the body’s instincts and inherent musicality. Full bodied dance phrases and integrated floor work will practice the coordination of effort and release in the body as a route to finding both our freest and deeply rooted dancing.
Contact Improv Providence
Mondays 7-9pm at 116 Calverly
Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one’s basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened. — early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s,
from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979
Weekly classes and jams are facilitated by Jason Woofenden, Stephanie Turner, Jeff Doff, Shura Baryshnikov and Alexa Barriga. Check out our full schedule and class descriptions – Contact Improv Providence
iTMRW
a 75-minute dance theater piece set to a live performance of a futuristic concept album by Arc Iris, premieres through The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T)
January 25th + 26th at Oberon in Harvard Square
March 13th at the Shea Center in Turner Falls
March 18th at the La Poisson Rouge in NYC
The year is 2080. iTMRW, the love story of Robert and his android partner, Jenny, unfolds against the backdrop of a world where advanced technology is both a source of, and a “cure” for human alienation: advertisements come in the form of “pop-up thoughts,” entire cities float on islands of trash, female forms are purchased and discarded at will, and aristocrats live in a state of debauchery and despair. The piece takes its title from iTMRW, the mega-corporation that produces and sells every single product known to humankind. Despite societal chaos, the human spirit persists in its quest for love.
Choreographed by Danielle Davidson and Performed by Gisela Creus, Jacob Reagan, Stephanie Turner, Ellen Oliver, Jessica Howard and Orlando Hernandez