The Glasgow Jam

CI WORKSHOP WITH PENNY CHIVAS Co-Director of @TGJ and international CI teacher LIMITED PLACES SO DON'T DELAY YOUR BOOKING!! This workshop considers the possibilities for composition within CI.  We'll take our practices of working closely with a partner into choices of space, rhythm and dynamics and understand how they can sit as part of a much larger composition. Exploring our spatial arrangements in solos, duos and ensembles we can begin to compose where and how we move and how this impacts the composition of the group.  We will begin to understand how a potential audience may see the space, bringing our CI practice into composed structure.  A workshop for those looking to bring a sense of composition and choice their CI/Jam practice. Saturday 28th November 2015 12noon - 6pm @Kinning Park Complex £30 - bookings before 31st October £40 thereafter To book your place please email us at: theglasgowjam@gmail.com wi...

New Jammers Participant Blog Entry 3 - 27th June 2015 Reflecting on the New Jammers programme, I feel really lucky to have had this opportunity to explore CI facilitation in such a nourishing and stimulating environment. I felt a huge amount of engagement and support from everyone involved in the programme, which has helped me to develop my ideas and approach to facilitating in a way that would not otherwise have been possible. The collaboratively led jam at the end of the programme made it clear to me how much we had come together as a group and learnt to listen to each other; for me it was a great lesson, as well, in trust and giving up control – as we were only responsible for 5 minutes of the warm-up each – which I hope I can take away with me and make part of my facilitation practice in general. This final jam showed me how rewarding and enjoyable collaborative creative tasks can be when there is this level of trust, support and listening; I hope to continue to be p...

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New Jammers Participant Blog  Entry 2 - 7th June 2015 The second third and fourth meetings have been very positive. In session 2, the underscore offered a gradual start with building arrivals, to the body, to a sense of weight and support within the space, and building to awareness of our possibilities for movement in our own reaches (kinesphere) and then shifting towards interactions with other New Jammers. I find the pace and flow of developing towards the Jam using this method is gradual and unforced and offers pathways  to visit, reject, like, revisit, restart, connect, disconnect… and potentially, within the mind, in a less forced or cluttered way than can sometimes be the case. Getting the chance to Jam together offered a chance for more bonding and this, I felt, helped to deepen the engagement with the group. My attention is engaged with on going developing awareness of the underscore and with the many different approaches to the warm up. Towards sessio...