The Glasgow Jam

Dear Jammers, Well... How to begin... And how to end ... Laura and Penny are stepping aside from the running of @TheGlasgowJam, and the jam this month is our last. For Laura, this represents the work of the past two years, and for Penny, the last four. While we are looking forward to other projects (and to continue dancing), we would like to acknowledge all the support the community (that is, each one of you) has offered us to make the jam happen, and most importantly the dancing and playing that has taken place as a result. We would also like to warmly thank past and present board members over this time: Kim Simpson, Lindsay Keenan, Rosina Bonsu, Ron Montgomery, Sheila McCubbin, Emmie McKay as well as, of course, Tom Pritchard, who, together with Penny, is one of the founding directors. We also thank our facilitators, who have led us brilliantly, creatively and safely into jams. We are very grateful to Dominic Snyder for our logo, which we wear proudly on our t-shirt...

Dear Jammers, Well, in some sense, the end is upon us, and in another the start is drawing close. We are currently preparing to change jamming hands to Monika Smekot and Nina Enemark... so do stay tuned in for celebrations and also beginnings. Dominic Snyder has also had a fantastic exhibition at The Glad Cafe, selling several pictures at the opening... but if you missed it - it's now packed up. There are but three jams left with Penny and Laura at the helm. December 17th will be Penny's last jam after FOUR years of running with both Tom Pritchard and Laura Gonzalez so sure to be a lively one! Also in December, Penny is off to Tehran, Iran to volunteer teaching a two day CI workshop, and then into the first women's capoeira event in this country. There is an Indiegogo campaign if you'd like to help, or even share on social media (although writing "Dance" everywhere on Facebook would not be overly helpful - "movement" is a more appropriat...

Dear Jammers, As some of you may be aware, we (Laura Gonzalez and Penny Chivas) recently made the decision to step away from directing the work of @TheGlasgowJam.  We would like to publicly thank everyone who has supported us during these years, Four for Penny and two for Laura. We would also like to offer our appreciation to Monika Smekot and Nina Enemark who are stepping in and up to guide the direction of @TheGlasgowJam from January 2018. Whilst there will be time over the next few months to both celebrate the achievements of @TGJ and welcome in this change of dancing hands, we make this public now so that 2018 can begin to be shaped and directed by these two capable dancers. Stay tuned! This month, we had a fantastic 3-day workshop with the internationally renowned theatre maker, mover and all round wonderful practitioner Nicolas Nuñez from Mexico. Those of us who were there know how life changing it was and we hope to work with him again sometime. We also opene...

Dear Jammers, Did you have a good summer? We have! Things have been quiet on the jamming front but Penny has been performing in Edinburgh with Lyra’s Lone Wolf. The reviews have been amazing! Laura has been traveling around Europe all summer and we are both ready to start our jams again. This newsletter is to remind you of all the lovely goodies we have prepared for you this Autumn. This will beat the summer blues! Penny will be leading the class in London on the 16 th September . If you are around do drop in to dance with her! Our @TGJ jams resume on Sunday 17 September with the wonderful Niamh O'Loughlin. We are so delighted to welcome her as a facilitator (she already is one of our regular jammers). Niamh is currently a student at the Space in Dundee and she will share learnings from her dance training in the CI class. What a treat! The full programme , till December, is here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/p/jam-calendar.html Th...

We would like to invite you to celebrate Dominic's work (who designed our beautiful logo) on 5 October at 6pm at the Glad Café. If you cannot make it then, pop over any day until the 29th to see his work and, maybe, buy one of his prints or one of our new red t-shirts! The work for this exhibition at the Glad Café stems initially from an intense and sustained period of exploratory and experimental drawing in a context of dance and movement. This grew through collaborative work with contemporary dancer Penny Chivas, working under the name of The Snyver Project. Together they identified a common interest in their work and found ways to share and merge the kinaesthetic dialogue of their respective creative practices. Over a period of some four to five years they have jointly created many live performances fusing together the processes of Chivas’s dance and movement with Snyder’s drawings, and developments in print and sculpture. These have been presented at venues including P...

Dear Jammers, We know … We never keep a regular time for the newsletter. We are improvisers and love surprises! We hope you do too because this newsletter is full of them. After our wonderful and well attended (if a little controversial) Global Underscore led by Penny on 24 June, @TGJ has gone on a bit of a jamming break. We are not idle, though, and we are working backstage getting opportunities ready for you for th is Autumn. Our jams resume on Sunday 17 September with the wonderful Skye Reynolds. The full programme, till December, is here: http://theglasgowjam.blogspot.co.uk/p/jam-calendar.html We are delighted, honoured and humbled to be hosting Nicolás Nuñez , an international and world leading theatre and movement practitioner (see flyer below). He will be working with us on a weekend intensive for 3 days. Tickets are going fast and the early bird booking closes on 1 August. Get your place soon! We have made it very affordable (£130!) and the group is sma...

World renowned Nicolás Nuñez wiull be in Glasgow at the end of September and we are hosting a 3 day workshop with him. Bookings are open and there are only a few places!

Dear Jammers,  Yes, yes, yes … We are a little bit late with our newsletter this month but we have good reasons! On Saturday 6 May, we hosted  Robert Anderson , who delivered a sold out class as part of Dance International Glasgow. This was jamming at its best: fun, warm, creative and a little crazy. Thank you Robert for sharing your vast knowledge with  @TGJ ! Our next jam is on Sunday 14 May and  Mark Rietema  will be leading a class 12-1 at the CCA Theatre, followed by a jam till 3.30pm. Mark was with us at the last DIG so some of you had a chance to already experience  h is wonderful CI and Mind Body Centering skills. Don’t miss it! DIG is still in full swing until 21 May.  Our director Penny Chivas and @TGJ facilitators Sara Bizzoca and Jer Reid premiered   Decline  on Tuesday 25 April.  Congratulations on a wonderful piece! They will be  touring  Italy very soon. There is still lots coming up, som...