The Glasgow Jam

Hello Everyone, Welcome to the post-winter era! As the snow finally stops falling, we hope that the only falling that happens for a while will be of bodies in the jams (along with rolling, flying, and ALL THE MOVES!) as we all start to come back to life a little more each day...;-) We had a fantastic workshop with Tony Mills in March. The clarity and precision of Tony's approach helped unravel the mystery of the hips in CI and helped us to fly. Super big thanks to Tony and to everyone who came ;-)  And we have more attractions coming our way. First of all, the upcoming jams, with an exciting variety of locations and practitioners! As always please note the times and locations as these do vary. Here's our schedule leading up to the summer break (July/August): JAMS: 28 April (Saturday) 10.30-14.00 CCA / Theatre: Special BIG Jam with Nina Enemark and sound by Zoe Katsilerou. There will be more space to move so join us in spreading our spring wings and spread...

‘TO BE THE APPLE’ ‘When an apple fell on his head, Isaac Newton was inspired to describe his three laws of motion. These became the foundation of our ideas about physics. Being essentially objective, Newton ignored what it feels like to be the apple.’ These are the opening lines by Steve Paxton in the film  Fall after Newton  which we watched together this month. It was great to be reminded about the original curiosity behind the development of Contact Improvisation. It was also very inspiring to watch the birth and development of this form, mainly through the bodies of Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton. So January is already behind us… the first jam of the year with  Monika  and a great two day workshop with  Nerea  and  Zoe  are also already in the past. Beautiful work, great discoveries and fun…. Thanks girls ;-)   We are moving on towards the light… We have more exciting opportunities coming up. Here is what’s...

Dear Jammers, We,  Nina Enemark   and  Monika Smekot,   are very excited and honoured to be writing to you as the new co-directors of  The Glasgow Jam. Big Thank You to co-founder of TGJ  Penny   Chivas  and co-director  Laura   Gonzales  who put their hearts into taking care of this special space. Thanks for your dedication, perseverance and creativity. We wish you all the best and look forward to continuing to dance together! We also want to join Penny and Laura in thanking outgoing board members  Rosina Bonsu  and  Ron Montgomery  for all their support for the jam over the years. We are very pleased to welcome  Emilia Sosnowska  as a new member of the board, joining  Sheila McCubbin  and Emmie McKay. *************   We have been quite busy recently finding our feet in the new roles and are excited by the wind of change coming to The Glasgow Jam. This year we wou...