Greensboro Contact Jam
The Greensboro Contact Jam IS BACK in 2025!
Christine and Todd are excited to announce the return of the Greensboro Contact Jam!
Jams take place in the Greensboro Cultural Center at 200 N Davie St, downtown Greensboro.
For more information:
greensborocontactjam@gmail.com
These Jams are free and open to the public, no matter skill level or experience. Donations are accepted to help bring in guest teachers.
"Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Practice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner."
—early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s,
from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979
Todd Fisher and his wife Christine Kiernan Fisher founded The Greensboro Contact Jam in 2008. As co-facilitators and skills instructors, they continue their practice and share it with Greensboro and the greater North Carolina community. Todd and Christine come to you with over 30 years of practice- some apart, some together. They offer these classes and jams free to the public and welcoming of all levels. Experienced mover or first-timer,
we’ll bring the group together to move.
