Contact Improvisation with Kim Epifano
Saturdays | September 2 - 30, 2017
12:15-2:00pm
Drop-ins welcome. ODC class passes accepted, or pay a $15 drop-in fee per class.
Kim Epifano's class builds contact improvisation skills to open the imagination and the body to every dancer’s potential. Students explore their individual creativity, balance, and body awareness while learning to move in relation to their self, the floor, and a partner. By sharing weight, strength, space, and gravity, participants learn how to trust and be trusted while falling on and off the edges of their bodies. We will explore how the ending of one move is the beginning of another and how to utilize momentum to continue the progressive nature of the dance. Be prepared to sweat, have fun and enhance your dance!
Kim Epifano has a 30-year history as a choreographer, director, performer, vocalist, educator, curator, and collaborator. She is the Artistic/Executive Director of the San Francisco Company Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater since 1997, which creates thought-provoking, accessible dance performances, and educational programs, building understanding across cultures and ages. Kim’s work has been presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Switzerland’s TanzOlten Festival, Mad’Art Carthage in Tunis sponsored by the American Embassy, Ireland’s Croi Glan Integrated Dance Company and others; and garnered multiple Isadora Duncan Awards and nominations. She is Artist in Residence through YBCA in the SOMA district in SF at Bessie Carmichael School. She is the co-artistic director of Mudd Butt Mystery Theater Troupe and Mudd Butt International. She received her MFA in Choreography from UC Davis. She was a guest and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and UC Davis among others. For more information go to www.epiphanydance.org