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Performing at Moisture Fest Benefit Jan 18, 2020

Seattle Moisture Festival presents our Red Carpet Party, this year’s annual roof-raising, FUNdraising party.

We love the community that supports this festival so we want to roll out the Red Carpet and invite you to attend as the stars you are! Dress up in style, pose for the photographers, and enjoy our gala, dance party, and variety show.  Dance to the 10 piece Rhythm & Blues band, The Highsteppers. Variety acts include: Pam Severns, puppeteer from L.A.,

Christian Swenson, Human Jazz, Alex Zerbe, madman juggler, and Chrysalis Circus aerial. Close out the evening with Fremont’s iconic clown, Godfrey Daniels, tossing his glorious red balloons around the Palladium in celebration of the upcoming 2020 festival.

Tickets $50 advance
$60 door
All Ages
General Admission

https://moisturefestival.strangertickets.com/events/102535566/red-carpet-party

Contact Improvisation Fundamentals Classes starting up again…!

In Velocity’s Steward Studio:

I’m teaching Contact Improvisation Fundamentals Classes again…!

6 Sundays from 12:30pm – 2pm

January 19 > Feb 23.

Cost: 1 drop-in class card / $18

4 class cards / $60

8 class cards / $112 

(Class fee includes free entry to the jam that follows!)

Velocity Dance Center  /  1621 12th Avenue, Suite 100  /  Seattle, WA  98122

Come dance Contact Improvisation! Whether brand new and curious about the form, or an old hand looking to deepen or broaden your practice, this class is for you! You’ll leave with material to explore in the movement jam that follows and richer sense of the principles and possibilities in Contact Improvisation.

Taught by Christian Swenson (Facilitator of the Velocity Sunday Movement Jam 2-4:30pm every Sunday)

Christian has been dancing CI since the early 1980’s. A veteran improviser of many styles he brings a heightened sense of play to this practice.

In these classes we will explore weight sharing, muscle tone, momentum, varieties of touch, controlled falling, lifting and being lifted and nurturing a healthy sense of trust.

Interview & “Jabberwock”

My good friend, Jens Wazel, interviewed me and recorded a short performance while I was in Berlin last spring. Enjoy….

https://www.jenswazelphotography.com/Series/Stories/Christian-Swenson

Sound Improv Live Radio show

Sound Improv Live show:
Thanks to the good work of Dharma Dailey at Sound Improv Live!  I get to share nearly an hour of Improvised Vocal recordings from the last few years.  Due to circumstances the show won’t be “live” but they’re all improv with my-selvesand other friends.
Each voicing a world, each person an opening, each place offering a reflection of us.
Christian Swenson & Friends (Dharma Dailey, Kate Thompson, Chris Davis)

Join us August 12, 2018, 9:00 to 10:00pmon SPACE 101.1 FM Seattle for Sound Improv Live!

Here is a link to the station’s live stream: https://www.space101fm.org/listen

The show will also be on Soundcloud and the SoundImprov.org website, and shared the link to the website on Facebook.
https://www.soundimprov.org/podcast/

Contact Improvisation Jam

Every Sunday from 2 – 4:30pm ($5 – $8) at Velocity Dance in Seattle http://velocitydancecenter.org

(I help facilitate this weekly jam, one of my favorite places to dance!)C & Lisa1

The Contact Improvisation/Movement jam is an open event, welcoming everyone. Jams have been happening around the world since the 1980’s, and typically include people across a broad range of experience. It’s not a class, but usually includes people happy to explore at whatever level, discuss questions, and if asked, provide guidance. If you’re willing to explore in order to find your way, the jam is a great opportunity to practice and enjoy contact improvisation.
We have a community FaceBook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/515785141799284/

Seattle CI Blogspot: http://seattlecontactimprovisation.blogspot.com/

Community CI news email at <SeattleContact@yahoogroups.com> 

For more info on this form: 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation 

or 

http://www.contactimprov.net/

 

Soundcloud!

Tossing it out there for free!!  You can find some of my newly recorded vocal music at https://soundcloud.com/humanjazz  This is simple a cappella singing in resonant stairwells and other locales.  Captured on the oh-so-easy iphone voice memo app.