Contact & Improvisation
Cristóbal Racordon, Eryn Rosenthal, David Legue, Josefa Torres Cifuentes, Diego Clark Rojas, and Paula Aguirre in Sedimento: Ensayos de cuerpo y memoria (Sediment: Studies in Movement and Memory). Photo by Felipe Diaz Galarce + Eryn Rosenthal.
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Contact & Improvisation
with Eryn Rosenthal
Contact & Improvisation Class Party each Thursday in February. Come join me! 🤸🏽♀️🐳🦥 All bodies, abilities and backgrounds actively welcome. 🥳
❤️ Special price for full month:
Sign up for 3 classes, get 1 class free ❤️
We’ll be integrating improvisational skills alongside contact skills in weight-sharing, momentum, falling, spirals, lifts and lofts. Skill-building and games followed by jamming and co-creation. And mostly, we’ll be having Funnn. DM me your songs for the playlist. 🪄🎵
I look forward to dancing with you this Thursday!
💜 Eryn
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Contact and Improvisation
Thursdays in February, 7-9pm
115 Wooster St, 2F, NYC
🐬All levels welcome
$20 cash/venmo or
❤️ Full Month Special:
Buy 3 classes, get 1 class free ❤️
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Teacher Bio
Eryn Rosenthal is a choreographer, director and social practice artist. Her classes investigate listening and empowerment, play and joy as forces that shift what’s possible when we come together. Eryn’s body-based work examines questions of liberation and social fabric, dreams and meaning-making within local and international contexts, grounded in ongoing collaborations with artists and activists in Chile, South Africa, Spain, and the US. She is proud to be an active member of international contact improvisation (CI) teacher exchange networks, teaching and facilitating at the Freiburg Festival (DE), ECITE, the Market Theatre Lab (South Africa), La Universidad Complutense (Spain), Teatro Montealegre (Chile), UMass-Amherst and elsewhere since 2003. Eryn’s trauma-informed practice combines contact improvisation, oral history, poetry and experimental performance to examine intimate and historical aspects of socio-political change. Her ongoing series The Doors Project investigates transitions–political, social, personal– through site-based performance in different doorways around the world. She is also a founding co-director of the Sedimento Collaborative in Chile/NYC, co-developing Sediment: Studies in Movement and Memory.
Eryn collaborates with dance artists Tommy DeFrantz, María Cruz Planchuelo López, Nica Portavia and Oswaldo Marchiundo. She has also worked with choreographers Sello Pesa, Jennifer Monson and Sol Picó; poet Elizabeth Alexander; and documentary theater pioneer Anna Deavere Smith. Eryn’s research and performance have been recognized with awards from the Center for Artistic Activism for work on US voting rights, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain and an Open Society Institute President’s Grant to South Africa, among elsewhere. Eryn previously served as a King-Chávez-Parks Visiting Professor and inaugural Artist in Residence for Dialogue-Building and Inclusion Initiatives at the University of Michigan. She currently teaches at Yale University, with the original arts/humanities seminars Dance and Democracy: Movement Improvisation and Liberation Pedagogies, and Making Performance on Socio-Political Questions. www.erynrosenthal.com
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