Washington DC Contact Improv
When Dance Place is not open we still meet, and take payment ourselves. You can use an online payment service below or bring cash to the jam. We suggest $15 but pay what you feel you can afford – all are welcome regardless of ability to pay.
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Welcome!
This site is for coordinating Washington DC metro area contact improvisation, particularly the weekly Sunday DC jam.
See the next section for up-to-date Sunday jam status.
See The Sunday Jam pages for practical jam details, including location, times, and also a sense of what we do.
See the Contact Improvisation page for info about CI.
Use the PayPal box in the right top of the page to pay online for jam attendance.
Sunday Jam Current Status
(The Sunday Jam is the place for specific info about the DC jam which has been happening almost every Sunday since 1982.)
Latest Schedule / Venue Exceptions
We're on our regular Sunday jam schedule (see section just below), with these upcoming variations:
April 20: At our regular studio (Dance Place, BAL) but the Dance Place registration desk is closed, pay DC-CI directly.
Regular Schedule and Venue
The Sunday Jam and class are regularly held at Dance Place from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, continuing through 2025.
We maintain current status on various pages here and a log of our status notes. Follow the Sunday jam mailing list and/or Facebook group for active updates.
COVID-19: We will be following Dance Place COVID-19 policies. Masks and COVID vaccination are optional. Please do not attend if you are feeling sick!
We post about extraordinary changes for situations like venue outages here and on the DC-CI mailing list and in the DC Contact Improv Facebook group.
We post status updates at the top of this section as situations develop.
We update this section with anticipated schedule, venue, or other changes that affect the jam. (Until the pandemic such changes were very rare - barring extraordinary circumstances the jam happens every Sunday of the year.)
See the Sunday Jam status log for the update history.
Every Sunday (with exceptions noted in the status section above) we have a Contact Improvisation Jam or Underscore. See the Sunday Jam page for details.
On the first Sunday of each month we share an Underscore at our regular time, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. (Please be on time - that helps the Underscore work well.)
On the other Sundays we have a class between 2:00 and 3:00 pm and a regular jam from 3:00 to 5:00.
The classes are led by experienced CI teachers from our group. We're dedicated to help newcomers and experienced dancers alike develop and deepen their skills and understanding of Contact Improvisation.
The classes lead into a jam – a free-form gathering to explore contact improv – that continues from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. There often is a closing circle during the last half hour.
Please be present by 2:00 if you're attending the class or the Underscore!
We often have a closing circle around 1⁄2 hour before the end of the jam.
See the Sunday Jam page for details and guidance.
DC-Area CI-related Activities
The East Coast Jam↗︎ — a twice-annual 4 day CI retreat, Spring and Fall, 1.5 hrs outside DC
See the Baltimore CI Facebook group↗︎ and specifically the Baltimore CI Facebook group events listing↗︎ for our neighbor's CI events. (It looks like the Baltimore CI Calendar/Directory↗︎ is no longer being used.)
Ecstatic Dance DC↗︎ Facebook Page
Bethesda 5 Rhythms↗︎ Facebook Page
DC-Area CI-related Resources
DC-CI Mailing List — for Sunday Jam coordination and logistics
DC Contact Improvisation Community↗︎ Facebook Group
Not familiar with Contact Improvisation? See our Contact Improv page for some introductory info.
