TEACHING
UPCOMING TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS:
Advanced Contemporary Dance
BodyVox, Portland, OR
Tuesday, July 28 + August 4, 10-11:30am
Floorwork
Mondays through end of July, 7–8:30pm, Atrium, Portland, OR
Queer Affinity Contact Improvisation Class: skills and scores
New Expressive Works, Portland, OR
Tuesday, July 28, 6:30-8:30pm
Contact Improvisation for Queers & Allies
Atrium, Portland, OR
Saturday August 1, 10:30-12:30pm (register here) + Sunday, August 23 (register here), 10:30am-12:30pm
Somatic Improvisation
Atrium, Portland, OR
Sunday August 9 (register here), 10:30am-12:30pm
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RECENT TEACHING:
2026
Flow into Flying: A Contact Improvisation Workshop
Co-taught with Phoebe Harrison
FLOCK Dance Center, Portland, OR
Contact Improvisation for Queers and Allies
PDX CI +/- Festival & Atrium, Portland, OR
Contact Improvisation: An Introductory Workshop
Hosted by Berm
New Expressive Works, Portland, OR
Queer Affinity Contact Improvisation: Skills + Scores
New Expressive Works, Portland, OR
Contemporary Classes (substitute), Beginning–Advanced
BodyVox, Portland, OR
Contact Improvisation + Partnering Applications Workshop
Rooted Space, Chicago, IL
Portland Queer Contact Improvisation Festival
FLOCK Dance Center, Portland, OR
2025
Queer Contact Improvisation Jam + Mini-Class
FLOCK Dance Center & New Expressive Works, Portland, OR
Floorwork Series
Atrium, Portland, OR
Contact Improvisation Class Series at the Baker Building Floorwork Series
The Baker Building, April 24-May 29, Portland, OR
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COLLABORATIVE TEACHING WITH EMILY JONES:
2025
Dealing with Desires: What Wants to Happen?
Contact improvisation for people who feel ambivalent about contact improvisation
Nod Theater / Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation, Seattle, WA
Contact Improvisation Workshop
PWNW 25th Anniversary Celebration, Portland, OR
Rituals Tuesday Guest Series
Nod Theater, Seattle, WA
2024
Under-Dancing
PDX Contact Improvisation Festival, Portland, OR
2023
Bodymind Building: A Queer Affinity Contact Improvisation Workshop
Portland, OR and Olympia, WA
2022
“Contemporary” Class
A dance class with emphasis on labbing and questions
Performance Works Northwest, Portland, OR
2021
“What If We…”
A workshop for friends, partners, parents, and youth to practice moving together
Waterline Studio at Headwaters Theater, Portland, OR
“What I Don’t Yet Know, I Know”
An outdoor somatic workshop
PICA’s TBA Festival, Portland, OR
2020
Sensitive Systems (virtual)
A weekly dance class meant to take place at Waterline Studio (Portland, OR) and then moved to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic—offered late March-mid June, Portland, OR
Sensitive Systems
A three-hour workshop
Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, LA
2019
Living Room Practice
A workshop series offered as part of Art Klub NOLA’s Artist Residency, featuring contact improvisation, movement composition, and axis syllabus-based practices
Art Klub Nola, New Orleans, LA
2018
Living Room Practice
A two-part contact improvisation series
FLOCK Dance Center, Portland, OR
2017
“What Wants to Happen?”
A site-specific movement workshop facilitated on the Columbia Slough
Creek College, Portland, OR
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ADDITIONAL SOLO TEACHING:
2017
6-Week Contact Improvisation Class Series
Facilitated before the weekly contact improvisation jam
The Village Ballroom, Portland, OR