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What is a Contact Improvisation Jam like?

 JUST ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE JAM Contact Improv Dance-- a touch-based movement, art-sport and mindfulness practice; A new paradigm for whole-self social relating. Experienced and written by Harmony Gates 3/14/2014 Not me, but beautiful men dancing CI Its Thursday night and I show up at the Thursday Jam. It's 8:30 pm. As I enter the dance space, the ballroom at the Finnish Hall, a bright, sexy young man makes direct and steady eye contact with me (he obviously knows me?) He showers me with recognition and affection. I don't recognize or remember him, but I welcome his connection and engagement. We sit and talk until he gets up to greet someone else. I put on my kneepads and toe-less sox, my contact improv dancing 'gear'. I'm sitting on a bench that runs along an entire side of the hi ceilinged 'Finnish Hall'. There is a matching bench that runs along the other side of the room. The floor is a beautifully rich hardwood that is smooth as silk. The ceiling is high