CALENDAR
North Park DanceJam
Solstice Rain Dance Photo Album
January 22
DJ: Mitchell
Theater/Comedy/Dance Improv with Adam, 8-9pm
DanceJam starts at 9pm.
January 29
DJ: guest DJ
Live-music/Contact Improv Jam at 8pm, followed by DanceJam at 9pm.
Welcome to DanceJam San Diego
DanceJam's Mission
To provide a safe, respectful, and non-judgmental dance environment in which to have fun; to foster community around the human body in motion; and to re-connect us with the playful child inside.
DanceJam is a by-product of the expressive arts movement that began in the early '70s along with the post-modern and contact improvisation dance movements. Here in San Diego County, our community has been coming together in the dance for over thirty-five years. We meet three times a week – on Friday nights in North Park, and on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights in Encinitas.
All of our jams are volunteer-run, barefoot boogie, open-floor dances that are operated by our action team members for people who love to dance and express themselves through movement. Our weekly spaces are a safe, playful and friendly alternative to the club scene.
Click the photo or this link to see DanceJam photo albums.
You don't need to get dressed up or worry about being cool. You don't have to be graceful or have studied dance. All you have to do is like to move your body and have fun. You can dance alone or dance with others -- you choose whatever you need to feel comfortable on the dance floor.
Rotating DJs spin a wide variety of dance tunes from many different genres -- from world-beat, to disco, to swing, to hip-hop, to boogie. The music changes all night long offering a variety of moods and beats to dance to.
As one of our regular dancers puts it, "It's like when you turn up the stereo and dance in your living room just because you need to dance -- except that there's a bunch of other people doing the same thing!"
Why not stop by and check it out?
DanceJam San Diego
Every Friday Night in North Park
9pm-midnight
Cost: $7/adult; $4 under 12
Earlybird Special:
$5 before 9:30pm
Eveoke Dance Theatre
2811 University Avenue, North Park 92104
two blocks west of the North Park Sign
click here for a directions and a map
Bonus Hour: 8-9pm
$10 includes admission to DanceJam
Classes/jams are for everyone regardless of skill level.
Movement Classes
Second & Fourth Fridays, 8 to 9pm
NOTE: Classes are suspended for the month of December and will resume in January.
A variety of movement classes are offered in the hour preceding DanceJam on the second and fourth Friday of every month. These classes are all designed to help you explore new ways to move, or deepen your experience within your movement.
With humor and candor, we explore simple techniques that get us moving, first individually, and then towards contact with others. You will only be expected to perform what you are capable of, or wish to. Cara promises that, if anything at all, you will have fun.
Cara Cadwallader is a movement practitioner who, with great encouragement and positive energy, will attempt to coax you out of your shell.
Improv Jam with live music
First & Third Fridays, 8 to 9pm
NOTE: Regular 8pm jams are suspended for the month of December and will resume in January. Please join us for a special Christmas night jam beginning at 8pm.
On first and third Fridays of each month, we invite local musicians to provide a living soundtrack to our movement. These interactive jams are open to anyone who comes ready to play, feel and be in the moment, whether you're beating a drum, vocalizing or moving through space (or all of these). This living, two-way conversation between sound and movement has been described as "supernatural" and "deeply connecting."
DanceJam San Diego (North Park) is produced by Whole Being, Inc.
Dance Church Encinitas
Sundays. 11am-1pm
Encinitas
Cost: before 11:30am $5; after 11:30am $7
The Performing Arts Workshop
1105 2nd street, Encinitas 92024
(enter from J St, into the parking lot)
Click here for a map
Every Sunday we invite you to move to a variety of rhythms... to sweat your prayers, create a devotional stomp, play with peaceful passion, dance alone... with others... or with the dance toys, join in the community feeling, kids welcome.... And on the first Sunday of the month we have no toys and no talking, to encourage a more meditative approach.
Encinitas Community Boogie
Tuesday Nights
Movement Class: 8pm to 9pm;
Jam: 9 to 11pm
Cost: Class and Jam $10. Jam only $5
Click here for a map
The purpose of the classes is to increase our range of choices in movement and interaction and to cultivate specific kinds of body awareness, technique and group coherence. Each class will focus on different aspects of movement and dance, ranging from contact improv, authentic movement, acroyoga, dance tools and toys, internal energy work etc. Please be on time for the class.
Bring your hoops, chiffon, dance toys and playful self to this north county jam.
Get on the Jam mailing list or call 760.942.2907 for info about each class.
