Force and Flow

03/11/2025

Mid-Hudson friends - I'll be back teaching and dancing in the neighborhood for the first time in over a year this coming Sunday. Please join me at the beautiful Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice for this class and jam - I'll be excited to see you again!

Our second round of Contact Improv will take place MARCH 16th!
The class will be a bit later than our regular times, from 5 - 7:30 PM.
Join us and our facilitator Ophra Wolf for an evening of much-needed community and release 🕺 Newburgh Open Movement

Contact Improvisation
1st and 3rd Sundays

5 - 6 PM ➡️ Lab
6 - 7:30 PM ➡️ Jam
$5-$25 Sliding Scale
All experience levels are welcome!

Bio:
Ophra Wolf is a dancer, somatic educator, multimedia artist and interfaith minister. She is dedicated to a lifelong study of movement and embodied intelligence as a vehicle for personal and cultural transformation. Improvisation is her core practice, and Contact Improvisation in particular is foundational to her development as an artist. She has taught and performed internationally and is the creator of Newburgh Open Movement. Having studied and performed with Improvisational masters from around the world, including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, and Mario Biagini to name a few, as well as with healing masters from the worlds of Qi Gong, shamanism, and various forms of bodywork, she’s privileged to spread the gospel of playful, embodied presence as the key to healthy relations with all beings.

Come on out!

10/10/2022

NYC PEOPLE! I'm teaching the class and staying to dance for the Wednesday Jam at 100 Grand Street this Wednesday, 10/12 organized by the inimitable Elise Knudson. Join me for my first teaching appearance in NYC in AGES!

This jam is open to all who respect community guidelines and are vaccinated.

10/04/2022

09/22/2022

Hello friends who love to dance and friends who wish they were dancing more! Jungwoong Kim and I (Ophra Wolf) are hosting the upcoming Fall Jam at Earthdance, October 20 - 23.

Besides the obvious draws of heated wood floors, a wood burning sauna, beautiful woods with Fall colors to roam in and three healthy meals a day, there will be childcare available and there are still a number of deeply discounted Equity and Accessibility tickets and sliding scale options - you can join for as little as $150 and we'd be so thrilled to have you there. This is a community gathering and open to all levels, abilities and ages.

If you have questions, don't hesitate to message me, but get yourself signed up soon and it's filling up quickly.

Falling Leaves: Compost Tea October 20, 2022 - 3:00pm to October 23, 2022 - 2:00pm Programming category: Contact Improvisation JamsRegister Here This year’s annual Falling Leaves Jam is fed by seasonal motifs of transformation and regeneration, an opportunity to celebrate and contemplate with eve...

04/21/2021

This Saturday, we're thrilled to have Aaron Latos back with us for our April edition of Online Open Movement! Baby Asa is no baby anymore, we hope he joins with his baby sister 😍 Bring your inner baby too, feel your joints get soft and work your giggle as we move just the way we want to the live music.
Event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/143304361076005/