Upcoming Events
Class: Hip Hips Hooray!
April 1, 2025 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improv Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Bringing awareness to the joints and muscles of the pelvis, we will connect to the movement possibilities of our hips to find stability and fluidity in our relationships with gravity.
Class will include awareness prompts, skill building, and laboratory style experiments. Accessible to beginners and seasoned dancers.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
May 3, 2025 4pm - 7pm
SomArt at the Hive,
561 Windsor St 4th Floor,
Somerville, MA 02143
Contact Improvisation for the Professional Contemporary Dancer
In this workshop, we will practice the core elements of contact improvisation and strategies to participate in jams.
Workshop Topics: Initiating/Ending, Weight Sharing, Listening, Developing Trust, Rolling Point of Contact, Skin/Muscle/Bone
Sliding Scale: $30 - $50. Payments can be made via Venmo:@andreamuniz25 or cash.
For questions email Andrea Muñiz at andreamuniz.move@gmail.com
Past Events
Friday, March 7pm - 10pm
Vortex Ecstatic Dance
Spring Opening
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St, Cambridge MA 02138
Believe it or not, Spring is coming closer! Come and join us in welcoming its energy through the March Vortex Dance. Our theme will be "Spring Opening": as the snow begins to melt and nature starts preparing for its blooming magic, we want to invite you to dive into the dance and open with us to new inspiration, possibilities and connections.
We start the evening with a cacao ritual to ground and become present. Andrea Muñiz will lead a warm-up inspired by contact improvisation. Followed by a Spring ecstatic dance journey with DJ Luminus .
The night will conclude with a beautiful musical soundscape by Asa Benjamin who will sing and play his guitar for us.
We are looking forward to opening with you!
Admission: $20,- $25 sliding scale
We encourage you to buy tickets ahead ( we sold out last time ) -
Tickets link: https://www.ecstaticdancema.com/event-details/vortex-so
Schedule:
7 pm ~ Door opens
7:15 ~ Cacao Ritual (we close the door during the ritual)
7:30 ~Warm up - Andrea Muñiz
8 pm ~ Ecstatic Dance Beats -DJ Luminus
9:40 pm ~ Soundscape with Asa and closing connections
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Our Covid & health policy: if you have any flu like symptoms or test positive for Covid please stay home. Testing for Covid before the event is encouraged, but not required. Anyone is welcome to wear a mask during the dance or use our "dance alone" wristband available at the front desk. Thank you for your cooperation .
Vortex Dance requests:
~keep conversations off the dance floor
~keep phones away
~respect boundaries of others / seek consent
~dance barefoot or in dancing shoes
If you are interested in a work exchange for help with set up, please contact us in advance. Spaces are limited.
Invite your friends and see you on the dance floor.
Class: Back to Basics
September 24, 2024 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improv Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Class to include guided investigations and exercises around the principles of CI.
Rolling point of contact, listening with the body, and weight sharing. We will also practice our observation skills.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
Midday: Rough Drafts
July 13, 2024 2:00pm, 8:00pm
Arrow Street Arts
2 Arrow St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Andrea will be performing in Dara Capley´s Eucalyptus and Amelia Estrada's Spanky.
Class: Hip Hips Hooray!
July 2, 2024 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improv Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Bringing awareness to the joints and muscles of the pelvis, we will connect to the movement possibilities of our hips to find stability and fluidity in our relationships with gravity.
Class will include awareness prompts, skill building, and laboratory style experiments. Accessible to beginners and seasoned dancers.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
Dances In Progress
May 31, 2024 7:00pm
Jackson Dance Lab at Tufts University
50 Talbot Ave, Medford MA 02155
Modern Connections presents Dances in Progress: a showcase and feedback session that features choreographic work in progress. Tickets are free; donations are optional and welcome. Donated funds will be equally split between: 1) The choreographer who receives the Audience Choice Award 2) The choreographer who receives the Panel Selection Award.
The purpose of Dances in Progress is to create space for 6 local choreographers to test out their ideas, build their audience, and receive critical feedback while presenting an opportunity for audience members to engage in the dance making process.
Choreographers:
Ananth Udupa
Andrea Muñiz
Simba Toure
Miranda Lawson
Nicole Zizzi
Nko Fallou Fall
The goal of Dances in Progress is to offer resources to artists that include access to a performance venue at no cost, feedback on their piece from both local experts and the general public and photo and video documentation of their work that can be used for applications or promotional materials.
Dances in Progress is funded, in part, by Mass Cultural Council's Festivals & Projects grant.
BABYBABYBABY by Laila J. Franklin
May 16, 17, 18, 2024 8:00 pm and May 19 2:00pm
Martin Hall
527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
Andrea will be performing in this work.
BABYBABYBABY is a dance about dances about love. It is interested in aesthetics that communicate romance, infatuation, and desperation through an exploration of physical states that evoke those feelings in ourselves. It seeks to tap into feelings of budding romance, when falling in love is silly and fast and sexy and devastating and you are brilliant and stupid and spellbound. This work will be both virtuosic and intimate in nature, interested in companionship, partnership, and connection through carefully crafted scores of improvised performance. This dance is about the human impulse to respond—the first movement, the first urge, the first thought, while considering the ways that response can be learned, replicated, and approximated in performances of closeness and intimacy. At it’s heart, this is a work about exploring the ways we give and receive support and care, through a physical practice as well as the lens of love.
Boston WiP
April 6 6:00pm and 8:00pm
SomArts @The Hive
561 Windsor St, Suite 401a, Somerville, MA
Boston WiP is a low stakes platform for dance and performing artists to present movement driven work. Join us for an evening featuring eight new work-in-progress performances, all presented by local artists. The show will run twice with the same program. This installment of WiP will be presented in partnership with Somerville Arts Council’s SomArt Space Program!
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Andrea will be performing in Dara Capley's Eucalyptus.
BCA Dance Lab: Open Rehearsal
Mar 29, 2024 7:00pm
Martin Hall
527 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116
Undulating through tandem worlds of myths and memories, the work edges on feelings of glory, frustration, and resistance that can invigorate the witness to commemorate their own processes of becoming. exit strategy is devised by Andrea Muñiz in collaboration with movement artists Erica Codd García, Ana G Delgado Cruz, BaÅŸak Sıla Bengisu, Maude A Warshaw, and musician Daniel Nerger.
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This project is supported in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts, Dance Fund and the Boston Center for the Arts.
Nachmo Boston
Mar 28, 2024 8:00pm
The Foundry
101 Rogers St
Cambridge, MA 02142
Work in progress showing as part of Nachmo Boston
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Palatial Ranch Project is a portrait in collaboration with Charles Dietrich. The work manages the themes of loss around clearing out your parent's home.
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This is the first in a series of movement portraits constructed from people's experiences.
Class: Sharing the Weight
March 26, 2024 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improvisation Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Delve into the foundations of weight sharing to increase our physical awareness and develop skills to co-create the dance with each other and gravity. Suitable for dancers of all levels.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
March 19, 2024 6:30pm
890 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
WBUR: Celebrating accessibility in the arts
Join us for a night exploring and celebrating disability visibility in the arts. The evening will include performances from Abilities Dance Boston and SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Cost of Living." Tiziana Dearing, host of Radio Boston, will moderate a panel conversation about accessibility and disability advocacy in the arts with community leaders.
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Andrea will be performing "The Incitors" from Abilities Dance Boston's The Banned Ballet.
The Theremin Vignettes by Jessi Stegall
March 15, 2024 8:00 pm
Institute of Contemporary Art
25 Harborshore Drive, Boston, MA 02210
Global Arts Live Presents Jessi Stegall
Directed and choreographed by Boston-and-Chicago-based artist Jessi Stegall, The Theremin Vignettes is an ode to the late theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore. Set to Rockmore’s arrangements of classical scores for theremin, the dance-theatre piece explores themes of grief, remembrance, and devotion found throughout Rockmore’s life. Set in the form of choreographic vignettes made up of solos, duets, trios, and quartets with a cast of 11 dancers, the movement style blends ballet, contemporary, gesture, and spoken word.
Class: The Space in Between
January 29 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improvisation Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Class will focus on using space as a fundamental aspect of our dance. We will engage with an awareness of directions, levels, pathways, and shapes to foster creative group and individual compositional choice-making.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
Midday Movement Series
Rough Drafts: Dara Capley
January 28, 2024 7:00 pm
Arrow Street Arts
2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 01238
Dara Capley, MIDDAY's January Rough Drafts artist, will present an excerpt of her contemporary dance piece, “Eucalyptus,” with a cast of four dancers.
"Eucalyptus" uses the life cycles of the long-leaf pine tree and the eucalyptus plant as a starting point to explore the relationships between grief and growth, the different paths growth can take, and the concept of necessary destruction or violence. Both plants need to be set on fire to achieve the next cycle in their growth; pine can exist in its first, grass-like stage indefinitely unless set ablaze. The first iteration of this work was presented at Somerville ArtBeat in 2023; the work you will see at the Rough Drafts showing is meant to be a direct continuation of that piece, building towards an evening-length work.
Crescent Rolls
Dec 12, 2023 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improvisation Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Crescents, spirals, and roll-ups are such delightful and delicious patterns! Indulge in the fluidity of these twists and turns… no baking required.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )
ADB: The Banned Ballet
Nov 3 and 4, 2023 8:00 pm
Live and livestreamed from the Strand Theater
543 Columbia Road, Boston, MA 02125
ADB is thrilled to present our 2023 annual ballet The Banned Ballet. This event is family friendly and inspired by the sweeping book bans across the country eliminating diverse identities from schools, public libraries, and more. With original story, choreography, and music by artistic leadership Ellice Patterson and Andrew Choe this is not one to be missed! This will be a hybrid event.
Hip Hips Hooray
Oct 3, 2023 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Contact Improvisation Boston
8 Inman St, Cambridge, MA 02139
CIB Mini Class and Jam:
Bringing awareness to the joints and muscles of the pelvis, we will connect to the movement possibilities of our hips to find stability and fluidity in our relationships with gravity.
7:30 - 8:30 Mini Class 8:30 - 10:00pm Jam.
$10 (sliding scale available, no one will be turned away )