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Angela Jean Kaylor (she/her)

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Aerial/Vertical + Experimental Dancer
ISMETA RSME • LMT

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Women’s Only CI Class + Jam 🌀
Wednesday 9.30.26
Class @ 7:30-8:30pm • Jam @ 8:45pm

This month we’ll have a CI fundamentals class offered by @katherine__lain and we’ll have @hexpartner weaving a live soundscape into our jam 🔥

𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘
7:30~7:45 • Arrival
7:45~8:45 • Class w/ Katherine
8:45~9:00 • Opening circle/orientation
9:00~10:15 • Jam + Live music
10:15~10:30 • Closing circle/departure

𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟
East Side Performing Arts Center
979 Springdale Rd Ste 815, Austin, TX 78702

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤
We’ll practice meeting the earth through another’s body and playing with different ways to connect as we move through the space together. Can we be in connection through touch without losing contact with the whole room?

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣
@katherine__lain lives wide between Austin and Greece, dancing to flirt with the unknown and trust what emerges from the collective. She has studied contact improvisation with devotion for five years, and learns just as much from sitting quietly in wild places.

𝔸𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕟
@hexpartner is a synthesist, strings player, and VJ who lives in Austin, TX and focuses on spatial audiovisual performance.

Bring kneepads, a refillable water bottle and wear comfortable clothes to move in. Pants recommended and bringing layers that offer coverage is helpful.

$20-$35 sliding scale
ℕ𝕆𝕋𝔸𝔽𝕃𝕆𝔽

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮.

The jam was created for women within the CI and other dance communities in and around ATX. Open to all women wanting a focused space to jam, lab and create together. All levels of experience welcome, beginners strongly encouraged to attend the full event.
Inclusive space for non-binary and LGBTQ+ women.

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩/𝘿𝙈 @𝙜𝙞𝙜𝙞__𝙠 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 🤍

(Photograph in slide 2 taken by Arthur Moss) by @gigi__k

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Honored to perform with these dancers, what a life 🤍 by @gigi__k

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🌀 Join me on Wed July 29th for the first CI Jam reserved exclusively for the women of the dance community. This is the first of what I hope to be a monthly event 🌀

I’m 𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 to be joined by 2 lovely & talented women whose offerings will elevate the evening ✨
@mira_cook_music will be weaving a live improvised soundscape into our dancing, and @ojohare will facilitate a rich movement experience that’ll unfold seamlessly into our jam.

𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘
7:30~7:45 • space opens/arrival
7:45~8:00 • opening circle/orientation
8:00~8:30 • movement experience w/ @ojohare
8:30~9:45 • jam + live score @mira_cook_music
9:45~10:00 • closing circle/departure

Reminder to bring kneepads, a refillable water bottle and to wear comfortable clothes to move in. Pants recommended and bringing layers that offer coverage is helpful.

𝕃𝕠𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟
East Side Performing Arts Center
979 Springdale Rd Ste 815, Austin, TX 78702

$20-$35 sliding scale
ℕ𝕆𝕋𝔸𝔽𝕃𝕆𝔽

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮.

The container is created specifically for women within the CI and other dance communities in and around ATX. Open to all women wanting a focused space to jam, lab and create together. All levels of experience welcome.
Inclusive space for non-binary and LGBTQ+ women.

Looking forward to gathering and dancing together 🤍

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙩/𝘿𝙈 @𝙜𝙞𝙜𝙞__𝙠 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩
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. : NEW DATE - NOV 1ST : .

A L T A R O F T H E B O D Y 🌀

A special contemplative dance experience with ✨ LIVE MUSIC ✨

I’m thrilled to have @thank_god_its_terri joining us and weaving ethereal soundscapes into the space and our dancing 🤍

In this unique offering we will explore moving with and being moved by the energy of sound. We’ll anchor into our breath, presence and spatial awareness through solo and ensemble movement, and create a collective sound painting through an improvised toning score. From there we’ll enter into a Contemplative Dance Practice, ending with a long group score intertwined with live music.

This workshop is open to previous participants of CDP, and those who have experience with contemplative/somatic movement, dance improvisation or meditation practices. If you don’t have experience but are interested, please reach out!

$30-$40 sliding scale
11am - 2pm @ Blue Lapis Light studio

🔹Link in bio to register🔹
*Limited Spaces: Pre-registration Only*

If finances are a barrier, please contact me 🤍
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🌱Contemplative Dance Practice 🍂
aka Dancer’s Meditation Hall, was created by dance educator and performance artist Barbara Dilley at Naropa University in the 1970s. CDP combines meditation and dance improvisation through a sequential progression of seated meditation, personal awareness practice and group movement. The container for this practice is woven collectively and actively held through compassionate witnessing of the group, by the group. CDP is a dynamic exploration of self awareness, fostering authentic expression and a deeper relationship with our internal and external world. by @gigi__k

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Breathing life into layers of desert memories, studio time with my dance kin. Revitalized, inspired & still processing our time steeped in dancing/performing and the wild landscapes of West Texas.
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Tomorrow 8/21 Class + Jam @ ESPA !

doors 6:30
class 7pm
jam 8:15-9:45

class instruction by Angela Kaylor @gigi__k and Sam Mandlebaum

Instead of the hyper-focus hypnotism of the duet form of CI, this week we will bring our attention to the creativity of the collective body in the jam space. This still allows for “grazing”, where many brief duet moments come and go while attention remains open to the whole ensemble. With this added influence of so many more Bodyminds in your awareness, improvisation tends towards the symphonic, supportive, and altogether unpredictable sum of the parts. Bringing methods from Lower Left and Angie Hauser, Sam and Angela will co-facilitate this one-hour beginner-friendly intro to ensemble improvisation.

Angela has been dancing and performing in Austin for 15 years, with a focus on contemporary aerial, post modern and site specific work. She’s performed with site specific aerial dance company Blue Lapis Light and has been featured in various performance projects with several local choreographers. Over the past 4 years her movement research has been primarily focused on experimental dance forms of improvisation, CI and ensemble work. She’s been deeply influenced by working with Deborah Hay and Nina Martin/Lower Left Collective, as well as her training in Alito Alessi’s DanceAbility material. In 2023, she completed a 550 hour ISMETA Somatic Movement Education certification from ACC, and has been a practicing LMT for 10 years. taken in East Side Performing Arts - ESPA by @gigi__k

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* * * SOLD OUT - WAITLIST ONLY * * *

A L T A R O F T H E B O D Y 🐚
Join me for a special CDP focused workshop✨

This offering will start with guided movement, setting intentional space to embody presence and awareness, attune to sensations and build group alchemy. From there we’ll move into a Contemplative Dance Practice, ending with a long group score.

July’s movement session will explore breath to engage cellular embodiment and dynamic alignment, creating an internal anchor and source for movement initiation. Subtle contact scores will be layered in, gently oscillating between physical touch and witnessing to cultivate a grounded relationship with our sensations and environment.

🌱Contemplative Dance Practice 🍂
also called Dancer’s Meditation Hall, was created by dance educator and performance artist Barbara Dilly at Naropa University in the 1970s. CDP combines meditation and dance improvisation through a sequential progression of seated meditation, personal awareness practice and group movement. The container for this practice is woven collectively and actively held through compassionate witnessing of the group, by the group. CDP is a dynamic exploration of self awareness, fostering authentic expression and a deeper relationship with our internal and external world.

While it is beneficial to have experience with contemplative movement, dance improvisation or CI, it is not required to join 🤍

🔹 $35-$25 sliding scale 🔹

* * Limited to 12 participants * *
🔹Link in bio to register🔹

xo taken in Travis Heights by @gigi__k

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“What is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit”
-Kahlil Gibran

Early morning rehearsals on site
@bluelapislight

#harnessdance #aerialdance #dancer #grateful #hardworkpaysoffs #dancinginthesky #verticaldance taken in Austin, Texas by @gigi__k

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📸 @karmarocca thanks for capturing 🖤

#aerialsilks #nopainnogain #dancer taken in Blue Lapis Light by @gigi__k

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#aerialsilks #lines #dancer taken in Blue Lapis Light by @gigi__k

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#silks #aerialdance
📸 @kari.burke taken in Blue Lapis Light by @gigi__k

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