Contact Improv Nova Scotia

12/23/2025

New Classes starting Jan 12, 2026. Bi Monthly on Monday evening 7:30-9:30pm. Drop-in

08/14/2025

Monthly Contact Improvisation class and Jam starting August 25! Warm-up and a guided class structure to hone our skills with open jam time included.
Location: All Nations Church
2535 Robie Street
Monday Nights / once-a-month
Time: 7:30-9:30
Dates: Aug 25, Sept 29, Oct 27, Nov 25, Dec 15
Exploring CI as a question we will explore the principles and practice of contact improvisation through physical skill work, perceptual tuning, body puzzles and practice time for focused dancing. We will tune our bodies to the physical forces and with each other, finding release and new discoveries in the point of contact, falling, following, leading, changing level, and flying. Unlock your potential and adaptability within the unknown, and discover the dance that is already there.


Dance Nova Scotia Mocean Dance

10/08/2024

Coming up with Sara Coffinand Sally Morgan/Eastward!

Contact Dance + Improvisation

A half hour guided warm-up and then 45 mins of facilitated jam/dance time. In our warm-ups we will move towards opening and sharpening the senses, deepening our awareness of our own bodies and those we dance with. Using the foundation of contact improvisation we will explore falling, rolling, giving and taking weight, leading, following, trusting, softening, toning, and listening. Warmups will be led by Sally Morgan and Sara Coffin.

What is Contact Improv?

Contact Improvisation is a movement form, improvisational by nature. Greatly influenced by founder Steve Paxton's training in Martial Arts, dance, and movement, it is an ever evolving system based on the communication between moving bodies and the relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion. A free play with balance, trust, surrender, sensation, abandon, support and instinct, the skills and simple exercises learned in a contact class often lead towards experimenting in free duet dancing. It is an exciting way for people to come together, interact on a physical level, learn how to speak through the body and find their own dance. (If you are wanting more of a warm-up, please join in Explore. Embody. Move. class directly before.)

MONDAYS

7:15-8:30pm (1x per month)

October 21, November 18, December 16*

DROP IN $15 (links below)

*December 16 will be an extended Jam until 9pm

LOCATION: ALL NATIONS CHURCH, 2535 ROBIE STREET, HALIFAX

03/03/2024

Steve Paxton, the co-founder of contact improvisation, passed away last Tuesday at age 85. He was an inspiring, creative man. You can see the quality of his embodied gentle presence in videos. He was a central part of the Post Modern Dance movement in NY and had many other projects throughout the years. This is the article that appeared in NY times article

Steve Paxton, who helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in

02/06/2023

POP-UP FRIDAY MORNING CONTACT CLASSES with Sara Coffin and Mocean Dance. Location: Halifax Dance Studio, 1505 Barrington Street. 10:00-11:30, Friday Morning on the following dates: Feb 3, Mar 3, 10, April 14, 28. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

01/01/2023

Pop-Up Contact Classes in Halifax! Three Friday Mornings in January with Mocean Dance & Sara Coffin. JANUARY 6, 13, 20 10-11:30 at Halifax Dance, (1505 Barrington Street).
Photo Courtesy of Mocean Dance and Suddenly Listen, Dancers: Sara Coffin, Julia Carr. Photo Credit: Kevin MacCormack