UPCOMING Clases
Photo by: Sören Wacker of Megan Lowe and Pau Pau
Shifting into Lifting: Contact Improvisation in Tokyo, Japan
for the CI Tokyo Japan Community
March 18th, 2023
Saturday, 6pm-10pm
Nakanoku Higashinakano Kumin Katsudo Center
5 Chome-27-5 Higashinakano, Nakano City, Tokyo 164-0003, Japan
An exciting workshop focused on sharing and developing contact improvisation skills that will allow us to fly together. We will explore a variety of intriguing improvisational scores that focus on giving and getting support when moving with others. Then we will dive into some of Megan’s favorite ways of discovering lifts while improvising, finding seamless ways of flowing into and out of them, followed by connecting these ideas into dynamic contact improvisation scores. Sensing, shifting, supporting, seeing, and being seen.
2010 - present
Dynamic Places and Partners
as part of Finnish Hall's Easter Jam 2023
April 8th, 2023
Saturday, 4pm-6pm
1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
We will start with the floor as our first partner, moving on to investigate the unique structural elements of the space. Opening the dance up to contact with another human, we’ll explore ways of sharing weight and learn some fun partnering lifts. Then the dance will become a creative trio: you, another dancer, and the architecture—sensing, shifting, supporting, seeing, and being seen.
Photo by: Sören Wacker of Megan Lowe and Pau Pau
TEACHING highlights
UC Berkeley - Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Guest Teacher of Contact Improvisation, Partnering, Sources of Movement & Release Technique
2012 - Present
Joe Goode Performance Group
Teaching and Choreographing Artist
2012 - Present
Bandaloop
Teaching Artist in Vertical Dance
2016 - Present
Flyaway Productions
GIRLFLY Choreographing Artist
2017 - Present
Finnish Hall Weekend Contact Improvisation Jam
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2017 - Present
Dynamic Partnering
Weekend Workshops Co-Taught with Shira Yaziv
2019 - Present
InterKinected
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2019 - Present
Thursday Jam
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2021 - Present
LA Contact Improvisation
Weekend Workshop Co-Taught with Shira Yaziv
2022
Kristin Damrow and Company
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2022
The Center SF
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2022
Bodies of Empowerment
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2022
Tangram: Physical Puzzles
Workshops Co-Taught with Brenton Cheng
2021
El Cerrito High School
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2016 - 2021
Lowell High School
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2017 - 2021
Bentley School
Master Teacher in Floor Work & Inversions
2020
NCDC
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2019
ODC
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2019
Dance Training Center
Master Teacher in Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2019
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
Master Teacher in Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2015 & 2018
West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam
Intensive Teacher in Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2017
KULARTS
Master Teacher of Contact Improvisation & Partnering
2014
Galileo
Team Leader and Assistant Instructor
2011
Megan and Shira Yaziv taught a CI workshop in LA. Photo by: Eric Allen
Megan and Shira Yaziv taught a CI workshop in LA. Photo by: Eric Allen
Megan and Shira Yaziv taught a CI workshop in LA. Photo by: Eric Allen
Megan taught a contact improvisation masterclass at NCDC 2019. Photo by: Nile Sprague
Megan taught a week long contact improvisation intensive at wcciJAM 2017 with Rosemary Hannon, Vitali Kononov, and Rajendra Serber. Pictured with: Vitali Kononov Photo by: Rob Kunkle
Megan has been teaching in Joe Goode Performance Groups' Inspired Bodies program since 2012. Photo by: Jessica Kronenberg
Megan choreographed a dance on youth artists and guided them in creating their own dances with Flyaway. Photo by: Brechin Flournoy
2010 - present