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Be Body mornings

Friday morning dance class 10-12. 6 classes $100 Drop in $20 Dates: Oct 11, 18 Nov 1, 8, 15, 22 Aikido Peace Education Center Registration Who doesn't want to start the day with a good dance class!? A movement class where you won't imitate a teacher

Single Moment 2024

Contact Improvisation

Single Moment 2024

Contact Improvisation Immersion with Carmen Serber and guests in Berkeley, CA. Somatics into Contact Improvisation Application and registration form and prices. This year long training provides a modular education into Contact Improvisation moving between sensing, practice, theory and somatic integration. We experience the body as a vessel of experimental inquiry,

The Art of Waiting

Contact Improvisation

The Art of Waiting

Saturday December 14th 10am - 4:30pm in Sebastopol, CA The workshop is open to all bodies, all identities. Some familiarity with Contact Improvisation can be helpful but is not necessary. We are making efforts to create a more diverse space for practicing and encourage queer and racially diverse identities

Faking It With Gravity

Contact Improvisation

Faking It With Gravity

A workshop with Nica Portavia and Karen Nelson January 11 and 12 10 am - 4:30pm Open Saturday JAM with live music by Evan Strauss ~ 7-10pm Workshop and evening Jam Sliding scale: $170 -$270 Sliding scale: QTBIPOC $110 to $190 Jam only: $10-20 (paid at door) Registration The

Contact Improvisation

Fall Jam 2024

Registration Update: This event is FULL. Please still register on our waitlist, we'll reach out if a space opens up. The Fall Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Selena La Brooy and music by Serge

Workshop with Nita Little

Contact Improvisation

Workshop with Nita Little

I am grateful for Nita to come again this October to teach a two day workshop in Bellingham! Space is limited to 30 people. October 5th and 6th 10am - 5pm Open Saturday JAM with live music by Eric Mulhern and Elijah Lee (Sway!) ~ 7-10pm Workshop and evening Jam $170

Fall Offerings

I dedicated this summer to stay put and explore Bellingham, its bodies of water, the mountains, forests and the downtown pump track! Every time I felt tempted to sign up for a workshop or a CI gathering, I didn’t. I intended to not get caught in the whirlwind of

Finding Earth - The Point of Contact

Contact Improvisation

Finding Earth - The Point of Contact

Saturday, June 8th ~ 10am - 5pm Open JAM ~ 7-10pm Musicians: Eric Mulhern and Elijah Lee (Sway!) At the Peace, Education and Somatic School (previously called the Aikido Peace Education Center) in the Masonic Hall, downtown Bellingham, WA. Workshop and evening Jam Early bird until May 12th: $80 After May 12th:

Reverberations

Rajendra and I just completed another community Jam with a farewell dinner in our home. I can still feel the reverberations of the weekend, the distinct happiness after an immersion into a long dance weekend. Certainly a tiredness that needs much rest but the cup feels full and not empty.

Spring Jam 2024

Contact Improvisation

Spring Jam 2024

Update 4/2: The Spring Jam is full. You can add yourself to the Waitlist. The Spring Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Anne Cooper and music by Serge Gubelman, Yam Sweets and Ira Echo. We are

Solo emerging

This picture is not a particularly good screen shot from a video I took of a little improv wiggle during the times of lockdown but it captures a moment of truth. I often went to Spring Fall, a little dance studio in Berkeley. I danced, stared at walls, smelled the

Winter Jam 2024

Contact Improvisation

Winter Jam 2024

This jam and workshop are FULL. We are at capacity so we can't take any drop-ins, including the evening jams. The Winter Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Karen Nelson and music by Serge Gubelman,

Dance Education

Be BODY 2023

Mondays 5:00-7:00pm November 6 - January 22 (no class Dec 25 and Jan 1) Early bird registration til October 10: $200 After October 10th: $250 Peace Education and Somatic School, Bellingham Register by filling out the contact form and send payment via Venmo to @Carmen-Serber with the note

The Single Moment

Contact Improvisation

The Single Moment

One year immersion into Contact Improvisation

Contact Improvisation

Fall Jam 2023

The Fall Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Nita Little and music by Serge Gubelman, YamSweets and Shamsi Bluesky. We are lucky to have Michal Lahav and Jessi Rado as additional facilitators. Join us to practice Contact

The Unbound Body

Somatic Movement

The Unbound Body

August 19th, 2023 10-5pm Peace, Education and Somatic School 1101 N State Street, Bellingham $100 (Please inquire for a reduced rate) Registration: Please send an email to: hello@carmenserber.com This daylong workshop's intention is an investigation of improvisation grounded in practicing attention. We build upon our self-expressive

Contact Improvisation

Potent Pelvis

Monday, May 29th from 10:30am - 5:30pm at The Joe Goode Annex in San Francisco SIGNUP HERE Please fill out this form to sign up: https://forms.gle/o2H7wnCxkdaeM2477 Potent Pelvis in Contact Improvisation. This one day workshop focuses on our pelvis –the beautiful basin-shaped complex of bones

Contact Improvisation

May Jam

The May Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend hosted by Carmen and Rajendra Serber, featuring a special workshop with Scott Wells and music by Serge Gubelman and YamSweets. Join us to practice Contact Improvisation with the inspiration of classes, labs, music, contemplation*, and of course jamming. Come behold

Contact Improvisation

Spring Jam

The Spring Jam in Bellingham is a Contact Improvisation weekend. It will include a class, music, contemplation, and of course Contact Improvisation. Join us to practice and discover Contact Improvisation.

Moving into 2023

Moving into 2023

Below are my offerings in Bellingham and Berkeley/SF for the next couple of months. But first my inspiration for 2023: In my last movement practice I journaled that I want to explore my life as a beast. I want to embrace it – my own non-human self, my mammalian nature

morning moving scores

Somatic Movement

morning moving scores

...Attention is the beginning of devotion. from Mary Oliver’s poem “upstream” January Mon 1/30 - Thu 2/2 10am - 12:00pm Spring Fall studio, Berkeley, CA Suggested Donation $20-30 per session Drop in is fine This series' intention is an investigation of improvisation. This format practices

Contact Improvisation

Winter Jam

Winter Jam in Bellingham, Contact Improvisation January 13 – 15.

Carmen and Rajendra falling in a jam with their little friend

Contact Improvisation

Fall Jam

The Fall Jam in Bellingham Contact Improvisation October 22 and 23 at the Aikido Peace Education Center

Felt Sense Expansion

with Carmen Serber, Mihyun Lee and Marcus van Duren Friday May 6 – Sunday May 8 Contact Improvisation. What a multilayered dance! It offers so much and challenges each and every dancer on levels we probably haven’t even known existed. It ranges from stillness and awareness practices to highly athletic

Exploratory Movement Practice

Exploratory Movement Practice

This class fosters personal growth by building upon our self-expressive capabilities in an interplay of inner and outer worlds.