BOOGIES, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:

Berkeley: Dance Jam 8:30 - Midnight Fridays: Features the two following venue descriptions: Hot Room: starts at 9:30 with a slow warm up and gathers steam for more energetic -upbeat Deejayed music. Warm Room: starts at 9:30 and alternates weekly between a live band and Deejayed Ambient Groove music. Western Sky Dance Studio, Eighth Street Studios, 2525 Eighth St.(cross street Dwight), Berkeley. $8before 9 p.m., $9 after, http://www.dancejam.org/

Family Jam – a before-bedtime freestyle dance for kids of all ages and the people who love them. We provide an open space with trampolines, hula hoops, and other toys, play kid-friendly adult music from around the world, and dance and play together in an unstructured setting.
Family Jams generally take place twice a month, the second and fourth Fridays of each month from 6 to 7:45 pm, at 8th Street Studio, 2525 8th Street at Dwight, Berkeley. $5 for adults, kids are free! http://www.dancingvillage.com/family_jams.php

Palo Alto: Radical Suburban Boogie Fridays 8-11 pm; $10/first timers $5/children free. The Center, 435 Middlefield Rd (just north of University Ave.) Palo Alto 94301
http://www.southbaydance.com/

Santa Cruz: Free Jam Mondays 9:30-1:00 Dance Gallery, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 USA Santa Cruz,CA Contact: Atreya 831-427-1595

Petaluma: Twist and Shout is held the second and fourth Fridays of the month. 8:00-10:00PM. Cost is $10.00 for one time, or people can buy frequent dancer cards 5/$40.00. First-timer special is $5.00. No kids, although teens are fine. It's held at Bodyworks Yoga Studio, 490 Second St., Petaluma, CA. 94952. Phone 707.695.9268. Calendar: http://www.bodyworksyoga.com/classschedules/ Email valrichman@pacbell.net

BOOGIES, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:

Santa Barbara: Dance Away Santa Barbara - Smoke, alcohol & drug free dance
open to all ages. http://www.danceawaysb.com

Dance Jam Ventura - Freestyle barefoot dancing in Ventura California Santa
Barbara Oxnard Camarillo: http://www.waywebby.com/dancejam/ Email: dancejamventura@yahoo.com


BOOGIES, COUNTRYWIDE:

Dance New England (DNE) This is a listing of Barefoot Boogies throughout the nation.
http://www.dne.org/dancedirectory/

CONTACT JAMS, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:

Berkeley Jam: Every Saturday 3:30-6:00 pm
8th Street Studio (2525 8th St), near Dwight. Cost: $5. (510)601-9461
Pre-Jam Class (All levels) led by various teachers;1:30pm-3:30pm; in
Spring/Fall Studio around the corner. Cost: $15-12 sliding scale.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFBACI or email: ciworkshop@yahoo.com

Contact Improv Group List: Join this group to get email of CI events in Bay Area. Also has local listings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SFBACI

San Francisco Jam CounterPULSE: Tuesday nights, Class 6:30-8pm, Jam8-11pm, Class $12 or $15 and stay for Jam, Jam $5.848 moved in 2004 and has become CounterPULSE.1310 Mission Street at 9th St (1 block from Civic Ctr BART) http://www.counterpulse.org

Sebastopol Jam: Monthly workshops and jam Every Wednesday 6:30 to 7:30 pm warm up class with a variety of local and bay area teachers 7:30 to 9:30 pm open jam time, contact meryl 707.823.7559
Sebastopol Center for the Arts 6780 Depot Street Sebastopol 95472 http://www.fallingupdance.com/

Santa Cruz CI Jam: Tues 8:00-11:00 pm 418 Front Street. contact Daniel 831-427-0564

West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival: Every Year in Berkeley http://www.wccif.com/

Contact Quarterly: Contact Improvisation Magazine http://www.contactquarterly.com/index.html

DANCE CAMPS:

NCDC (Northern California Dance Collective): Dance Camp & Other Events
http://www.ncdcdances.org/

Dance New England (DNE): & many other links :
http://www.dne.org/dancedirectory/#org

ALTERNATIVE DANCE & MOVEMENT LOCAL:

Contact Improvisation with Brenton Chang: http://www.bfalling.net/page.php?pagename=FrontPage

Body Tales Retreats and workshops: http://www.bodytales.com/

Body Mind Centering (BMC): http://www.bodymindcentering.com/


Dance Alive: http://www.dancealive.com/

Moving on Center: http://www.movingoncenter.org/

Sebastopol Contact Improv workshops and other dance:
http://fallingupdance.com/

Ernie Adams: Contact Improv. and Feldenkrais movement:
Phone 510/433-9591,
email: adams@bodyinaction.com
web: http://www.bodyinaction.com/

5 Rythms™: Sausalito Sweat Your Prayers:
Gabrial Roth 5 rhythms http://movingcenterschool.com/page.php3?id=44

5 Rythms™: Ecstatic dance for body and soul . . . the healing movement work of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms™. Classes, workshops and special events in the South Bay and San Francisco Bay Areas. Web: http://www.ecstaticproductions.com/index.html

Annie Brook: Contact Improvisation dancer and therapist, and author of Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering. www.anniebrook.com

Eerthdance: Home for the improvisational dance community. Lovely dance retreat center in the Berkshire hills: http://earthdance.net/

Biodanza: Biodanza affords a transformational experience leading to healthier relationships and an improved ability to feel pleasure in life. Schedule of classes and events in San Francisco and the Unites States, contact Belisa Amaro at (415) 806-8067, www.biodanzasf.com Email info@biodanzasf.com


ALTERNATIVE DANCE & MOVEMENT NATIONAL:

Gypsie Nation: Hawai’i Dance comunity. Gypsie Nation is a grass roots organization committed to creating dynamic dance rituals for the healing of the individual, the community and the Earth. http://www.gypsienation.com/AG.html

Seatle Alternative dance and annual festival: http://www.danceartgroup.org/

CONTACT IMPROVISATION WEBSITES:

Contact Quarterly:
The magazine for Contact improvisation http://www.contactquarterly.com/index.html

Very comprehensive CI site. Check here for festivals, classes, and teachers worldwide : http://www.contactimprov.net/

Earthdance: Dance center in Massachusetts: http://earthdance.phpwebhosting.com/

United Kingdom CI site: large resource site for Europe http://www.contactimprovisation.co.uk/


AMBIENT GROOVE MUSIC WEB SITES:

Shoutcast: Direct streaming audio, hundreds of stations at the push of a button. This link to "down tempo" music at their site: http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?sgenre=Downtempo


Dub Beautiful Collective. Music link site for downbeat ambient music in Bay Area. Streaming audio links, best for high speed connections:
http://www.dub-beautiful.org/


BAY AREA CULTURAL RESOURCES:

San Francisco Arts, Bay area events calender and resource: www.sfarts.org
Venue 9, Theater, Music, Performance Art: http://www.venue9.com/main.html