Spring Fall Dance Studio

Spring Fall Dance Studio Spring Fall Dance Studio in West Berkeley is a community space for rent with a beautiful sprung wood

Footloose operates Spring Fall Studio year-round for performing artists to rehearse, teach and showcase their work. The space hosts a variety of classes and events by a range of teachers and artists. Footloose also produces full-length theatrical productions and one person shows each season. Artistic Director, Mary Alice Fry, is constantly on the move to meet and invite fresh talent to participate

in outdoor performance installations, ongoing performance series and reading series for poets, playwrights, and singer/songwriters. The popular series Bitch and Tell: a real funny variety show showcases professional, international talent, including stand up comedians, musicians, circus acts, dancers and magicians. See/Sound/Move is an interactive performance jam for creative play fueled by open source digital media where the audience is invited to participate, plus the weekly contact improvisation jam in Berkeley. AIM: Artists in Motion residency program fosters artistic expression in emerging and established female artists from diverse ethnicities and backgrounds who take advantage of the freedom to make new work while being supported in all aspects of production and being paid! Mentoring is offered in how to build professional careers with practical business skills to locate funding sources, book venues, make contracts, improve photography and video documentation; publicize their story and garner critical acclaim. This network with other individuals in the arts brings new voices to the fore; gives them some momentum to overcome their feelings of isolation; and helps them find collaborators, directors, partners and more. Soloists often find their footing in a particular genre but sometimes decide not to go it alone and become part of a duo or group after participating in one of our programs. People find each other and connect through our performances, workshops, auditions or other events. Choreographers especially have gained from this to form their own companies. Some decide to self produce and many of our success stories are women who are now touring and making their living as an artist.

05/04/2026

Contact improv history, practice, resources, documentation, community.

New Contact Improv class starts this Friday May 8 for four weeks with Ava Maag: Contact Improvisation from the Ground Up...
05/04/2026

New Contact Improv class starts this Friday May 8 for four weeks with Ava Maag:
Contact Improvisation from the Ground Up
Spring Fall Studio | 2547 Eighth St. Berkeley
Fridays | May 8, 15, 29, June 5 | 6:30-8pm (no class 5/22)
$100* for full course

Contact Improvisation from the Ground Up is a four-week dive into the foundations of this delightfully awkward relational dance form. We’ll build a shared vocabulary to roll, fall, and play together. We’ll practice simple forms to help us move with shared structures. Tuning into sensation to guide our choices, we’ll relax into action, finding dances that emerge from ease, curiosity, and listening. This series could be a gentle launch into jamming, a playground for somatic investigation, a deeper dive into the heart of CI as a dance form–whatever it is, we’ll discover it together.

Want to know more about Contact Improvisation? This is a good place to start: https://contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/

About the instructor: Ava Maag (they/she) was first introduced to Contact Improvisation in theatre school in 2013. After a few years off and a move to the Bay, casual jamming progressed to rigorous study and then to performing and teaching. Ava has had the gift of studying with many excellent teachers, taking particular influence from Nita Little, Shira Yaziv, Miriam Wolodarski, Sebastian Grubb, Scott Wells, and Sara Shelton Mann. Several other practices play into her particular flavor of CI, notably Modern dance, Musical Theatre, Clown, and Deep Listening.

Questions? Email [email protected]

*If this price doesn't work for you, put a note below and we'll work something else out.

Contact improv history, practice, resources, documentation, community.

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2547 8th Street/Studio #20
Berkeley, CA
94710

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