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Connection Jam

In Partnership With ArtPower | EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30-8PM 

 

A weekly community offering that began Spring 2024. T+ D professor Ana Maria Alvarez and a roster of amazing artists from on and off campus lead a weekly gathering space for connection, radical joy and community! In connection jam participants are led through a collective practice of our ancestral technologies movement and play. No experience necessary, this is an open and non judgemental space. Come ready to move, sweat, laugh and practice joy as if it were a muscle. You will leave feeling more grounded, connected and joyful! 

 

Winter 2026 

8 sessions - At The Loft, Epstein Family Amphitheater (EFA) on 2/18, Wagner Dance Building on 2/25 

Week 2: Jan 14 - The Loft - Bernard Brown - Dunham Get Down 

Week 3: Jan 21 - The LoftJuan Carlos Blanco - Afro-Cuban Dance

Week 4: Jan 28 - The Loft -Ana María Álvarez - Rueda de Casino

Week 5: Feb 4 - The Loft - Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor - Bomba

Week 6: Feb 11 - The LoftDaunté Fyall - Stepping 

Week 7: Feb 18 - EFA - All Department Dance Sharing (4pm -6:30pm) followed by Connection Jam with dr. grace shinhae jun and Joseph "Dyno" Corrales

Week 8: Feb 25 - Wagner Dance Building - Melissa Tannus - Tap

Week 9: March 4 - The Loft - Kara Mack - Africa in America

Week 10: March 11th - Winter Works - No connection jam 



Spring 2026

7 sessions - At The Loft, Epstein Family Amphitheater (EFA), and Wagner Dance Building

Week 2: April 8 - The Loft - Led by SYCAPATED LADIES (guests at EFA/ArtPower) - Tap

Week 3: April 15 - EFA - Led by Versa-Style Street Dance Company (guests at EFA / Art Power) - House

Week 4: April 22 - Wagner Dance BuildingJuan Carlos Blanco - Cuban Rumba 

Week 5: April 29 - Wagner Dance Building Kara Mack - West African 

Week 6: May 6 - The Loft Bernard Brown - Dunham Get Down

Week 7: May 13 - EFA - All Department Dance Sharing (4pm -6:30pm) followed by Connection Jam with dr. grace shinhae jun and Joseph "Dyno" Corrales

Week 8: May 20 - EFAAna María Álvarez - Movement for the movement 

Week 9: May 29 - New Directions tech rehearsal - No connection jam 

Week 10: June 5 - New Directions performance - No connection jam 

 

Check on IG @connection_jam for updated schedule/details/location

Co-sponsored by Black Studies Project and Art Power

Free - All Welcome