This movement class is an opportunity to experience the exhilarating practice of dance improvisation. Through exploring deep kinesthetic states of heightened awareness, students will develop individual improvisational skills, the ability to collaborate and improvise with others and consider tools for performing improvisation. We will embrace improvisation as a complex art form that we can experience through various mediums but ultimately is expressed through the body. Materials we will use for improvising will draw from the poetic imagery of Skinner Releasing Technique, the music scores of composers Pauline Oliveros and John Cage, and the somatic-based touch of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen´s Body-Mind Centering. Students will also research and develop improvisational scores inspired by visual artists such as Agnes Martin and Hilma af Klint. The class will include spontaneous writing based on Open Source Forms. We will explore the potential for improvisation to function as a community-building practice within and outside the studio. The class will focus on the moment-to-moment decisions improvisation allows and how kinesthetic choice-making is expressed in dance and outside the studio. No prior dance training is necessary. This class is open to all students interested in exploring their physical imagination.