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2025 Chicago Global Underscore 

Global Underscore 2025!

facilitated by Kellyn Jackson, Kate Ziebart, and Chrissy Martin

Saturday June 21, 2025 at Mind Body Connections (register for address and door code)

9:00a-1:00p Underscore Practice (please allow yourself time to find location and settle in before 9am) 

1:00p-2:00p Watermelon/Potluck 

Suggested Donation $15-35 (no one turned away for lack of funds)* 

All experience levels welcome!

Guidelines, Accessibility Info, and Facilitator Bios

If you have never attended a talk-through and/or are unfamiliar with the Underscore, please attend an Underscore talk-through prior to event.

Kate Ziebart will be providing a talk-through on Tuesday June 17th 8-9:00pm on Google Meets. RSVP for the talk-through below.

https://meet.google.com/aef-wnwi-nbe

*We will be donating all funds we collect to the Gaza Water Distribution Effort, a locally organized effort in Gaza to distribute clean water to children and families in the hardest hit areas of Israeli occupation and violence.

What is the Underscore?

"The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space—alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising. It allows for a full spectrum of energetic and physical expressions, embodying a range of forms and changing states. Its practice is familiar yet unpredictable." - Nancy Stark Smith

What is the GLOBAL Underscore?

The Global Underscore (GUS) is a yearly event where the Underscore is practiced simultaneously at various times across the globe for a 4hr period. There are many ways to participate in GUS. Check out the website to see where else people will be practicing and virtual options for participation.

What is a talk-through?

Since the underscore practice itself is not verbally guided, the idea is that you show up to the practice already "knowing" the Underscore. A talk-through is where you can learn what it is/how to practice it! Bring your notebook, as you will be instructed to draw the "glyphs" of the various aspects and take notes on what they mean. 

Contact kate.ziebart@gmail.com with questions

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