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A weekly community offering that began Spring 2024. UC San Diego Theatre & Dance 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!

Fall 2026 Schedule

Oct. 7 – Ana Maria (movement for the movement) – Wagner
Oct. 14 – Daunté Fyall (dance of the continent: Africa at the Root) – Wagner
Oct. 21 – Vrisika Chauhan (Bollywood Groove) – Loft
Oct. 28 – Bernard Brown (Dunham Get Down) – Wagner
Nov. 4 – Juan Carlos Blanco (Move with the Orishas) – Wagner
Nov. 18 – dr. grace & Dyno (dance sharing / hip hop is the heart ) – EFA
Dec. 2 – Melissa Tannus (rhythm at the root) – Wagner