Crosspollination (2007)

Crosspollination brought together two forms, BodyMind Centering(tm) and Contact Improvisation (CI), for focused research and practice. Crosspollination was a conference, performance, public discussion, workshop and archive project co-founded by Christine Cole and Margit Galanter.  It gathered Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, founder of BMC and Nancy Stark Smith, one of the original progenitors of the form CI, along with prominent teachers in these fields, including Cathie Caraker and Christine Cole. Participants gathered internationally for this unique event at Earthdance.

Grove Index
The Vivid Grove is... a living site for moving, learning, creative evolution, and collective liberatory practices assembled by margit galanter. The vivid grove offers a vision of vitality and exuberance – for individuals and for the collective body.
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📞 Phone Messages: (510) 761-6097

✉️ margit [at] vividgrove.org

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margit practices in the East Bay and in San Francisco, and offers workshops, sessions, and residencies inter/nationally.

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East Bay:

Kokoro Clinic, 339 15th street Oakland, CA

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In public parks throughout the Bay Area

Bespoke locations & Online

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#HonorNativeLand / LANDBACK

The vivid grove respectfully acknowledges living, practicing, and working on the unceded, sacred, and stolen ancestral land of the Chochenyo Ohlone people, who have stewarded this land throughout the generations, land that is colonially known as California—East Bay. To acknowledge the native and indigenous lands is also inextricably to speak about the people, creatures, plants and life-ways that exist altogether in relation. This culture is in no way only rooted in the past, rather is a rich and vibrant part of present and future. Members of these indigenous lands are alive and shaping the communities of this place today. May the land be returned for rematriation and indigenous stewarding for generations to come. It is the commitment of the grove to share time well and in right relation, insofar as this is possible, in reverence and prayer for Landback. This is inextricably linked with abolition, reparations, and a new future now.

usdac.us/nativeland.

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