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Global Underscore Day

  • Ashtanga Yoga Charlottesville 1208 East Market Street Charlottesville, VA, 22902 United States (map)

Global Underscore Day
Saturday, June 20 | Ashtanga Yoga, Charlottesville

Join us for a local participation in Global Underscore Day, an annual worldwide event celebrating the Underscore, a long-form dance improvisation practice developed by Nancy Stark Smith. Rooted in Contact Improvisation and composition, the Underscore offers a shared framework for movement exploration, creative discovery, and connection.

This modified practice will include an optional Talk-Through of the score at 1:30 pm followed by a 2-hour Underscore practice/jam from 2:30–4:30 pm. Prior Contact Improvisation experience is helpful but not required. Participants new to the Underscore are strongly encouraged to attend the Talk-Through.

Facilitated by Emily Wright, who studied directly with Nancy Stark Smith and participated in Underscores she facilitated.

Schedule

  • 1:30 pm: Optional Talk-Through

  • 2:30–4:30 pm: Modified Underscore Practice / Jam

Earlier Event: April 18
National Water Dance

land acknowledgment:

I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Monacan Indian Nation, a Siouan-speaking tribe of the piedmont and mountain regions of Virginia. These lands were occupied by a government that also enslaved Africans and African Americans, and the legacy of this oppression continues to impact Black and Indigenous peoples today. I support the Alliance of Native Seed Keepers, Black Lives Matter, and Showing Up for Racial Justice.