This workshop invites participants into collective improvisation, drawing on Kumi Maxson’s work as a performing artist and teacher to explore improvisation's role in political and social change.

Introductory - Advanced

Kumi Maxson is an experimental bassist (upright and electric) practicing within the jazz tradition, using composition and improvisation to explore a liberated sense of being through embodied practice. Based in Santa Cruz, they have facilitated multi-week collective-improvisation workshops at Indexical built around the role improvisation plays in political and social change: non-hierarchical spaces open to all levels of experience, including beginners. Their practice draws on lived experience to find pathways toward collective liberation.