Queer Pop! Jazz Funk: Fresh Meat Festival 2025 Community Class

ABOUT THE JAZZ FUNK WORKSHOP

During this jazz funk class, the focus is on feeling your f***ing fantasy, baby! Jazz Funk is an industry-style dance form that pulls from all styles—some include, but are not limited to, hip-hop, jazz, and heels. This class is all about feeling hot hot hot in your body—whether that’s soft, sharp, sultry, silly, or all of the above.

We’ll kick things off with a 10ish-minute warm-up to get our bodies ready to move—think cardio, isolations, and stretching to wake things up and get everything juicy and alive.

Then we dive into choreography. This class is leveled at intermediate due to its quick pace and the limited breakdown of movement. That said, you’re always encouraged to make the choreography your own—take what feels good, shift what doesn’t. Your body, your rules.

We’ll end by dancing the choreography in small and large groups to give everyone space to fully dance while feeling supported by the collective energy in the room.

This is a safe and supportive space for you to commit to what feels good in your body and to be perceived in the ways you want to be seen.

Class Accessibility Notes:

• If you have any access needs or questions before class, please feel free to reach out—I want you to feel held and hyped up.
• Loud music is used during class—feel free to bring earplugs or let Jess know if you need volume adjustments.
• I recommend wearing clothes and/or shoes that make you feel good, but are also comfortable to get sweaty and dance in.NOHspace entrance, lobby, bathrooms and studio space are wheelchair accessible.
• NOHspace bathrooms are all-gender.

ABOUT JESS BOZZO

Jess Bozzo (they/them) is a trans and queer multidisciplinary artist nestled in the SF/Bay Area. Their artistic practice encompasses drag, film, dance pedagogy, and movement-based performance and choreographic collaborations. As an educator, they are committed to fostering spaces of joy, empowerment, and inclusivity. They have taught contemporary, jazz funk, and vertical dance at studios and festivals across the Bay Area, including Full Out Studios, BANDALOOP Studios, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and Queering Dance Festival. Their teaching practice prioritizes consent-driven movement, body positivity, and the sheer pleasure of dance!

VENUE ACCESSIBILITY

• NOHspace entrance, lobby, bathrooms and studio space are wheelchair accessible.
• NOHspace bathrooms are all-gender.
• This workshop will feature ASL Interpretation: please let us know when you’re coming (email melissa@freshmeatproductions.org)
• KN95 masks will be provided and required for this event.
• Participants are required to be KN95 masked for the entirety of their time inside the building. Our staff will provide KN95 masks to everyone before they enter the building (unless someone’s disability, chronic illness or health condition means they cannot wear a mask).
• By attending the Fresh Meat Festival dance classes, you agree to the following: 1) You do not have any signs of contagious illness (COVID or otherwise), including pink eye, that aren’t fully explained by a non-contagious health condition that you have; and 2) If you have had COVID, it’s been at least 10 days since your first symptoms or positive test if you were asymptomatic.

Be sure to check out our other workshop and performance offerings as part of the 2025 FFRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of trans and queer performance!