Friends of Contact Improv

• Florida Players
  
  Florida Players is a student-run theater company that provides opportunities for students to explore the world of theatre and showcase their works in doing so. Florida Players is open to all University of Florida students, regardless of their major and is sponsored by UF Student Government. Florida Players offers students opportunities in all aspects of theatre, including direction, design, performance, and playwriting, as well as leadership positions. Florida Players is also an umbrella organization to Floridance, a dance company.
  
  
• Theatre Strike Force
  
  Theatre Strike Force is the improv and sketch comedy student organization at UF.  With regular performances and ever increasing membership, TSF has become one of the largest and most popular collegiate comedy groups in the nation.  Although we're best known for our "short-form" improv (popularized by the show “Whose Line Is It, Anyways”), we also perform long-form improv, musical improv, and Saturday Night Live-style sketch comedy. Many of our alumni have moved on to Chicago and Los Angeles, joining the ranks of the best improvisers in the country. We offer beginner classes in improv to anyone whose desire is to have some fun.
  
  
• Dance in a Suitcase
  
  Dance in a Suitcase is a student-run organization designed to expose BFA Dance Majors at the University of Florida to a wide range of learning environments and professional experiences. This organization strives to expose the University of Florida School of Theater and Dance students to other schools, prospective students and educational opportunities outside the city of Gainesville. We aim to challenge the barriers that segregate this country’s diverse artistic communities and foster innovative partnerships that reduce the geographical and cultural isolation of artists from their peers and public communities. Our goal is to bring in guest artists and travel to dance festivals around the country in order to enhance our education and awareness of the entire dance field.  More information:  www.danceinasuitcase.com   or   danceinasuitcase@gmail.com
  
  
• Fight Club (on Facebook)
  
  The purpose of Fight Club is to learn and teach proper and safe techniques for stage combat and to raise awareness of the role stage combat plays in the unfolding of a dramatic narrative.  We define stage combat is an artistic presentation of violence that  is designed to be safe for the performers and to aid in telling  the story of the play or theatrical event.  Any interested, enrolled University of Florida student may be a member.
  
  
• Volaticus - Aerial Dance Club
  
  Volaticus is a Latin derivative for “take flight”; fitting. Volaticus was established to help foster an atmosphere that allows freedom of artistic expression in the form of Aerial Dance. This program recognizes the goal to bring art above the ground in a new era and does so with teaching techniques on the silk and trapeze.  This environment resembles a “ melting pot” including dance, art, theatre, digital design, music, etc. The organization will choreograph and put on performances that allow students to be hands on in every part. Student have the opportunity to “reach new heights” in the Aerial Dance student organization.
  
  
• UF School of Theatre and Dance

  The fundamental purpose and primary responsibility of the School, through its various degree programs, is the education and training of the next generation of artists, scholars, and teachers, enabling them to compete successfully in the professional world. Education and training are inseparable as the School aims for the closest possible union between academic and applied knowledge, theory and practice, experience and reflection, within a thoroughly integrated curriculum that is sensitive both to the practical needs of an ever-changing marketplace and to the intellectual needs of the individual student. Stage and classroom are engaged in constant mutual exchange.