Welcome to www.contactimprov.com, a new online world resource for Contact Improvisation. Currently, the news articles below are items/events of interest which I gather or write several times a month. Please feel free to submit your articles for publication review or suggest links that you think I should share here. Come back often as I continue to add new features and information. Enjoy exploring!
1/5/10 Kirk, spock, mccoy and uhura beam down to uncharted planet in paxton-stark-smith quadrant and discover human-like race of contact improvisors. DNE 2008 Skit, Written and Directed by Peter Heller:
8/7/09
Check out Collin Leach's Aquaticontact underwater explorations :
"When I improvise, there is a lot more I'm deciding not to do, than I am deciding to do in my body" (Lisa Nelson)
In looking for improvisational systems that could encompass the particularities of the choreographic craft and still remain spontaneous and co-directed, I devised the Tuning Scores…With the scores, we play with our desire to compose experience, to make our imaginations visible, to develop a sense of ensemble, and to transform our movement into dancing.” — Lisa Nelson
10/2/08
This is a short excerpt from an interview with Steve Paxton shot during CI36, produced by Nathan Wagoner. Here Steve is talking about the history of "Magnesium" the first experiment in performing the CI principles he was developing in 1972.
6/30/08
Contact Quarterly's Webtexts
Webtexts is a new feature on CQ's website. Here you will find a selection of full-length (lightly edited/unabridged) submissions to the paper magazine, unedited transcripts of their current interviews, and timely submissions that we simply had no room to print. To kick it off CQ has published a previously published interview with Nancy Stark Smith Harvest: One History of Contact Improvisation, a talk given by Nancy Stark Smith at the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany, 2005(from back issue CQ Vol. 31 no.2) Check it out and sign up and become a subscribing or virtual member of CQ to read more.
Commitment creates freedom.
When you commit to a movement,
you make it with your whole body.
When you commit to a feeling,
your passion will give power to your message.
When you commit to a dance,
your feeling reaches beyond your limitations.
When you commit to your path,
give yourself over to your way of growth, Magic happens...
obstacles get out of your way, mountains lay down before you,
the sky opens up above you,
and you will find yourself transformed.
