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| | Improvisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Blues, jazz and bluegrass are well-known for using improvisation. | | | Musical improvisation is also a widely used technique in music therapy, in the form of clinical improvisation. | | | Improvisation can be structured, with certain rules constraining the improvisation (for example, "make up a song about bicycles", "use these chord changes", and so on), or can have no such constraints (free improvisation). |
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| | Contact improvisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Contact Improvisation is a form of dance improvisation and is one of the best-known and most characteristic forms of postmodern dance. | | | Contact Improvisation was initially developed by a group of dance artists, led by Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith, as an exploration in improvised dance. | | | Contact Improvisation can be practiced as concert or social dance form. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_Improvisation
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| | Contact Improvisation |
| | Contact improvisation is a dance form invented in New York in the 1960s by Steve Paxton and other members of the Judson Dance Theater. | | | Don't spurn the priorities and interests of new converts who love contact improvisation and have a vision of what it could be. | | | In fact, although there are no performances anywhere of plain contact improvisation, you see scraps of CI in almost every modern dance performance and even in rock videos. |
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http://www.toobeautiful.org/contact.html
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| | Vol 4 Ed 2 - transcript of nancy stark smith discussion |
| | One of the fundamental forms of contact improvisation practice is the jam, and implicit in that form is watching, to be present to the gaze of others. | | | So when you listen to musicians improvising together you notice how well do they play their instrument, how well do they get along as musicians and how powerful are the aesthetics. | | | On Sunday 17th of December a forum on contact improvisation and performance was held at Performance Space, Sydney. |
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http://proximity.slightly.net/v_four/v4e2a1.htm
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| | Dance improvisation is addressed in several articles that discuss the healing nature of creative dance forms and one article that discusses the curative qualities of dance improvisation. | | | The topic of contact improvisation is placed in several different areas in the Library of Congress system, and is cataloged using terms that are not congruous with dance terminology. | | | Contact improvisation consistently retrieved relevant results and was overall the most successful term that I used. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kkraus/601.html
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| | Contact Improvisation |
| | Contact Improvisation is a duet dance form often described as an art/sport that involves following a single point of contact as you share weight, lift and roll with a partner. | | | Contact Improvisation, Wednesdays, 9/11 - 10/23, 8:30 - 10:00 p.m., FH, $140 | | | Perfect for those who have never done contact improvisation before or for experienced contactors who want to revisit the fundamentals. |
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http://www.joyofmotion.org/Archive/fall_reg_forms/contact_improv_regform.htm
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| | Workshops |
| | Contact Improvisation is an improvised duet movement form set in motion by choreographer Steve Paxton in 1972. | | | Alone, in contact, in groups, in silence, and with occasional live music, we’ll study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship. | | | A class for experienced contact improvisers designed to deepen, refresh, and refine our dancing in contact improvisation while expanding our compositional awareness and integrating CI into a broader field of improvised dance. |
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http://www.nancystarksmith.com/workshops/BATES06.htm
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| | Annie Brook - Movement Education |
| | Contact is a mixture of inner listening, rolling, gymnastic-like moves, healthy sensuality and play. | | | Contact Improvisation creates a divine marriage between improvisation and full body movement. | | | Contact Improvisation and Body Mind Centering book and Awakening Body audio tape set. |
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http://www.anniebrook.com/movement_ed.html
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| | Dance improv festival set for Sept. 29-30 (Sep 25, 2000) |
| | Dance improvisation classes for adults and kids as well as contact improvisation workshops, lectures, a panel discussion and two nights of performances incorporating dance and technology will be held at the Dance Improvisation Festival, Sept. 29-30, in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. | | | K.J. Holmes, contact improviser, dancer, singer and poet based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Peter Jones, Mount Holyoke College, dance musician, composer and creator of works for piano, chamber ensembles and combinations of percussion and keyboards. | | | Nationally known guest artists, dance scholars and members of the community are invited to explore dance improvisation in a weekend festival later this month sponsored by the UW Dance Program. |
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http://www.news.wisc.edu/story.php?get=5334
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| | University of Oregon News Releases |
| | Impellizzeri and Teutschel perform the spoken word-and-dance title piece, "The Dollar Value of Contact Improvisation," which promises to be a highly entertaining, visually stimulating duo. | | | EUGENE—"The Dollar Value of Contact Improvisation," a dance concert celebrating the 30th anniversary of the "contact improvisation’ dance form, will launch the 2002-2003 season for the University of Oregon’s Department of Dance on Friday, Oct.4. | | | The show ends with a surprise and a tribute to contact improvisation, integrating the aspects of touch, weight and flight. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uocomm/newsreleases/2002/20020917P.html
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| | London Contact Improvisation |
| | She was the chief organizer of the 15th ECITE (European Contact Improvisation Teacher’s Exchange) in 2000 July and established the annual Kontakt Budapest, International Improvisation Dance and Music Festival in 2002 in Budapest. | | | She believes that Contact Improvisation is not only the ultimate form of adult play, but a philosophy to live by that can be applied to any aspect of life. | | | She studied improvisation, contact improvisation and release technique in Europe and in the United States with the foremost teachers: S. Paxton, N.Stark Smith, A.Harwood, J.Hamilton, J.Skinner,, R.Zaporah, D.Heitkamp, K.Simson. |
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http://www.contactimprovisation.co.uk/London/teachers.html
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| | Z.Of - ZIP.Orvietofestival 2005 |
| | She runs Contact Improvisation and Improvisation workshops in Italy and abroad; most recently invited by Romaeuropa Promozione Danza – Organization for the Promotion of Dance, for a master of Contact Improvisation for the Institution I.U.S.M., Istituto Universitario Scienze Motorie (University Institute of the Science of Movement). | | | She has participated, both as a performer and a teacher, in European improvisation projects and in Contact Improvisation (Tanzfabrik Berlin 1991 - 1993, Festival Valencia 1994, ECITE in Budapest 2000; International Contact Freiburg Festival 2004, among others). | | | Originally classical and modern dance studies, she has then develop her contemporary dance backgrounds with postmodern and new dance generation teachers, as well as Release Technique, Butoh, Contact improvisation and Improvisation trainings. |
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http://www.contactfestival.it/ENG/bio_ross.html
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| | Contact Improvisation at Temescal Arts Center: Hilary Bryan.com |
| | Contact Improvisation, Action Theater, and meditation make up his complex and distinct performance style of physical improvisation. | | | Born in Russia, transplanted to the Bay Area in 2001, his studies have included contact improvisation, dance, physical theater, clowning, as well as various somatic disciplines and improvisation modalities. | | | A skills-based Contact Improvisation workshop for those that want to increase the control and precision in their dance. |
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http://www.hilarybryan.com/ContactSeries.htm
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| | CHICAGO CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM |
| | Contact improvisation and other forms of improvised dancing/exploration are welcome. | | | Regional Contact Improvisation events (outside of the Chicago area) | | | On the first Wednesday of each month, we have a contact improvisation fundamentals class. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~contactimprov/chicagojam.html
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| | Israeli Contact Festival - teachers |
| | As of 2000, we’ve been working together as an independent duo performing and staging improvisation shows, as well as teaching improvisation and contemporary dance technique to children and adults. | | | In the course of my artistic career, I’ve drifted closer toward performing improvisation and movement research. | | | I’ve been particularly interested in my performance progression for it helps me find answers to some of the questions while teaching and improvising. |
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http://www.contactil.org/teachers/2005/workshops/sasha&sereoja.shtm
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| | Contact Improvisation Dance by Martin Keogh: YES! magazine |
| | Notice the aftertaste and the echo of the aftertaste. | | | I teach a dance form called Contact Improvisation. | | | For a longer version of this article and for more information about Contact Improvisation, see Contact Quarterly, Summer/Fall 2002. |
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| | Madison Contact Improvisation Jam |
| | The best place to learn more about Contact Improvisation on the web is at: http://www.contactimprov.net/. | | | The cost is $5, and it includes live improvised percussion. | | | The Madison Contact Improvisation Sunday night Jam takes place the last Sunday of every month 6:30-8:30 pm at the Hancock Center, 16 N. Hancock St. in downtown Madison. |
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http://www.madstage.com/madstage/Companies/contact.html
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| | Contact Improvisation Canada |
| | Often a meditative practice, improvisation is done without music, to allow space to tune into what is happening and the moment-to-moment impulses of the body. | | | The "Contact Jam" is an invitation to practice improvising in contact with others, oneself, and the environment. | | | NbyNE Contact Improv Mailing List (Eastern Canada and USA) |
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| | Vol 4 Ed 3 - thoughtful contact |
| | This perspective is that dance improvisation is ‘just movement’, and that dancers need to suspend their thinking in order to ’just move’. | | | In a recent improvisation workshop I was distressed to be told not to think. | | | Dance improvisation, according to Sheets-Johnstone (1999), is essentially |
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| | Article 01 |
| | Simone Forti was also in the performance and she's familiar with contact improvisation, but also with physical contact in general in performance. | | | What are you doing?', rather than ‘Is this improvised or isn't this improvised'. | | | We realized we didn't have the same assumptions about what it meant to improvise in performance. |
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| | The Gilbert Center: Team |
| | She has been a Contact Improvisation instructor since 1996 and her dance company, Humility Swim, is pushing the edges of dance, organizing, and social commentary. |
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| | Harlan Brownlee's Choreography Page |
| | Contact Improvisation is a duet form based on physical contact. | | | My choreogrpahy is primarily in Modern dance and working with Structured Improvisations and Contact Improvisation. | | | Devised by Harlan Brownlee as a mix of choreography, improvisation, and speech (live and recorded), it showed the local City in Motion in the best light. |
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http://www.supportcentralkc.net/choreo.html
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| | CI and ATM Weekend |
| | Due to the risk of injury in contact improvisation and the country environment, all participants are expected to sign a release of liability for Split Tree Farm and Studio. | | | The structured contact improvisation will be a mix of beginner classes, open jams, and advanced technique sharing. | | | Other Split Tree events, home page, links to info about contact improvisation |
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http://www.splittree.org/misc_pages/CIATM01.htm
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| | Contact Improvisation ~ in Boston |
| | More Contact, Improvisation and Other Related Stuff and Links | | | Among other events, they hold a Contact Improvisation Jam, each month on the 2nd Sunday, potluck at 7pm, followed by dancing... | | | offers a weekly contact and movement improvisation class on at the Wednesdays in Watertown, a twice-monthly mixed-ability dance class on Sundays, and occasional workshops and classes at a variety of locations. |
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http://www.geocities.com/contactimprovboston
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| | improvisationfestival |
| | The DC 8th International Improvisation Festival is seeking to bring together DC-based, national and international dancers, musicians and performance artists for two weekends of performances and classes. | | | The festival was founded by Maida Withers and later co-curated with Jim Levy, music curator, Daniel Burkholder, contact improvisation, Cyrus Khambatta, theatre/dance, and Sharon Mansur, dancer. | | | The DC International Improvisation Plus+ Festival introduces audiences to diverse approaches to improvisation as a performing art and provides artists with opportunities for networking and exchange. |
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http://home.gwu.edu/~withers/improvisationfestival.html
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| | Instruction Support |
| | The learner should recall some history of Contact Improvisation, including its origins, as well as the characteristics of Contact Improvisation concerning gender and mixed ability. | | | In addition to non-dancers, this program is suited to the undergraduate dance student who is preparing to take a class in Contact Improvisation. | | | The learner will learn what Contact Improvisation looks like via the viewing of three of video clips. |
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http://is.asu.edu/projects/information/dance.html
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| | Contact Improvisation |
| | CI25 was the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Contact Improvisation, held at Oberlin College, June 1997. | | | Thereíll be live music with experienced improvisers and warm-up classes with international teachers to lend some atmosphere and inspiration. | | | The Ontario Regional Contact Improvisation Jam is open to anyone, from anywhere on the planet, who is interested in contact improvisational dance. |
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http://www.contactimprov.net
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| | JFDC & DanceAbility: About JFDC & DanceAbility |
| | He was one of the first choreographers to integrate Contact Improvisation vocabulary into dance pieces. | | | He has taught and performed Contact Improvisation internationally for more than 20 years and produces the Breitenbush Contact Improvisation Jam and Conference, every year since 1981. | | | While remaining true to its roots, he has taken Contact Improvisation into contemporary developments including choreography, danced theater, and mixed-abilities dance with his DanceAbility methods, which partly draw on Contact Improvisation. |
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http://www.danceability.com/about.html
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| | Nomadété : New Dance and Contact Improvisation in the Ariège Pyrénées |
| | Contact Improvisation and Bodywork: Music, Nature, imagination and our partners will invite us to dance and to explore our authentic language through movement and gesture. | | | Practicing Contact Improvisation in the middle of the mountains will invite us to open all our senses and to discover new ways to dance together. | | | Nomadété : New Dance and Contact Improvisation in the Ariège Pyrénées |
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http://www.ariege.com/cavalus/nomadete/info.html
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| | Videoda |
| | This piece is often referred to as the seminal work for Contact Improvisation. | | | an edit of the first Contact Improvisation concert in NYC at the John Weber Gallery in 1972. | | | edit of a Contact Improvisation concert in California in 1974 with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others. |
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| | Earthdance Calendar |
| | Every contact improvisation teacher brings their distinct approach to the form. | | | Zany Performance Art: Learning to master multipdisciplanary performance through movement, singing, sounding, and the spoken word with Rose Oceania and Rythea Lee. | | | Movement Jam with Live Improvised Music with Einstein's Little Homonculus. |
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http://www.earthdance.net/calendar.htm
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| | K.J. Holmes: Body Mind Centering® Contact and Improvisation |
| | Jennifer Monson is an improvisational practitioner and choreographer, dedicated to the use of the improvisational form in the art of performance. | | | K.J. Holmes, an independent dancer, singer, poet and body-worker, has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. | | | K.J. Holmes: Body Mind Centering® Contact and Improvisation |
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http://www.bearnstow.org/holmes.htm
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| | Great Lakes Contact Improvisation Community Event Listings |
| | This section lists links for contact improvisation dance activities outside the GLACIER area. | | | Internationally acclaimed Contact Improvisation teacher Kirstie Simson will be teaching in Minneapolis! | | | "Nowhere Bound," a Contact Improvisation Intensive with Martin Keogh in Mazomanie, WI |
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| | University Catalog 2005 University of Colorado at Boulder |
| | Class work includes contact improvisation skills: rolling, falling, giving and taking weight, and use of momentum and gravity. | | | Introduces the basic elements of dance composition through compositional studies evolved from readings, discussion, and improvisation. | | | Contact improvisation is the practice of spontaneously generating movement guided by moment-to-moment physical contact and sharing of weight between two or more dancers. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/catalog/catalog05-06/courses.html?s=2-53-2-4
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| | Contact Improvisation Home |
| | You are one of the first to visit this new online resource for Contact Improvisation around the world. | | | focus will be on contact improvisation classes and jamming. | | | (I cropped out the x-rated portions of the sign!) In fact, I'm told by my French Canadian friend, Kim, that this is the reason why Contact Improvisation is not refered to as "Contact Dance" in Quebec. |
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| | openarmsdance.com - culture links |
| | "A magazine devoted to new dance/movement and improvisation practise". | | | This neat site contains information about Malcom Manning's teaching methods as well as authentic movement and dance improvisation. | | | "Here you will find tons of stuff related to improvisation theatre. |
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| | practice : contact improvisation jams & weekend workshop with Jacob Lehrer & David Corbet August 27 - 29, 2004 Cecil Street Studio & Dancehouse The focus of this workshop has two components; fundamental practice, suitable for those new to Contact Improvisation, and extended practice, suitable for those with experience of the form. | | | This connection is often found through listening, supporting and utilising each other¹s body weight. | | | Contact Improvisation is a style and technique in which the dancers move spontaneously while maintaining a connection. |
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http://snorkel.rtfm.com.au/~aspect/ci
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| | Omniseek: /Arts & Humanities /Performing Arts /Dance /Modern /Contact Improvisation |
| | Michael Furstner's JAZCLASS : music lessons on music theory, blues, jazz, improvisation, chords and scales on all instruments, and saxophone technique. | | | Jazz music theory Books covering improvisation, composing, arranging, ear training and chord voicings. | | | Arts & Humanities /Performing Arts /Dance /Modern /Contact Improvisation |
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http://www.omniseek.com/search/search.html?%%bW9kZT1PbW5pc2VlayZ0aWQ9ODQ5NjEmY250PTI1JmJnbj0w
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| | Martin Keogh Contact Improvisation |
| | Earthdance: Plainfield, MassachusettsIntensive training in contact improvisation co-facilitated with Ray Chung | | | Below you will find my itinerary of contact improvisation events. | | | Earthdance: Plainfield, Massachusetts CITE (Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange) co-facilitated with Nancy Stark Smith |
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http://www.martinkeogh.com
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| | Contact Editions |
| | 21 essays by prominent practitioners reflecting the development of improvisation as a compositional and performance mode. | | | Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation. | | | An investigation into the life-reflecting process of improvisation. |
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http://www.contactcollaborations.com/ce/ce.html
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| | Naropa Weekly- News and Information for the Naropa Community |
| | Adwoa Lemieux began studying contact improvisation in 1981. | | | We will play with improvising in solo, duet, trio and group dances. | | | This class would be appropriate for a beginner as well as a seasoned contact improviser wishing to deepen his/her practice in this dance form. |
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http://www.naropa.edu/news/082505/weekly082505_2n.html
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| | Continuing Education - Contact Improvisation |
| | Open to all (experience with Contact Improvisation recommended) | | | Housing assistance limited (contact Tom or Laurie for details) |
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http://www.txstate.edu/continuinged/ci.htm
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| | Oleg Soulimenko |
| | Studies also with Natascha den Boeft (New Dance and Contact Improvisation) in Moscow and Amsterdam, with Kirstie Stimson (Contact Improvisation) in Italy and Vienna, Rasti Lester (Contact Improvisation) in Vienna, Anzu Furukawa (Butoh Dance) in Toscana, Ka Rustler (Body Mind Centering) in Toscana and Julyen Hamilton (Improvisation) in Amsterdam. | | | Feeling, taste, soul, rhythm, composition, materials and improvisation. | | | I will always remember his improvisation in Vologda 1993: he entered the stage, sat down on a chair and smoked, while Heinz-Erich Gödecke was playing. |
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http://www.avantart.com/dance/soulimen.htm
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| | Contact Improvisation Los Angeles |
| | The Los Angeles Contact Improvisation Newsletter contains announcements for contact improvisation and other dance and dance-related events and opportunties on the west coast, particularly in the southern CA and Bay areas. | | | If you're new to contact improvisation, start with our new to CI? | | | There is a mailing list/discussion group for the LA contact improvisation community, hosted by Yahoo!Groups. |
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| | Contact Improv |
| | Originating in 1972, Contact Improvisation utilizes gravity, momentum, lifts, falls, rolls and the exchange of weight between two partners. | | | Atlanta Contact Improvisation Link (click for information, directions, photos) | | | Email dastewart [@] aol.com for more information about Atlanta Contact Improvisation. |
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| | UW Press - : Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture, Cynthia J. Novack |
| | In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts. | | | UW Press - : Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture, Cynthia J. Novack | | | This book examines the ways contact improvisers (and their surrounding communities) encode sexuality, spontaneity, and gender roles, as well as concepts of the self and society in their dancing. |
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| | Contact Improvisation in Amsterdam-Weekly Jam Info |
| | Please contact us!) However we often dance without music, following the original style of the form. | | | Contact improvisation is an open dance form for everyone. | | | One of the great things about contact improvisation is how easy it is to join in, regardless of your level. |
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http://www.geocities.com/amsterdamjam
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| | Dance Spirit Magazine - Contact Lens |
| | Contact improvisation explores movement choices based on touch, weight, gravity and momentum. | | | Paxton describes this state in “Fall After Newton,” a video that traces the development of contact improvisation from 1972 to 1983: “Standing still is not actually still. | | | "Contact improvisation is not unlike child’s play; it engages the experience and imagination of each dancer through a dialogue based on touch, momentum and stillness." |
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| | Carolina Contact |
| | We are a group of people who meet every Sunday at 2:00 at the Balanced Movement Studio in Carrboro, NC to participate in the dance form Contact Improvisation. | | | Meet a fun and diverse group of people | | | Sharing the Dance; Contact Improvisation and American Culture by Cynthia J. Novack |
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