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Contact Improvisation (CI) is a postmodern dance practice that explores movement through shared weight, touch, and physical awareness. Originating in the United States in 1972, contact improvisation was developed by dancer and choreographer Steve Paxton, drawing on influences from modern dance, aikido, and somatic practices. [2]
Contact Quarterly (CQ) is a contemporary dance magazine established in 1975, with a focus on improvisation and performance. In addition to its periodical publications, the magazine sponsors symposia, workshops, and other programmes to support of contemporary movement arts.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. Contact dance may refer to: Contact improvisation, a form of dance improvisation; Lap dance, a ...
A contact improvisation trio photographed during a workshop led by Nancy Stark Smith (in Florence, Massachusetts, 2017). According to the International Encyclopedia of Dance, contact improvisation is “primarily a duet form (the most basic unit of social interaction) that emphasizes the qualities of mutual trust and interdependence by requiring ongoing contact between the two participants ...
Contact improvisation can be done by any person because the emergence of a movement vocabulary depends on a specific touch and the initiation of weight exchange with another person. Paxton in the late 1970s focused on teaching, performing, and writing about contact improvisation around the country and in Europe. [ 7 ]
Contact improvisation: a form developed in 1973, that is now practiced around the world. Contact improvisation originated from the movement studies of Steve Paxton in the 1970s and developed through the continued exploration of the Judson Dance Theater. It is a dance form based on weight sharing, partnering, playing with weight, exploring ...
Contact improvisation is a somatic style of postmodern dance All forms of dance demand the dancer's close attention to proprioceptive information about the position and motion of each part of the body, [ 29 ] [ 30 ] but "somatic movement" in dance refers more specifically to techniques whose primary focus is the dancer's personal, physical ...
All three stories concern "contact", or its lack. [20] Part One – "Swinging" "Swinging", set in an 18th-century French forest clearing, can be described as a contact improvisation on Fragonard's The Swing [20] a print of which is displayed on an easel when the audience arrives. Sex and concealed identity are involved in this piece of amoral ...