Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Contact Improv is hard to explain to someone who has never done it, but let me try. Contact Improv: Improvisational dance with a partner. You aren't supposed to use a word in its definition, are you?

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...

Contact improvisation isn’t just dance without choreography, it’s life — a microcosm illuminating a way to be in the world. “Who you are as a person is who you are as an improviser,” says Nancy Stark ...

Colours in Contact jams and classes offer a beautiful opportunity to explore passion, inspiration, creativity, love, and respect in order to create deeply attuned dances between participants. Learn ...

Oberlin College will welcome 270 dancers from around the world and host hundreds of practitioners of contact improvisation during a five-day festival from July 7-11. Critical Mass: CI@50 celebrates 50 ...

The wcciJAM is a Contact Improvisation dance festival created by dancers, for dancers. The teachers and organizers work together to create a unique program of practice, research, play and peer ...

Center Dance, in partnership with members of the Western New York dance community, are addressing the controversies surrounding touch through a unique and niche dance form this March. “Mission ...

This article takes as its point of departure Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions, in which a woman-speaker tries to make her lover and the discipline of philosophy understand that she is not how they ...

We’re squirming around on the floor tangled up like puppies -- my friend Laura, the dance instructor and I. The teacher rolls his leg over mine as he moves an arm over Laura. He’s talking very quietly ...