Learning Contact Improvisation

    Explaining how to do CI is like explaining how to walk or swim or surf or ride a bike – these kinds of things are learned by doing. However,  you can get hints about how to participate – to tune in and engage – in a way that invites what the practice teaches.

    Contact improv is organized differently than most partner dance, as a kind of game: mutually following shared points of contact? Like walking or riding a bike, you learn to do it by exploring it. However, experience can reveal hints about how to explore in a way that make it easier to discover what works.

    In the connected pages I share ways to engage that I find useful. Here are the fundamental ones:

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