Learning Contact Improvisation
by
Ken Manheimer
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last modified
May 17, 2023 10:57 AM
Nobody can adequately explain how to do CI just as nobody can adequately explain how to walk. You learn by doing. However, we can provide each other with clues about how to participate in a way that supports learning. Perhaps the most basic clue is tuning in so you are able to pay attention to what is happening within and around you, without one precluding the other. Here are some exercises designed for this.
Fundamental Contact Improvisation Skills
Learning to coordinate connected to someone else is as multi-faceted as learning to coordinate with yourself. What skills are useful?
The Finger Dance
A Contact Improvisation exercise that presents a kind of idealized opportunity to practice following a point of contact.
Slight Counterbalance
A Contact Improvisation exercise that conveys the sense of a kinesthetic connection with a partner by sharing your center of gravity, and thereby sharing your collective dynamic balance.
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