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| Title | Item Type | Modification Date | Description |
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| A Description: What Is Contact Improvisation? | Page | Aug 24, 2022 11:30 AM | CI is a game organized around a very simple premise: exploring movement cooperation organized around mutual contact points. It offers an opportunity for extraordinarily immediate and involving physical play for the sake of play. |
| Ken Manheimer on Real Faith | Comment | Jun 24, 2020 10:09 AM | I see described in this article nifty examples of the kinds of errors that litter scientific process, not as an indictment of systematic failure but [...] |
| Slight Counterbalance | Page | Jun 27, 2022 03:44 PM | 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. |
| Fundamental Contact Improvisation Skills | Page | Jun 26, 2022 07:27 PM | Learning to coordinate connected to someone else is as multi-faceted as learning to coordinate with yourself. What skills are useful? |
| An Online Movement-based Accumulation Score | Page | Jun 10, 2022 04:16 PM | Paying attention to others through a screen adds to the challenge inherent in collaborative improvisation of paying attention to yourself and to others at the same time. This score is organized in a way that fosters combining inward and outward attention. |
| Fundamental Contact Improvisation Skills | Page | May 24, 2022 05:14 PM | Learning to coordinate connected to someone else is as multi-faceted as learning to coordinate with yourself. What skills are useful? |
| The Finger Dance | Page | May 24, 2022 04:08 PM | A Contact Improvisation exercise that presents a kind of idealized opportunity to practice following a point of contact. |
| An Online Contemplative Movement Score | Page | May 14, 2022 10:20 AM | Barbara Dilley developed a shared dance/meditation practice called Contemplative Dance Practice – CDP, a "dancer's meditation hall". I've been exploring adaptation of this score for online sharing. The aim is to share meditation and movement across the gap of social distancing. |
| Quotes Collection | Page | Mar 02, 2022 09:19 AM | Pithy quotes appeal to my yearning for clarity. Here are some of my favorites, organized around themes. |
| CI Different From and Similar To Partner Dance | Page | Feb 28, 2022 12:21 PM | Preparing to teach at a large dance festival with people who practice other kinds of partner dance, I wanted to alert them to different orientations, inherent in CI, that can lead to similar satisfactions. |
| About Contact Improvisation | Page | Feb 28, 2022 12:09 PM | In CI, partners discover their dance by mutually following shared points of contact. How does that work? Here's my enthusiastic perspective. |
| Welcome to Ken Manheimer's Website | Collage | Jan 09, 2022 02:01 PM | I use this site to make my stuff available in a lasting way, including work-related efforts and also casual musings and explorations. I try to be clear about which is which. |
| Contact Improvisation | Collection | Oct 04, 2021 06:09 PM | I love this dance/sport, especially spontaneous and very engaging cooperation that can happen. |
| Elementary Online Meditation and Personal Movement Practice | Page | Oct 26, 2020 01:46 PM | |
| Exploring Collaborative Movement Improv Online | Page | Oct 20, 2020 01:38 PM | During the COVID-19 quarantine I've been exploring online ways to maintain the skills and enjoyment of sharing improvised movement. Here are some scores that I've tried and like, and also some logistical info for those interested in participating in these as ongoing practices. In the process of expl... |
| Finding Solo Movement Inspiration in Small Changes | Page | Oct 10, 2020 06:56 PM | Contact Improvisation offers extraordinary opportunities to explore movement cooperation with others and with oneself. I've been curious a question about how to find in solo moving the kind of inspiration that can come from dancing with others. I had been exploring a practice for a long time before ... |
| Ken Manheimer on An Online Contemplative Movement Score | Comment | Oct 05, 2020 04:34 PM | On April 5, 2020, after trying the score a few times, I added the following comment to my initial writeup of the description. In it [...] |
| Online Movement Collaboration | Folder | Aug 15, 2020 11:49 AM | Seeking to maintain the skills and enjoyment of sharing movement exploration I found over many years of practicing Contact Improvisation and related activities while we're unable to gather in-person during the COVID-19 quarantine, I've been exploring ways share collaborative movement online. I'm usi... |
| Silly Craft | Page | Aug 08, 2020 02:31 PM | Funny, feeble, and farfetched stuff. |
| A small selection of Steven Wright jokes | Page | Jul 06, 2020 04:17 PM | I am in awe of Steven Wrights ability to deliver pithy jokes that walk the line between sense an nonsense so fluidly that you often get to notice that moment before you get it. |
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