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| A Description: What Is Contact Improvisation? | Page | Jan 12, 2021 06:45 PM | 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. |
| Quotes Collection | Page | Nov 13, 2020 02:27 PM | Pithy quotes appeal to my yearning for clarity. Here are some of my favorites, organized around themes. |
| 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... |
| An Online Contemplative Movement Score | Page | Oct 19, 2020 06:21 PM | 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. |
| 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 ... |
| An Online Collaborative Movement Accumulation Score | Page | Oct 10, 2020 06:25 PM | Paying attention to others through a screen adds another level of challenge to an already challenging proposition, inherent in any collaborative improvisation, of paying attention to yourself and to others at the same time. This combination of inwards and outwards attention can be key to collaborati... |
| 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... |
| Contact Improvisation | Collection | Aug 15, 2020 11:36 AM | I love this dance/sport, especially spontaneous, exquisite cooperation that can happen. |
| 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. |
| Real Faith | Page | Jun 24, 2020 10:09 AM | My primary article of faith: Reality Exists. Duh. |
| The Finger Dance | Page | Jun 08, 2020 09:07 AM | A Contact Improvisation exercise that presents a nearly ideal opportunity to practice following a point of contact. |
| Poetry | Page | Apr 27, 2020 11:22 AM | Sometimes I want say more than I am able. And sometimes when I try I wind up with more than I expect. |
| Respecting Boundaries | Page | Apr 18, 2020 11:23 AM | Contact Improvisation and open ensemble movement improv are based around mutual cooperation rather than control. To work well they depend on respect for one another's boundaries, which we describe here. Please read, to help foster a healthy and safe jam! |
| Steve Paxton's 1977 Small Dance Guidance | Page | Mar 22, 2020 12:16 PM | Notes taken from Steve Paxton's class in February 1977, during ReUnion’s teaching/performing tour of Contact Improvisation on the West Coast. Throughout the tour, the members of the 1977 ReUnion (Nita Little, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Curt Siddall, Nancy Stark Smith, and David Woodberry) transcri... |
| "Myriadicity" | Page | Feb 11, 2020 04:13 PM | I like depth, but sometimes need to widen my focus, notice more of what's around. I use "myriadicity" to refer to the abundance of the world, around and within, to be discovered. |
| The Exam | Page | Aug 02, 2019 07:25 PM | Instructions: Read each question carefully. Answer all questions. Time limit -- 4 hours. Begin immediately. |
| Page | Jun 20, 2019 06:31 PM |
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