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by Ken Manheimer — last modified Aug 22, 2011 10:48 AM
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Communication is Intelligence Page Oct 14, 2023 08:55 AM Communication is a medium for and the substance of intelligence.
Discoveries or Trivia? Page Oct 13, 2023 11:07 AM Hard won insights or haphazard trivia? You decide.
What People Do At Jams Page Oct 11, 2023 10:40 AM Here are some touch-points that may help in finding your way at Contact Improv jams.
Learning Contact Improvisation Collection Oct 11, 2023 09:42 AM 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. Guidance about how to participate can provide orientation to help you find what works. In this section I offer such guidance.
Simplifying Selecting Partners Page Oct 11, 2023 09:31 AM The CI exercises I describe involve selecting partners. Trying the exercises with different partners is often illuminating. I like to use a kind of non-competitive "musical chairs" approach to simplify and foster ease in the partner selection process.
Warm-Up: Growing the Small Dance Into Grazing Page Oct 11, 2023 09:21 AM Awareness of your body's small movements can be a way to embracing rather than fighting imbalance and deepening your cooperation with yourself and where you are going. This exercise gradual develops this premise as a group warm-up into "grazing" – exploring and developing interaction with yourself...
Warm-Up: Following Small Inspirations into Grazing Page Oct 11, 2023 09:19 AM "Warm-up" typically means pushing your body to get the juices flowing. While that can be useful, you often don't have to push in order to open your senses and notice inspiration in your own movement and in what's happening around you. This warm-up offers a simple progression to gradually notice and ...
Grazing and "Solo Contact Improv" Page Oct 11, 2023 09:01 AM Cultivating movement from attention to small movements provides a way to tune in and participate that enables you to balance internal and external focus, bringing yourself to connections and to moving on your own.
Exercise: Rising and Descending Together Page Oct 06, 2023 10:01 AM Explore using slight counterbalance to traverse levels together.
Learning Contact Improvisation Folder Sep 04, 2023 03:42 PM 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. Guidance about how to participate can provide orientation to help you find what works. In this section I offer such guidance.
Fundamental Contact Improvisation Skills Page Aug 31, 2023 12:20 PM Brainstorming: Learning to coordinate connected to someone else is as multi-faceted as learning to coordinate with yourself. What skills are useful?
Quotes Collection Page Aug 30, 2023 09:49 AM Pithy quotes appeal to my yearning for clarity. Here are some of my favorites, organized around themes.
Exercise: Slight Counterbalance Page Aug 29, 2023 11:27 AM A Contact Improvisation exercise that provides a basis for sharing your kinesthetic situation with a partner by sharing balance.
Exercise: The Finger Dance Page Aug 29, 2023 11:27 AM A Contact Improvisation exercise that presents a kind of idealized opportunity to practice mutually following a point of contact.
Exercise: Angel and Traveler Page Aug 29, 2023 11:27 AM Cultivate attunement to how someone is organizing their movement.
CI Sharing Balance Page Aug 28, 2023 06:11 PM Sharing balance with another person means cooperating in a fundamental, organic way.
Spherical Database Characteristics and Invariants Page Aug 28, 2023 11:16 AM Brainstorming "Spherical", a prospective federated context-oriented information organization toolkit.
Interconnecting Groups of Details Folder Aug 27, 2023 11:10 AM There is a discrepancy between the contained organization of details in a document on the web and the boundlessly intricate connections of details between documents across the web, in which the organization of the connections is obscure. I can see a comprehensively extensible means for organizing co...
Contact Improv - What Instead of Patterns? Page Aug 23, 2023 12:38 PM It can be tempting to resort to patterned movement in cooperative improvisation, like CI, and avoid the risks and vulnerabilities of uncertainty. Resorting to patterns, however, specifically foregoes the opportunity to mutually discover what best suits the partnership in each moment. I describe here...
Poetry Page Aug 21, 2023 09:31 AM Sometimes I want say more than I am able. And sometimes when I try I wind up with more than I expect.
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