This article takes as its point of departure Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions, in which a woman-speaker tries to make her lover and the discipline of philosophy understand that she is not how they ...

Contact improvisation isn’t just dance without choreography, it’s life — a microcosm illuminating a way to be in the world. “Who you are as a person is who you are as an improviser,” says Nancy Stark ...

Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Three days of contact improvisation classes and jams from Saturday May 16 through to Victoria Day Monday. A contact jam is a time and place to improvise movement in contact with oneself, others, and ...

--- The Center Jam ---A monthly contact improv class and jam at the Center SF. We start with a beginner-friendly 1 hour fundamentals class, which aims to create a safe space for new dancers. Then, we ...

--- The Center Jam ---A monthly contact improv class and jam at the Center SF. We start with a beginner-friendly 1 hour fundamentals class, which aims to create a safe space for new dancers. Then, we ...

Oberlin College will welcome 270 dancers from around the world and host hundreds of practitioners of contact improvisation during a five-day festival from July 7-11. Critical Mass: CI@50 celebrates 50 ...

Contact Improv is hard to explain to someone who has never done it, but let me try. Contact Improv: Improvisational dance with a partner. You aren't supposed to use a word in its definition, are you?

I already saved the date months before: 18-23 June, Warsaw Flow 2014 Contact Improvisation festival. Given the fact that it was going to be intense to discover the limits of my senses and enhance my ...

We’re squirming around on the floor tangled up like puppies -- my friend Laura, the dance instructor and I. The teacher rolls his leg over mine as he moves an arm over Laura. He’s talking very quietly ...