improvisation

Photo: Miryam Coppersmith

Take It Off (hers/ours/yours)

Emilee Lord

The simple act of undressing is imbued with more significance when it is performed with careful attention.

Photo: Celine Asril

The Future of CI: Part Two – Potentials

Nadia Khayrallah

Despite the form’s inequities, many continue to find radical potential in Contact Improvisation

Photo: Sze-Wei Chan

The Future of CI: Part One – Critique and Questioning

Nadia Khayrallah

Earthdance’s conference unpacks the myth of the universal body in contact improvisation

Photo: Erik Carter and courtesy of thomas defrantz

thomas defrantz and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko at Moving Bodies, Social Justice

Kara Nepomuceno

“What a thing, to have a technology available that registers feeling as an achievement.”

Photo: Gilbert Szabó

On DanceAbility: Talking Mixed-Abilities Dance with Connie Vandarakis

Jonathan Stein

DanceAbility is a contemporary improvisation dance practice that is totally inclusive.

Photo: Emma Kohn

Pulsing and Embracing Contact Improvisation in Cuba

With a sense of familiarity and surprise, I feel I’m in Cuba for the first time.

Photo: Mascher Space Cooperative

Coalescing in Context: Movement Sound Experiment at Mascher

Kat J. Sullivan

The patterns and places of synchronicity gave the evening a sense of unity.

Photo: Tori Lawrence

A Love Letter from the Field

Kat J. Sullivan

'Attention emerges from the sensing body--it is the body'

Photo: Nicole Bindler

Swimming Toward Meaning

Maddie Hopfield

In Bindler’s world, the aqueous is not tethered to the aesthetic qualities of smooth, slow, continuous, or sequential.

Photo: David Chin

Semi-Composed: Metamorphosis Offers John Cage-Inspired Evening

Karl Surkan

Groenendaal, Faylor, and their collaborators have created a show that would never be exactly the same twice.