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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Center Dance, in partnership with members of the Western New York dance community, are addressing the controversies surrounding touch through a unique and niche dance form this March. “Mission ...

IF your idea of dance improvisation comes from the “Waiting for Guffman” scene in which Corky St. Clair’s syncopated hips wrestle ineptly with his muse, well, then choreographer Jones Welsh would like ...

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...

--- 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 ...

Skilled improvisers were better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and those that cannot, a ...

--- 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 ...