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      2011-02-24

      February 24, 2011

      “I’ve been saying the same thing for twenty five years… [Contact improvisation is] a raw material. So I got a little bit disturbed when I realized that people were taking this raw material and accepting it as is. So I’m now trying to bring back into the Contact world the idea that there is technical work here to be studied. And the reason to study it, to take a technical point of view, is because it is the way out of the improvisational paradox, which is: what to do when you run into your own habits? How do you get out of them? Technique is the way out.” — Steve Paxton

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