Here’s a Contact Improv duet with Kurt Koegel and Ray Chung at the recent Breitenbush Contact Improv jam in March, 2013: Men’s Contact Improvisation Duet 2013 / Kurt Koegel and Ray Chung
Here’s a Contact Improv video, an excerpt from the documentary “Artists in Exile: A Story of Dance in San Francisco.” This video clip highlights Mangrove, an all-male, contact-improv-based company which was active in the San Francisco area in the 70’s: Artists in Exile_Mangrove (Excerpt 3)
Here’s an interview with Chris Aiken, assistant professor of dance and director of the MFA dance program at Smith College. He has performed and collaborated with Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Patrick Scully, and Angie Hauser: Chris Aiken in conversation with Kinebago’s Sara Smith
Here’s a Contact Improv video from the Contact Fest Kiev (Ukraine): Contact Fest Kiev 2012-2013
“Certainly the motivation to achieve, to learn, to try something, to master a skill, is positive and desirable. But it can often overwhelm the subtler curiosities and creative impulses and create stress. Opportunities that arise in the present moment can often be missed when we’re too strongly focused on a particular outcome. This by itself is not particularly serious. But if one gets in the habit of focusing too strongly on what isn’t there, to the exclusion of what is, it can become physically dangerous, as your mind is elsewhere and perhaps not prepared to respond quickly to the situation at hand.” — Nancy Stark Smith
