“Contact Improvisation is a dance that invites our entire body and being to be present and available. To dance this form, we need to build a capacity for trust with ourselves and our partners. We nurture or harm that trust by our ability or inability to set and respect boundaries.” — M. Keogh (from 101 Ways to Say No to Contact Improvisation)
Here are some pictures from the recent Third Friday Jam: 2012-03 Third Friday Jam
“Touch and movement can be powerfully good medicine anywhere, I think, especially when they come with a willingness to listen to what lives/moves under the touch and to meet that life with a benevolent, creative, albeit not intentionally therapeutic intent. Dancing — embodying impulse and perception, curiosity, creativity — liberates.” — Nancy Stark Smith
Here’s a nice video of Steve & Angie and Tim & Chris at the Moab Jam in 2007: “Moab Jam, 2007”
“‘Replace ambition with curiosity’ is an invitation to relax, to use the energy that might otherwise be taken up in worrying about geting it right, to follow one’s curiosity and imagination in pursuing what it is that is actually arising. Discover it. Penetrate. Play. Dance. Invest in what’s there.” — Nancy Stark Smith
