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Here is a Contact Improvisation video of Martin Keogh and Ray Chung dancing in Russia in 2001: Martin Keogh and Ray Chung, 2001, filmed somewhere in Russia

If any of you are near the Dia:Beacon in Beacon, NY, they’re presenting “Steve Paxton: Selected Works” this Friday through Sunday (Oct 24-26, 2014): Dia:Beacon Celebrates Steve Paxton’s Choreography

Here is a Contact Improvisation video of a duet between Brenton Cheng and Sveta Pashko at the 2014 Moscow Contact Improvisation School: Brenton Cheng and Sveta Pashko

Here is a Contact Improv video of Chico Katsube and Shoko Kashima, two friends of Sharing Weight in Japan, presenting a lecture demonstration of contact improvisation at their Kagoshima TEDx event: Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co. | TEDxKagoshima

Steve Paxton, the founder of Contact Improvisation, has been awarded the Goldion Lion for lifetime achievement in dance.   “The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to Steve Paxton for having opened the space of dance to a capillary study of movement as a constant source of origins projecting his experimentation with gravity onto the system of articulations and being the first to instinctively perceive dance as listening and the transfiguration of techniques. The perception of the human being that emerges elevates dance to a founding value of culture and of systems of relations.  The constant exercise of gesture has shown us how man can expand his vision of the world by linking memory to the awareness of belonging to a body and “silently” opening innovative paths to unlimited experimentation in all the arts.”