Here’s a nice video from CI36 featuring (our very own) Steve Homsher! I really appreciate the aliveness both dancers embody through their legs while they are being lifted as well as their availability into their backspaces: CI36 Steve Homsher, et al.
Here’s an article by Neige Christenson: “Freeing the Mind: Moving with The Work of Byron Katie”
“I value this work [of Contact Improvisation] not only for the rare glimpses of in-touch, in-time, in-tune, but for the companionship of the ever present indications of what is possible. The form itself, if one exists beyond the instances of attempts to experience it, is none other than the existence of the possibility of a dance in which wills, instincts and verges merge. Emergency, emerge, merge. It amounts to having to believe in a possibility which one may never have experienced.” — Christina Svane
Here’s a nice duet with Ray Chung and Neige Christenson at CI36: Neige & Ray duet@3
“Contact Improvisation constructs a formal setting in which to observe a person’s individual process of responding spontaneously to surprising and unusual physical circumstances. This display is a deeply human expression of a dancer’s physical history, imagination, particular survival strategies, and body intelligence.” — Daniel Lepkoff
