Quick Posts

Here’s a 12 minute video of a workshop with Karl Frost composed of snippets from the workshop and of Karl talking about CI in general: Contact Improvisation with Karl Frost

Here’s a nice “trailer” video called “Five Ways In” about “the story of five people and their journeys through the Freiburg International Contact Improvisation Festival of 2012”: Five Ways In

“This rigorous contemplative practice [of the “Small Dance”] tuned us to the subtlety and intelligence of the reflexes of the body, which in turn became the foundation for the more overtly disorienting flinging and flying of bodies in space that we would practice on the mats.” — Nancy Stark Smith

Here’s a lovely video of a contact improvisation duet between Javier Cura and Linda Bufali taken during the Notte Nera Festival in August, 2012: Contact Dance with Javier and Linda 

Here’s a “teaser” video of the 2012 Ibiza Contact Festival from this past summer. I miss dancing with all of the lovely people at Cala Jondal! Teaser Ibiza Contact Festival 2012

“You have to relax to a certain degree to have the dance work well. You have to feel your weight, notice your sensation. You have to listen. You have to bring yourself to it. You can’t over-control, but you can’t be too passive either. Contact [Improv] encourages people to discover and invent; to cooperate, challenge, create within their limits. Did I mention generosity? There are a lot of people, myself included, who feel like it is peace work. But it can also be many different things, depending on what you emphasize in your practice.” — Nancy Stark Smith

To celebrate the 40th birthday of Contact Improvisation, dancer Alice Le Guiffant created this video for the 2012 Freiburg Festival with the aim of dancing with 40 people aged 0 to 40.  Contact Improvisation – 0 to 40

“The question is, are we training to get better at doing what our partner expects us to do or at being ready to be surprised and respond to something we didn’t expect? I would say the latter, but the former happens too.” — Nancy Stark Smith

Here’s a nice, 90-second Contact Improvisation video from Annalaura and Thomas in Cologne, Germany: Contact Improvisation

Here’s a 45 minute interview with Nancy Stark Smith in which she “explains with details the Underscore as framework for exploration and reserach for movement improvisational practices”: An emergent Underscore: a conversation with Nancy Stark-Smith