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Here is Itay Yatuv’s presentation at the TEDx conference at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on contact improvisation: TEDxBGU – Itay Yatuv – Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue

Here’s a video of Martin Keogh talking about the differences he sees between “more conventional” dance (like ballet and modern dance) and contact improvisation: Martin Keogh – Dance (Contact Improvisation)

Here’s a lovely video of Irene Sposetti and Johan Nilsson at the No Mind 2012 festival by Mike Poltorak: A Contact Improvisation Dialogue at No Mind 2012

“You’ve been falling in gravity since the day you were born. Because it is constant, gravity is ignorable. Movement and gravity are another of those ‘intimate and sensitive’ relations in that every movement will relate to gravity — dramatized by the notion that only the surface on which one is supported is causing a pause in the fall. While standing, we are falling toward our feet, i.e., the force of gravity remains operative.” — Steve Paxton

“However much Contact Improvisation is codified, presented as a collection of 562 techniques, made to be entertaining, dressed to be pretty or graceful, shaped to be therapeutic, practiced in rooms filled with social interaction and conversation, used as a basis for building a community, etc — ultimately, its initial stance of empowering an individual to rely on their own physical intelligence and to meet their moment with senses open and perceptions stretching and compose their own response, remains intact.” – Daniel Lepkoff

Here’s the output from the video lab at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam took this year. Over three hours of video pared down to 8 minutes.  Great to see so many familiar folks! 🙂  2012 West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam Video Lab

Here is a nice video of some NYC CI dancers exploring the use of negative space and positive space in a contact improvisation dance: negative space = positive space

Here’s a video of “dance interludes” from the 2011 ECITE meeting in Ibiza, Spain.  (I make a brief appearance in the video, heh!):  ECITE2011

Here’s a nice video clip of Jörg Hassmann and Kristen Greco at CI36.

“But when I return to the country, I am struck by the difference in what is required by the senses.  It is appalling how we disuse the body, and dance reminds us about that.  Dance explores some of the physical possibilities.  Dance refocuses our focusing mind on very basic existence.  And, time, space, and gravity open up to creativity.” — Steve Paxton