“Experience relies on our point of view, and the feelings about what is noticed. This experience evolves to include not only the event, but reactions and new attitudes toward memories in ongoing time. Points of view are loaded. Physicists have points in space, poets have points of view. Dancers have both.” — Steve Paxton
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“Improvisation is a practice in disorientation — training the reflexes to read confusion as a challenge, not a threat; that a moment cut loose from its moorings has the advantage of being able to move in any direction, and further, that a temporary absence of reference points can clear the way for impulses from unexpected quarters.” — Nancy Stark Smith
“I’ve been saying the same thing for twenty five years… [Contact improvisation is] a raw material. So I got a little bit disturbed when I realized that people were taking this raw material and accepting it as is. So I’m now trying to bring back into the Contact world the idea that there is technical work here to be studied. And the reason to study it, to take a technical point of view, is because it is the way out of the improvisational paradox, which is: what to do when you run into your own habits? How do you get out of them? Technique is the way out.” — Steve Paxton