Quick Posts

    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.”

    Here is a Contact Improvisation video called “Poured Out,” featuring dancers in Maidan, Kiev, Ukraine.   Film by: LisaVia (Inna Pavlichuk). Video by: Evgeniy Titov & LisaVia. Dancers: Katya Basalaeva, Alex Postnikov, Artem Markov, Katya Garyanskaya, Inna Falkova: Poured Out

    “You’ve been falling in gravity. 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

    1 2 3 … 17