Here are some important resources for creating a more ethical culture for Contact Improvisation as well as some articles on sociocultural issues that affect Contact Improvisation.

Contact Improvisation & Dance

• Brooks Yardley: Respecing Boundaries : Coexisting Genders, Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv
• Kathleen Rea: The Newcomer Experience in Contact Dance Improvisation
• Kathleen Rea: “That lady”: The story of what happened when a woman put up a boundary in the contact improv world
• Kathleen Rea: Contact Improvisation Jam Boundary Guidelines
• Megan Emerson: The Stages of Consent Culture for Dance Communities
• Michele Beauliex: How the First Rule Brought #MeToo to Contact Improvisation
• Sarah Gottlieb: Myths to Break Down: Moving Toward Ethical Communication and Ethical Sexuality in CI
• Sarah Gottlieb: A response to a reader regarding Myths to Break Down
• Sarah Gottlieb: Myth #4: It’s okay to heal me with contact improv
• West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: 2017 Inclusivity Statement
• West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo – Dancers’ Group
• West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam: Jam Guidelines & Protocol for Boundary Violations

Ability

• Mia Mingus – Moving Toward the Ugly : A Politic Beyond Desirability | Leaving Evidence
• Eli Clare – Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies, Disability and Queerness

Appropriation

• Jarune Uwujaren – The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation

Class

• Poor People with Nice Things
• Carmen Rios – Seven everyday things poor people worry about that rich people never do | openDemocracy

LGBTQIA*

• Evin Taylor – Cisgender Privilege, On the Privileges of Performing Normative Gender
• CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Straight People
• CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Cisgender People

Race

• Robin DiAngelo – White Fragility
• Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• Maria P P Root – A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People
• Shin Yin Khor – What Would Yellow Ranger Do?
• Jennifer Loubriel – 4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
• John Dovidio & Samuel Gaertner – Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? The Pernicious Nature of Contemporary Racism