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Contact Improvisation: Dance with the Earth Body You Have

Chapter of: Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene(pp. 43–48)

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TitleContact Improvisation
SubtitleDance with the Earth Body You Have
ContributorKate Rigby(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0100.1.10
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/manifesto-for-living-in-the-anthropocene/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightRigby, Kate
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2015-04-14
Long abstractContact Improvisation is a form of dance. As the name sug-gests, this is not the kind of dance where everybody knows the steps in advance. While its moves are unscripted, Contact Improvisation also differs from the semi-solo style of arm-flailing and hip-swiveling in which many of us learnt to en-gage as teenagers, for its practitioners are required to remain at all times in close proximity to a partner. “Characteristically performed in a duet,” explains Hellene Gronda:Contact Improvisation combines the freedom to move spontaneously with an injunction to maintain a physical relationship with your partner(s), usually through touch, but also through commitment to a mutual trajectory based on a shared centre of gravity. Body awareness is fundamental to safe practice of the form because it is like-ly to include falling and spatial disorientation. It can be awkward, spectacularly dangerous, or breathtaking and tender. ... Contact Improvisation is primarily practiced in a community activity called a Jam. ( Gronda 2005, 28–29).
Page rangepp. 43–48
Print length6 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)