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Caught Falling, The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas page 90 onwards. Curtis, B. (1988). Exposed to Gravity. Contact Quarterly/ Contact Improvisation Sourcebook I, Vol. 13. Pp. 156-162. dancetechtv (2013) An Emergent Underscore: a conversation with Nancy Stark Smith, London. [online] Available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzG609NWp1Y [Accessed 1 December 2014]. Heitkamp, D. […]
To begin our final improvisation class we began with a simple exercise in partners that consisted of spirals. In partners, a spiral was always in motion with different parts of the body. When I carried out this task I found that the tone of my contact improvisation had dramatically increased, when spiralling my movement became […]
In today’s session we begun by watching back our work from the previous weeks, from this I found it extremely useful in visualising how I moved during contact improvisation. The way in which I fluidly gave my weight to others and smoothly transitioned out of contact lifts positively surprised me. Often when performing I do […]
This week’s class was devised into another contact research lab. The question that my group explored was: ‘Is it possible to do lifts with the same intention and fluidity in trios that it is in duets?’ As a group we decided to explore this question because from our own experiences when taking part in contact […]
In today’s session we began by watching two contact improvisation videos, both videos consisted of a duet between a male and female partnership. The duets equally portrayed a fluid and flowing dance which never broke out of contact, the dancers moved with ease. Martin and Neige who performed a contact duet in the first video […]
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