Category: news and trends

Your CI Winter 2016-2017

Again there’s a great set of CI-related events coming up in New York and the surrounding area. Here’s some of what’s going on in the next few months, December 2016 through March 2017. As usual, this is a non-exhaustive round-up…

A great start to CI in 2016

2016 begins with an exciting confluence of contact improvisation events in the northeastern part of North America that I can’t recall seeing in years. Alicia Grayson, Kirstie Simson, and Andrew Harwood are all coming to this part of the world…

CI events, spring 2015

Spring in the northeastern part of North America brings a trickle of CI events, though April is pretty quiet. Here’s the latest: Sunday, March 15, Northampton: Winter Underscore. I think the location is secret because there’s limited participation — you…

CI Events, Fall 2014 (part 2)

As a follow-up to my previous post, here’s what’s going on from now through the end of the year that I know about in the Northeastern part of North America: Monday, November 3 to Friday, November 7, Montreal: Montreal’s annual…

CI events, Fall 2014 (part 1)

It’s an exciting time to be a contact improvisation dancer in Northeastern North America. Lots and lots of workshops, classes, jams, and new initiatives are going on. Here’s a tour of some (but I’m sure not all) of them. As…

Looking ahead, Spring 2014

If you live in the Northeastern part of the United States, there’s a flood of contact improvisation events coming up New York and other areas in the next few months. Here’s a list to help you sort through it all.…

Unicorns, or why this picture moves me

I find this picture, recently posted to the Contact Quarterly Newsletter, surprisingly moving. The reason, I think, is that it’s like seeing a unicorn. It is rare, and beautiful, and mythical. It is something that you never thought you would actually…

The Toronto Sunday Jam

There are many special things about the Sunday Toronto contact jam, celebrating its 35th anniversary on Sunday, September 8, 2013. The space The first, and one that lingers strongly with me, is the space. It’s not clear what Dovercourt House,…