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…
Author: richard
I've been dancing contact improvisation since 2003, starting in Los Angeles, California (USA). I love a strict point of contact with weight-sharing, and can spend all day doing nothing.
Class recap: 1.5-hour class, Mon., 2016/11/21, at Lehman College, Bronx, NY
I recently taught a CI class at Lehman College as a one-day guest teacher, as part of a larger course on movement for actors and dancers, assisted by my friend and frequent dance partner Funda. This is a recap of…
Diversity in CI, 2016 edition
It was a fruitful, encouraging, and yet painful weekend at this past Falling Leaves Jam when it comes to diversity. A conversation about diversity revealed many difficult truths about where we’re at as a community in our thinking and actions…
Earthdance Diversity Scholarship – deadline September 7
For the third straight year, Earthdance, the famed retreat center in Western Massachusetts where much contact improvisation is danced, taught, and lived, is giving out Diversity Scholarships to its October 2016 Falling Leaves Jam. The deadline to apply is Wednesday,…
Your CI summer 2016
A bunch of random one-off contact improvisation events have been flitting around on my Facebook feed, collecting in my e-mail inbox, and occupying space in my brain, so I thought it was time to make a list of them. This…
The Rhodonite feedback score, for 7 dancers
At CI Ground Research one year ago, my research group (“Rhodonite”) developed a score to give each other feedback, described below. With CI Ground Research starting again today, I thought some attendees (and the CI world generally) might find useful the…
Lab recap (4/4): NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2014/07/30, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY [rough]
Deep from the backlog, this is a recap and summary of conclusions from the fourth of four sessions of the July 2014 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance (titled “Velocity”), which I facilitated. There’s a lot that’s forgotten and possibly…
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…
Martin Keogh & Ray Chung, with commentary
Martin Keogh has posted a old performance of his with Ray Chung on his blog, from the Freiburg Festival about 14 years ago. You may have seen this one before (I have). But now he’s added a DVD commentary track,…
Support Diversity, Get a Private CI Lesson
For the next two weeks, to help fundraise for the Earthdance Diversity Scholarship Fund to the Falling Leaves Jam, I’m offering private contact improvisation lessons if you make a donation to the Diversity Scholarship Fund. For a donation of only…