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…
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.
Earthdance Diversity Scholarship – deadline Monday (Sept. 14)
Somehow in my promotion of this, I’ve completely forgotten to post it on my own blog. Earthdance, the famed retreat center in Western Massachusetts where much contact is danced, taught, and lived, is giving out Diversity Scholarships to the October…
Lab recap: NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2015/04/22, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY [rough]
This is a recap and summary of conclusions from our fourth session of the April 2015 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance, “Risk-Taking and All the Fun Stuff,” which I am facilitating this month. What we did We continued exercises…
Summer CI Practica in Central Park?
I’ve been thinking about starting a Contact improvisation “practica” in New York City. In tango circles, a practica is an informal session to work on your tango practice with people away from the social pressures of a milonga, where it’s…
Lab recap: NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2015/04/01, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY
This is a recap and summary of conclusions from our first session of the April 2015 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance, “Risk-Taking and All the Fun Stuff,” which I am facilitating this month. What we did We investigated continuous/daisy-chained…
Wednesday night lab in NYC: “Risk-Taking and All the Fun Stuff”
I am facilitating the Wednesday contact improvisation lab at 100 Grand in April. It starts this coming Wednesday, on April 1. It’s called, “Risk-Taking and All the Fun Stuff. Basics the lab will run all five Wednesdays in April, from…
Three Fundamental Styles of Contact Improvisation
or, Why is it that sometimes I dance with someone who seems to be experienced — but I can’t figure out what the heck they’re doing? As much as we talk about relating to the earth, in a sense, we…
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…
Characteristics of a Jam Crush
Collaboratively created by certain members of the July 4th Earthdance Jam on July 5th, 2014, edited by Amy W. and Richard A rarely-acknowledged but all-too-common phenomenon in the contact improvisation community is the Jam Crush. In the kitchen one night…
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…