I’m happy to report some progress being made towards greater diversity in contact improvisation. For the first time, Earthdance is offering a Diversity Scholarship for the October Falling Leaves Jam (10/23 – 10/26). The deadline is coming up soon —…
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.
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…
Lab recap (3/4): NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2014/07/23, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY
This is a recap and summary of conclusions from the third of four sessions of the July 2014 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance, which I am facilitating this month. What we did We investigated two topics: (1) ways of…
Lab recap (2/4): NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2014/07/16, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY
This is a recap and summary of conclusions from the second of four sessions of the July 2014 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance, which I am facilitating this month. What we did Our focus was on investigating what we…
Lab recap (1/4): NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2014/07/09, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY
This is a recap and summary of conclusions from the first of four sessions of the July 2014 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance, which I am facilitating this month. What we did Warm-up leading into falling exercise
July NYC CI lab: Velocity [starting W, 7/9]
This July, I’ll be facilitating the New York City Wednesday night dance lab at Bill Young’s Studio (100 Grand St.). July’s lab will focus on contact improvisation and VELOCITY on four Wednesday nights from July 9 to July 30, from…
Can you give me some guidelines/suggestions for playing music at jams?
Music can be an incredibly powerful force in a contact improvisation jam. When played poorly it can be distracting, or even dangerous. It can affect your relationship to your partner and detract from physical awarenesses that keep you alert and…
June 2014: what’s going on
A quick list of special contact improvisation events coming up in New York and surrounding areas in June: Mondays, June 9 to 30: Jesse Johnson is continuing Monday night contact improvisation classes at the Artist Ashram, in the East Village.…
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.…
Contact improvisation New Year’s wishes
I have some wishes for contact improvisation for 2014: That this is a year where CI as a group thinks more about “In” and “Out.” I’d like to see the CI community do some extra reflection this year about how…