Note to self: waiting six months to finish your notes from a class is NOT conducive to recording accurately what happened! The following is a mix of my pre-class notes and my (hazy) post-class recollections of what we actually did.…
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: Contact Improvisation: Weight-Sharing & L.A. Style! (2/3) [rough]
Recap of 2-hour class at City Life Wellness in Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, April 12, 2012. Warm-up Investigation of Body, manipulations Pulling Bodies through spirals Bouncing up and down [Stefan Fabry]
Class recap: Contact Improvisation: Weight-Sharing & L.A. Style! (1/3)
Recap of 2-hour class at City Life Wellness in Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, April 5, 2012. This is a combination of my pre-class notes and my recollections and is a little rough — comments and clarifications from students are appreciated.…
Three-week course: Contact Improvisation: Weight-Sharing & L.A. Style! [4/5, 4/12, 4/19]
I am teaching a three-week contact course in New York City. It will run the first three Thursdays of April, April 5, 12, and 19, 8pm to 10pm each night, with an optional bonus session on April 12, 10pm to…
Sounding at jams
I often play live music at jams. I’ve done a lot of it, actually; I’ve been improvising on my instrument for contact dancers for over 9 years, and have been an official musician at several large festivals. Something that I’ve…
Reading List
I’ve created a reading list of writings on CI freely and easily available on the Web. Many of these are “original sources” — that is, writings on CI by major figures in the history of the form, explaining their viewpoints…
Ongoing CI events in New York City
I have, shamefully, not updated this blog with new posts for almost a year. One of my New Year’s goals is to fix this. In the meantime, however, I know that a number of people are visiting this blog to…
Buffalo class postscript
There are a few major topics that I didn’t cover in my Sunday class. I wanted to mention them here briefly. I would try to cover some of these if I came back and taught another class: floor work: rolling…
Class recap: 1.5-hour pre-jam class, Sun., 2011/01/16, at Verve Dance Studio, Buffalo, NY
Dear Buffalo, Here is a recap/outline/partial transcription of the class I taught on Sunday. Please let me know if anything is unclear, or if you remember anything differently, and I’ll be happy to clarify or correct. Thanks to Nancy Hughes…
How to get better? and 6 challenges for intermediate dancers
When you first start dancing contact improvisation, improvement isn’t exactly straightforward, but the feedback is pretty clear. When you stumble, or fall, or can’t complete a movement, you know it. You think, “Hm, that felt awkward. I do that better.”…