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…
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Why do I sometimes come out of a contact class and feel like I don’t know what I’ve learned?
The West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival ran some 25+ years in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Festival would offer something like 25 different classes over five days around the Fourth of July holiday, along with a ton of jamming. When I…
Rules
You’re in a CI beginners class, and after a series of fun warm-up exercises, the teacher is getting down to business. She’s imparting information now, and she says the following mystical sentence: “There’s only one rule in contact improvisation, and…