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.…
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…