I recently taught a CI class at Lehman College as a one-day guest teacher, as part of a larger course on movement for actors and dancers, assisted by my friend and frequent dance partner Funda. This is a recap of…
Diversity in CI, 2016 edition
It was a fruitful, encouraging, and yet painful weekend at this past Falling Leaves Jam when it comes to diversity. A conversation about diversity revealed many difficult truths about where we’re at as a community in our thinking and actions…
Earthdance Diversity Scholarship – deadline September 7
For the third straight year, Earthdance, the famed retreat center in Western Massachusetts where much contact improvisation is danced, taught, and lived, is giving out Diversity Scholarships to its October 2016 Falling Leaves Jam. The deadline to apply is Wednesday,…
Your CI summer 2016
A bunch of random one-off contact improvisation events have been flitting around on my Facebook feed, collecting in my e-mail inbox, and occupying space in my brain, so I thought it was time to make a list of them. This…
The Rhodonite feedback score, for 7 dancers
At CI Ground Research one year ago, my research group (“Rhodonite”) developed a score to give each other feedback, described below. With CI Ground Research starting again today, I thought some attendees (and the CI world generally) might find useful the…
Lab recap (4/4): NYC CI Lab, Wed., 2014/07/30, at 100 Grand Dance, New York, NY [rough]
Deep from the backlog, this is a recap and summary of conclusions from the fourth of four sessions of the July 2014 dance lab at 100 Grand Dance (titled “Velocity”), which I facilitated. There’s a lot that’s forgotten and possibly…