The second lesson was about contact improvisation. Contact improvisation is a form of improvisation dance. The main idea in contact improvisation is that physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Movement can have rolling, falling, pushing and pulling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact.
The founder of contact
improvisation is a American choreographer Steve Paxton. The contact improvisation was seen first time in
1972 in a performance called Magnesium by Paxton. It was performed with 11
students at Oberlin College. The performance included inner-focused movement
and athleticism including wrestling, falling, jumping and rolling. Paxton explored this movement style further
rehearsing with a group of dancers at the John Weber Gallery in New York. Nancy
Stark was part of this group and she is
also a founding participant in contact improvisation. They gave the first
contact improvisation performance in the summer of 1972 and the performance had
a powerful emotional and kinesthetic effect on audiences.
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Usually music is not used in contact improvisation so that dancers can feel the contact better. Also one of the reasons for not using the music is that the music is not leading dancer´s movements too much. Music can be used on the background of contact improvisation to make the movement easier.
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| Contact improvisation Steve Paxton and David Woodberry |
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