CQ Reprints: #2
Kinetic Awareness
Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers. Reprint from CQ Vol. 18 No. 2.
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| Basic Neurocellular Patterns Exploring Developmental Movement The Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement. They have a ...read more |
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
| 86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more |
| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
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| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
| Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed. The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of ...read more |
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
| Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive (DVD) Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance documents of Contact Improvisation from its inception in 1972. |
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| 86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more |
| Action Theater The Improvisation of Presence For over 25 years, Ruth Zaporah has trained people in her innovative improvisational form--Action Theater. Through its investigation into the ...read more |
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Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser Since the 1950s, Anna Halprin has been shaking up the field of dance, breaking down barriers between stage and audience, ...read more |
|
| Basic Neurocellular Patterns Exploring Developmental Movement The Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement. They have a ...read more |
| Body and Earth An Experiential Guide In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Andrea Olsen offers a guide to a holistic ...read more |
| BodyStories A Guide to Experiential Anatomy The information in BodyStories is applicable to dancers, artists, athletes, bodyworkers, massage therapists, teachers, and individuals with injuries or with ...read more |
|
| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
| A Choreographic Mind Autobodygraphical Writings This collection of essays by choreographer and teacher Susan Rethorst tracks the emergence of her "practical philosophy" of choreographic thought, ...read more |
| Composing while Dancing An Improviser’s Companion Dance improviser and coeditor of Contact Quarterly, Melinda Buckwalter mines her direct experience of the improvisational strategies of 26 pioneering contemporary dance artists and their varied approaches to this art form. With a mosaic of histories, methods, sample practices, source writings, and biographies of the artists, including Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Nina Martin, Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Min Tanaka, et al. Composing offers a much needed and inspiring resource for dancers and dance educators. Watch the YouTube infomercial. |
| Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form In this book the author draws upon her own extensive experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, ...read more |
| Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement This book is a playful and skillful guide that supports body-mind integration and the development through movement of an improvisational ...read more |
|
| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
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CQ chapbook 1: |
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CQ chapbook 2: unwritable notes on an unthinkable practice |
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CQ chapbook 3: An introduction to the practice of Topf Technique® and Dynamic Anatomy |
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CQ chapbook 4: on the nature of spontaneous composition where dance meets science |
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CQ chapbook 5: |
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CQ chapbook 6: |
| CQ Reprints: #1 Interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Two early interviews by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action) |
| CQ Reprints: #2 Kinetic Awareness Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers. Reprint from CQ Vol. 18 No. 2. |
| CQ Reprints: #3 Ideokinesis & Creative Body Alignment Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work. Reprint from CQ Vol. 22 No. 2. |
| CQ Reprints: #4 Regarding Richard: Richard Niles Bull, 1931–1998 Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation." Reprint from CQ Vol. 24 No. 1. |
| CQ Reprints: #5 Now Thyself, 3 Installments Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence. |
| CQ Reprints: #6 Growing Up in Public: The Making of an Autobiographical Dance for Lucas Hoving Choreographer Remy Charlip describes the process of co-creating a performance of Lucas Hoving's life stories that premiered at BAM in New York City in 1984. Included is a version of the script that they co-authored, as performed by Hoving on his 75th birthday in 1987. Reprint from CQ Vol.13 No. 2. |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
| Dancing Deeper Still The Practice of Contact Improvisation Through numerous detailed essays on the practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation, longtime Contact teacher Martin Keogh presents Dancing Deeper ...read more |
| Embodied Lives Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Since the mid-1980s, Suprapto Suryodarmo's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his ...read more |
| Encounters with Contact Dancing Contact Improvisation in College Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the ...read more |
| Force of Nature (DVD) a performance documentary with Kirstie Simson Over the course of five years, award-winning director Katrina McPherson filmed improvising dance artist Kirstie Simson performing and teaching across ...read more |
|
| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
| Handbook in Motion An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this ...read more |
| Ideokinesis A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment An introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd. |
| Inside Motion An Ideokinetic Basis for Movement Education Inside Motion is a comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark body alignment work as developed by dancer ...read more |
| A Kinesthetic Legacy The Life and Works of Barbara Clark A Kinesthetic Legacy is a comprehensive guide to the life and works of Barbara Clark, one of America’s most innovative ...read more $55
new edition coming soon |
| The Knowing Body The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance This hands-on guidebook offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process involved in transforming personal stories to theater. Including journal ...read more |
| Landscape of the Now A Topography of Movement Improvisation Author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. ...read more |
|
| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
.jpg)
| A Moving Presence (DVD) Ruth Zaporah and Action Theater Following sixteen people through a two-week workshop in New Mexico, we enter the challenging improvisational world of Action Theater™ and ...read more |
| My Body, The Buddhist Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral ...read more |
| On the Edge Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French |
| The Place of Dance A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing ...read more |
| Questioning Contact Improvisation Hennessy’s zine, coming from decades of practice and questioning of CI, interrogates whiteness, racism, heterosexism, and white supremacy in the ...read more |
| Rapids Visions for Body-Mind Centering® These essential messages from Body-Mind Centering® were gleaned from the author-photographer’s initial seven years of study with her pioneering mentor ...read more |
|
| Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed. The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of ...read more |
| Sharing the Dance Contact Improvisation and American Culture In Sharing the Dance , Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and ...read more |
| Standing In Space The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice “Observe the ingredients, the materials of performance, contemplate the particles. Once you find them, train yourself to listen, allow them ...read more |
| Taken by Surprise A Dance Improvisation Reader This collection of new and previously published writings on dance improvisation brings together twenty-one essays by prominent dancers, scholars, and ...read more |
| Terpsichore's Deck Terpsichore’s Deck (named after the muse of dance) is an instructional and inspirational creative text for novice and advanced dance ...read more |
| This Very Moment teaching thinking dancing This Very Moment braids threads of Barbara Dilley’s memoir in and out of a handbook for classroom practices of dance, ...read more Last in-print copies of this edition! |
| Through the Back Situating Vision between Moving Bodies In today’s visual regime, contemporary dance operates as a critical force. It questions univocal representations and dominant cultural ideals of ...read more |
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|
Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
|
| Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive (DVD) Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance documents of Contact Improvisation from its inception in 1972. |
| Wisdom of the Body Moving An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® A comprehensive guide to the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering®, the innovative approach to embodiment pioneered by ...read more |
.jpg)
| Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (DVD) Dance and Body-Mind Centering® A rare document of a workshop led by ground-breaking movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, creator of Body-Mind Centering® in Brussels ...read more |
|
| 86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more |
|
| Action Theater The Improvisation of Presence For over 25 years, Ruth Zaporah has trained people in her innovative improvisational form--Action Theater. Through its investigation into the ...read more |
|
| Basic Neurocellular Patterns Exploring Developmental Movement The Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement. They have a ...read more |
|
| Body and Earth An Experiential Guide In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Andrea Olsen offers a guide to a holistic ...read more |
|
| BodyStories A Guide to Experiential Anatomy The information in BodyStories is applicable to dancers, artists, athletes, bodyworkers, massage therapists, teachers, and individuals with injuries or with ...read more |
|
| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
|
| A Choreographic Mind Autobodygraphical Writings This collection of essays by choreographer and teacher Susan Rethorst tracks the emergence of her "practical philosophy" of choreographic thought, ...read more |
|
| Composing while Dancing An Improviser’s Companion Dance improviser and coeditor of Contact Quarterly, Melinda Buckwalter mines her direct experience of the improvisational strategies of 26 pioneering contemporary dance artists and their varied approaches to this art form. With a mosaic of histories, methods, sample practices, source writings, and biographies of the artists, including Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Nina Martin, Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Min Tanaka, et al. Composing offers a much needed and inspiring resource for dancers and dance educators. Watch the YouTube infomercial. |
|
| Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form In this book the author draws upon her own extensive experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, ...read more |
|
| Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement This book is a playful and skillful guide that supports body-mind integration and the development through movement of an improvisational ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
|
| Dancing Deeper Still The Practice of Contact Improvisation Through numerous detailed essays on the practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation, longtime Contact teacher Martin Keogh presents Dancing Deeper ...read more |
|
| Embodied Lives Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Since the mid-1980s, Suprapto Suryodarmo's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his ...read more |
|
| Encounters with Contact Dancing Contact Improvisation in College Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the ...read more |
|
| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
|
| Handbook in Motion An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this ...read more |
|
| Ideokinesis A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment An introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd. |
|
| Inside Motion An Ideokinetic Basis for Movement Education Inside Motion is a comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark body alignment work as developed by dancer ...read more |
|
| A Kinesthetic Legacy The Life and Works of Barbara Clark A Kinesthetic Legacy is a comprehensive guide to the life and works of Barbara Clark, one of America’s most innovative ...read more $55
new edition coming soon |
|
| The Knowing Body The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance This hands-on guidebook offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process involved in transforming personal stories to theater. Including journal ...read more |
|
| Landscape of the Now A Topography of Movement Improvisation Author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. ...read more |
|
| My Body, The Buddhist Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral ...read more |
|
| On the Edge Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French |
|
| The Place of Dance A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing ...read more |
|
| Questioning Contact Improvisation Hennessy’s zine, coming from decades of practice and questioning of CI, interrogates whiteness, racism, heterosexism, and white supremacy in the ...read more |
|
| Rapids Visions for Body-Mind Centering® These essential messages from Body-Mind Centering® were gleaned from the author-photographer’s initial seven years of study with her pioneering mentor ...read more |
|
| Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed. The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of ...read more |
|
| Sharing the Dance Contact Improvisation and American Culture In Sharing the Dance , Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and ...read more |
|
| Standing In Space The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice “Observe the ingredients, the materials of performance, contemplate the particles. Once you find them, train yourself to listen, allow them ...read more |
|
| Taken by Surprise A Dance Improvisation Reader This collection of new and previously published writings on dance improvisation brings together twenty-one essays by prominent dancers, scholars, and ...read more |
|
| Terpsichore's Deck Terpsichore’s Deck (named after the muse of dance) is an instructional and inspirational creative text for novice and advanced dance ...read more |
|
| This Very Moment teaching thinking dancing This Very Moment braids threads of Barbara Dilley’s memoir in and out of a handbook for classroom practices of dance, ...read more Last in-print copies of this edition! |
|
| Through the Back Situating Vision between Moving Bodies In today’s visual regime, contemporary dance operates as a critical force. It questions univocal representations and dominant cultural ideals of ...read more |
|
| Wisdom of the Body Moving An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® A comprehensive guide to the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering®, the innovative approach to embodiment pioneered by ...read more |
|
|
Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser Since the 1950s, Anna Halprin has been shaking up the field of dance, breaking down barriers between stage and audience, ...read more |
|
| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
|
| Force of Nature (DVD) a performance documentary with Kirstie Simson Over the course of five years, award-winning director Katrina McPherson filmed improvising dance artist Kirstie Simson performing and teaching across ...read more |
|
| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
|
| A Moving Presence (DVD) Ruth Zaporah and Action Theater Following sixteen people through a two-week workshop in New Mexico, we enter the challenging improvisational world of Action Theater™ and ...read more |
|
|
Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
|
| Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive (DVD) Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance documents of Contact Improvisation from its inception in 1972. |
|
| Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (DVD) Dance and Body-Mind Centering® A rare document of a workshop led by ground-breaking movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, creator of Body-Mind Centering® in Brussels ...read more |
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CQ chapbook 1: |
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CQ chapbook 2: unwritable notes on an unthinkable practice |
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CQ chapbook 3: An introduction to the practice of Topf Technique® and Dynamic Anatomy |
|
|
CQ chapbook 4: on the nature of spontaneous composition where dance meets science |
|
|
CQ chapbook 5: |
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CQ chapbook 6: |
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| CQ Reprints: #6 Growing Up in Public: The Making of an Autobiographical Dance for Lucas Hoving Choreographer Remy Charlip describes the process of co-creating a performance of Lucas Hoving's life stories that premiered at BAM in New York City in 1984. Included is a version of the script that they co-authored, as performed by Hoving on his 75th birthday in 1987. Reprint from CQ Vol.13 No. 2. |
|
| CQ Reprints: #5 Now Thyself, 3 Installments Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence. |
|
| CQ Reprints: #4 Regarding Richard: Richard Niles Bull, 1931–1998 Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation." Reprint from CQ Vol. 24 No. 1. |
|
| CQ Reprints: #3 Ideokinesis & Creative Body Alignment Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work. Reprint from CQ Vol. 22 No. 2. |
|
| CQ Reprints: #2 Kinetic Awareness Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers. Reprint from CQ Vol. 18 No. 2. |
|
| CQ Reprints: #1 Interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Two early interviews by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action) |
|
| 86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more |
|
| Action Theater The Improvisation of Presence For over 25 years, Ruth Zaporah has trained people in her innovative improvisational form--Action Theater. Through its investigation into the ...read more |
|
|
Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser Since the 1950s, Anna Halprin has been shaking up the field of dance, breaking down barriers between stage and audience, ...read more |
|
| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
|
| A Choreographic Mind Autobodygraphical Writings This collection of essays by choreographer and teacher Susan Rethorst tracks the emergence of her "practical philosophy" of choreographic thought, ...read more |
|
| Composing while Dancing An Improviser’s Companion Dance improviser and coeditor of Contact Quarterly, Melinda Buckwalter mines her direct experience of the improvisational strategies of 26 pioneering contemporary dance artists and their varied approaches to this art form. With a mosaic of histories, methods, sample practices, source writings, and biographies of the artists, including Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Nina Martin, Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Min Tanaka, et al. Composing offers a much needed and inspiring resource for dancers and dance educators. Watch the YouTube infomercial. |
|
| Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form In this book the author draws upon her own extensive experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, ...read more |
|
| Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement This book is a playful and skillful guide that supports body-mind integration and the development through movement of an improvisational ...read more |
|
| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
|
| CQ Reprints: #4 Regarding Richard: Richard Niles Bull, 1931–1998 Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation." Reprint from CQ Vol. 24 No. 1. |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
|
| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
|
| Embodied Lives Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Since the mid-1980s, Suprapto Suryodarmo's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his ...read more |
|
| Encounters with Contact Dancing Contact Improvisation in College Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the ...read more |
|
| Force of Nature (DVD) a performance documentary with Kirstie Simson Over the course of five years, award-winning director Katrina McPherson filmed improvising dance artist Kirstie Simson performing and teaching across ...read more |
|
| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
|
| Handbook in Motion An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this ...read more |
|
| The Knowing Body The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance This hands-on guidebook offers a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process involved in transforming personal stories to theater. Including journal ...read more |
|
| Landscape of the Now A Topography of Movement Improvisation Author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. ...read more |
|
| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
|
| A Moving Presence (DVD) Ruth Zaporah and Action Theater Following sixteen people through a two-week workshop in New Mexico, we enter the challenging improvisational world of Action Theater™ and ...read more |
|
| My Body, The Buddhist Through a series of imaginative approaches to movement and performance, choreographer Deborah Hay presents a profound reflection on the ephemeral ...read more |
|
| On the Edge Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French |
|
| The Place of Dance A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing ...read more |
|
| Sharing the Dance Contact Improvisation and American Culture In Sharing the Dance , Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and ...read more |
|
| Standing In Space The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice “Observe the ingredients, the materials of performance, contemplate the particles. Once you find them, train yourself to listen, allow them ...read more |
|
| Taken by Surprise A Dance Improvisation Reader This collection of new and previously published writings on dance improvisation brings together twenty-one essays by prominent dancers, scholars, and ...read more |
|
| Terpsichore's Deck Terpsichore’s Deck (named after the muse of dance) is an instructional and inspirational creative text for novice and advanced dance ...read more |
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| This Very Moment teaching thinking dancing This Very Moment braids threads of Barbara Dilley’s memoir in and out of a handbook for classroom practices of dance, ...read more Last in-print copies of this edition! |
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| Through the Back Situating Vision between Moving Bodies In today’s visual regime, contemporary dance operates as a critical force. It questions univocal representations and dominant cultural ideals of ...read more |
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
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| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
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| Contact Improvisation An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form In this book the author draws upon her own extensive experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, ...read more |
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| Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement This book is a playful and skillful guide that supports body-mind integration and the development through movement of an improvisational ...read more |
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| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
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| Dancing Deeper Still The Practice of Contact Improvisation Through numerous detailed essays on the practice and teaching of Contact Improvisation, longtime Contact teacher Martin Keogh presents Dancing Deeper ...read more |
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| Encounters with Contact Dancing Contact Improvisation in College Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the ...read more |
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| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
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| Questioning Contact Improvisation Hennessy’s zine, coming from decades of practice and questioning of CI, interrogates whiteness, racism, heterosexism, and white supremacy in the ...read more |
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| Sharing the Dance Contact Improvisation and American Culture In Sharing the Dance , Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and ...read more |
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| Taken by Surprise A Dance Improvisation Reader This collection of new and previously published writings on dance improvisation brings together twenty-one essays by prominent dancers, scholars, and ...read more |
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
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| Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive (DVD) Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance documents of Contact Improvisation from its inception in 1972. |
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Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser Since the 1950s, Anna Halprin has been shaking up the field of dance, breaking down barriers between stage and audience, ...read more |
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| Basic Neurocellular Patterns Exploring Developmental Movement The Basic Neurocellular Patterns (BNP) form the underlying words and phrases in the language of human movement. They have a ...read more |
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| Body and Earth An Experiential Guide In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Andrea Olsen offers a guide to a holistic ...read more |
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| BodyStories A Guide to Experiential Anatomy The information in BodyStories is applicable to dancers, artists, athletes, bodyworkers, massage therapists, teachers, and individuals with injuries or with ...read more |
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| CQ Reprints: #1 Interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Two early interviews by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action) |
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| CQ Reprints: #2 Kinetic Awareness Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers. Reprint from CQ Vol. 18 No. 2. |
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| CQ Reprints: #3 Ideokinesis & Creative Body Alignment Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work. Reprint from CQ Vol. 22 No. 2. |
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| CQ Reprints: #5 Now Thyself, 3 Installments Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence. |
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| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
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| Ideokinesis A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment An introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd. |
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| Inside Motion An Ideokinetic Basis for Movement Education Inside Motion is a comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark body alignment work as developed by dancer ...read more |
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| A Kinesthetic Legacy The Life and Works of Barbara Clark A Kinesthetic Legacy is a comprehensive guide to the life and works of Barbara Clark, one of America’s most innovative ...read more $55
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| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
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| The Place of Dance A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making The Place of Dance is written for the general reader as well as for dancers. It reminds us that dancing ...read more |
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| Rapids Visions for Body-Mind Centering® These essential messages from Body-Mind Centering® were gleaned from the author-photographer’s initial seven years of study with her pioneering mentor ...read more |
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| Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed. The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of ...read more |
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| Wisdom of the Body Moving An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® A comprehensive guide to the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering®, the innovative approach to embodiment pioneered by ...read more |
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| 86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more |
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Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser Since the 1950s, Anna Halprin has been shaking up the field of dance, breaking down barriers between stage and audience, ...read more |
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| Caught Falling The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas The inside-out of dancer/ Contact Quarterly editor Nancy Stark Smith’s life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year ...read more |
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| Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement This book is a playful and skillful guide that supports body-mind integration and the development through movement of an improvisational ...read more |
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| Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD) Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year This documentary about Contact Improvisation was shot at CI36, a celebration of Contact’s 36th birthday in 2008 which brought together ...read more |
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| CQ Reprints: #1 Interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Two early interviews by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action) |
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| CQ Reprints: #2 Kinetic Awareness Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers. Reprint from CQ Vol. 18 No. 2. |
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| CQ Reprints: #3 Ideokinesis & Creative Body Alignment Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work. Reprint from CQ Vol. 22 No. 2. |
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| CQ Reprints: #4 Regarding Richard: Richard Niles Bull, 1931–1998 Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation." Reprint from CQ Vol. 24 No. 1. |
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| CQ Reprints: #5 Now Thyself, 3 Installments Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence. |
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| CQ Reprints: #6 Growing Up in Public: The Making of an Autobiographical Dance for Lucas Hoving Choreographer Remy Charlip describes the process of co-creating a performance of Lucas Hoving's life stories that premiered at BAM in New York City in 1984. Included is a version of the script that they co-authored, as performed by Hoving on his 75th birthday in 1987. Reprint from CQ Vol.13 No. 2. |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1975-1992 This is the first volume of writings reprinted from Contact Quarterly dance journal concerning the practice of contact improvisation, a ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. II Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 1992-2007 In celebration of Contact Improvisation’s 36th anniversary, we released this second volume of the multivioiced history of the dance form’s ...read more |
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| CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. III Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018 This third volume of Contact Improvisation's multivoiced evolution is collected from CQ Vol. 33 through 43, including writings from CI ...read more |
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| Embodied Lives Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement Since the mid-1980s, Suprapto Suryodarmo's moving/dancing has inspired many thousands of people in the West, and many more in his ...read more |
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| Encounters with Contact Dancing Contact Improvisation in College Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the ...read more |
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| Force of Nature (DVD) a performance documentary with Kirstie Simson Over the course of five years, award-winning director Katrina McPherson filmed improvising dance artist Kirstie Simson performing and teaching across ...read more |
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| Gravity In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more |
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| Handbook in Motion An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this ...read more |
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| Ideokinesis A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment An introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd. |
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| Inside Motion An Ideokinetic Basis for Movement Education Inside Motion is a comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark body alignment work as developed by dancer ...read more |
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| A Kinesthetic Legacy The Life and Works of Barbara Clark A Kinesthetic Legacy is a comprehensive guide to the life and works of Barbara Clark, one of America’s most innovative ...read more $55
new edition coming soon |
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| Material for the Spine - Steve Paxton (DVD-rom) A Movement Study In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet ...read more unplayable on Windows 10 |
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| A Moving Presence (DVD) Ruth Zaporah and Action Theater Following sixteen people through a two-week workshop in New Mexico, we enter the challenging improvisational world of Action Theater™ and ...read more |
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| On the Edge Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French |
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| Rapids Visions for Body-Mind Centering® These essential messages from Body-Mind Centering® were gleaned from the author-photographer’s initial seven years of study with her pioneering mentor ...read more |
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| Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed. The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering® Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis and reeducation, Body-Mind Centering®, is the subject of ...read more |
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| Terpsichore's Deck Terpsichore’s Deck (named after the muse of dance) is an instructional and inspirational creative text for novice and advanced dance ...read more |
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| Through the Back Situating Vision between Moving Bodies In today’s visual regime, contemporary dance operates as a critical force. It questions univocal representations and dominant cultural ideals of ...read more |
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983) VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance and training documents of Contact Improvisation from its very beginning in ...read more Inventory Sale |
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| Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive (DVD) Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
VIDEODA, a project of Contact Collaborations, Inc., archives performance documents of Contact Improvisation from its inception in 1972. |
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| Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (DVD) Dance and Body-Mind Centering® A rare document of a workshop led by ground-breaking movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, creator of Body-Mind Centering® in Brussels ...read more |
