86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research
(deck of cards)
Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published in Contact Quarterly, Vol. 28 no. 2, Summer/Fall 2003, this deck of cards is designed
to help people in their process of organizing materials, perceptions, and decisions related to sound, movement, or any other artistic medium.
The 86 aspects can be used as lenses to evaluate and analyze art, but
they can also focus our attention on the composition of nature and the environment. There is a single aspect on each card, and on the back is
a corresponding question related to the aspect.
"The list of aspects was inspired by the need to examine my own creative practice. I used plain English to name the aspects so as to maximize their usefulness in a wide variety of contexts." —Mike Vargas
Card concept and production by Jun Akiyama
To access Vargas's CQ article, go to: www.mikevargas.net/documents/86%20Aspects.pdf
Contact Editions currently publishes and distributes digital books and videos. You will find links to purchase them below. See also a listing of CE's books in print with links to our new distributors.
Since ceasing to sell physical products in late 2020, we are promoting our former titles on contemporary dance, improvisation, performance, and somatic movement arts on a page of Recommended Books and Videos with links to where to purchase them. These titles are by authors and contributors to Contact Quarterly's pages over 45 years of printing. You can access articles by these authors by searching them on our site.
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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
$21PDF (15 MB) -
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
$25PDF (43 MB) -
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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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
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Chute (1979)
© Videoda
9:36 min.
Narration in EnglishDocumentary of the first Contact Improvisation demonstrations in N.Y.C. at the John Weber Gallery in 1972. With narration by originator, ...read more
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Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
© Videoda 49:05 min.
Document of the 11th anniversary of Contact Improvisation performance festival at St. Mark’s Church in New York City with seasoned ...read more
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Fall After Newton (1987)
© Videoda
22:45 min.
Narration in EnglishA sweeping look at 11 years of practice of Contact Improvisation by Nancy Stark Smith and initiator, Steve Paxton. The ...read more
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Magnesium (1972)
© Videoda
9:33 min.Document of a dance made by Steve Paxton during a Grand Union residency at Oberlin College, Ohio in January, 1972. ...read more
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Peripheral Vision (1975)
© Videoda
21:05 min.
Narration in EnglishSelections from a Contact Improvisation concert at Firehouse Theater in San Francisco, CA in 1973: “You Come, We’ll Show You ...read more
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Soft Pallet (1973)
© Videoda
17:53 min.Selections from a vintage Contact Improvisation concert in Rome at L’Attico Gallery in 1973.
Performers: Annette LaRoque, David ...read more$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
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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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
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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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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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
Perfect boundAvailable through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research
(deck of cards)Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more
$25new distributor coming
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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
Available through author
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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
Available through HFSbooks
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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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.
Available through uwpress
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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
widely available
-
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
Available through author
-
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
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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
Available through author
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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
Available through Triarchy Press
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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
Available by email
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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
Available through Contredanse
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
-
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
Perfect boundAvailable through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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A Kinesthetic Legacy
The Life and Works of Barbara Clark
revised editionA Kinesthetic Legacy presents the biography and writings of Barbara Clark, who devoted her life to the preservation and creative ...read more
Available through Thinking Body Institute
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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
Available through Penguin...
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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
widely available
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
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On the Edge
Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French
Devoted to improvisation as a performance form, this book consists of 14 interviews with dancers/improvisers whose creative ...read moreAvailable through Contredanse
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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
Available through HFSbooks
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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
Available through circozero
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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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
-
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
Available through UWpress
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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
Available through sixviewpoints
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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
Available through HFSbooks
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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
Available through author
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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
-
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
Available through Books on the Move
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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
Available through Pengiun...
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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
video streaming buy or rent coming soon
-
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
Livestreaming at GO/AT
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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
Available through ZAP
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Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive
Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
Six edited programs in Videoda's Archival Collection of Contact Improvisation track a key period of exploration and discovery through narrated ...read more
Available to stream or download here
-
86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research
(deck of cards)Adapted from Mike Vargas’s article, “Looking at Composition is Like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge: 86 Aspects of Composition,” published ...read more
$25new distributor coming
-
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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
-
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.
Available through uwpress
-
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
widely available
-
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
Available through author
-
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
video streaming buy or rent coming soon
-
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
$21PDF (15 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
$25PDF (43 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
$27PDF (10.9 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
Available through Triarchy Press
-
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
Available by email
-
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
Livestreaming at GO/AT
-
Gravity
In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more
Available through Contredanse
-
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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
-
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
Available through Penguin...
-
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
widely available
-
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
Available through ZAP
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
On the Edge
Dialogues on Dance Improvisation in Performance
Bilingual: English/French
Devoted to improvisation as a performance form, this book consists of 14 interviews with dancers/improvisers whose creative ...read moreAvailable through Contredanse
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
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
Available through UWpress
-
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
Available through sixviewpoints
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
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
Available through author
-
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
-
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
Available through Books on the Move
-
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
Available through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
-
Chute (1979)
© Videoda
9:36 min.
Narration in EnglishDocumentary of the first Contact Improvisation demonstrations in N.Y.C. at the John Weber Gallery in 1972. With narration by originator, ...read more
$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
$50Download (Individuals)add to cartdownload indiv.
$100Institutions : DownloadRequest contract/pricing
-
Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
© Videoda 49:05 min.
Document of the 11th anniversary of Contact Improvisation performance festival at St. Mark’s Church in New York City with seasoned ...read more
$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
-
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
widely available
-
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
Available through author
-
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
video streaming buy or rent coming soon
-
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
$21PDF (15 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
$25PDF (43 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
$27PDF (10.9 MB) -
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
Order Print edition through Contredanse
-
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
Available through author
-
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
Available by email
-
Fall After Newton (1987)
© Videoda
22:45 min.
Narration in EnglishA sweeping look at 11 years of practice of Contact Improvisation by Nancy Stark Smith and initiator, Steve Paxton. The ...read more
$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
$50Download (Individuals)add to cartdownload indiv.
$100Institutions : DownloadRequest contract/pricing
-
Gravity
In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more
Available through Contredanse
-
Magnesium (1972)
© Videoda
9:33 min.Document of a dance made by Steve Paxton during a Grand Union residency at Oberlin College, Ohio in January, 1972. ...read more
$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
$50Download (Individuals)add to cartdownload indiv.
$100Institutions : DownloadRequest contract/pricing
-
Peripheral Vision (1975)
© Videoda
21:05 min.
Narration in EnglishSelections from a Contact Improvisation concert at Firehouse Theater in San Francisco, CA in 1973: “You Come, We’ll Show You ...read more
$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
$50Download (Individuals)add to cartdownload indiv.
$100Institutions : DownloadRequest contract/pricing
-
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
Available through circozero
-
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
Available through UWpress
-
Soft Pallet (1973)
© Videoda
17:53 min.Selections from a vintage Contact Improvisation concert in Rome at L’Attico Gallery in 1973.
Performers: Annette LaRoque, David ...read more$8Rent (48 hours)add to cartrent
$25Lease (3 years)add to cartlease
$50Download (Individuals)add to cartdownload indiv.
$100Institutions : DownloadRequest contract/pricing
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive
Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
Six edited programs in Videoda's Archival Collection of Contact Improvisation track a key period of exploration and discovery through narrated ...read more
Available to stream or download here
-
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
Available through author
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
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
Available through HFSbooks
-
Gravity
In this elegant pocket-sized book, dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. In pithy prose essays, ...read more
Available through Contredanse
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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
Perfect boundAvailable through Wesleyan Univ. Press - HFS
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A Kinesthetic Legacy
The Life and Works of Barbara Clark
revised editionA Kinesthetic Legacy presents the biography and writings of Barbara Clark, who devoted her life to the preservation and creative ...read more
Available through Thinking Body Institute
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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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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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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 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. 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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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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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
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Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive
Collected Edition 1972 – 1983
Six edited programs in Videoda's Archival Collection of Contact Improvisation track a key period of exploration and discovery through narrated ...read more
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