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There are an ever-increasing number of CI events, resources, and websites. Below are a few recommendations to get you started.

To locate opportunities to study and practice Contact Improvisation, go to CQ's international CI Contacts List and contact someone in your area.

Feel free to contact us directly for more information and resources at:

tel. (413) 586-1181; fax (413) 586-9055
P.O. Box 603
Northampton, MA 01061
U.S.A.

• Harvest: One History of Contact Improvisation
  a talk given by Nancy Stark Smith at the 2005 Freiburg Contact Festival
  Contact Quarterly Volume 31 No. 2, Summer/Fall 2006
• Steve Paxton’s Talk at CI36 (excerpts)
  June 2008
  Contact Quarterly Volume 34 No. 1, Winter/Spring 2009
• Contact Improvisation: A Question by Daniel Lepkoff, April 2011, CQ Vol. 36 No. 1 Annual 2011

• Contact Quarterly, a vehicle for moving ideas
  journal of dance and improvisation since 1975. Much material about CI as well as related dance and somatic work.
• Proximity
  Australian magazine devoted to new dance/movement and improvisation practice. It has a focus on Contact Improvisation, movement improvisation, and other related forms.

• CQ's CI Sourcebook, Vol. 1: 1975–1992
• CQ's CI Sourcebook, Vol. 2: 1993–2007
• Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas
  by David Koteen and Nancy Stark Smith with a Backwords by Steve Paxton
• Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
  by Cheryl Pallant
• Contact Improvisation: Moving, Dancing, Interaction
  by Thomas Kaltenbrunner, (original German edition; English translation edition)
• Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering: A Manual for Teaching and Learning Movement
  by Annie Brook
• Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture
  by Cynthia J. Novack
• Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader
  edited by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere
• The Art of Waiting: Essays on Contact Improvisation
  by Martin Keogh

• Historical documentaries and performances of CI (1972–1983), DVDs produced by Videoda
• DanceAbility (CI & mixed-ability dance): www.danceability.com
• Touchdown Dance (CI for dancers with and without visual impairment): www.touchdowndance.co.uk
• Momentum, a commentaried video archive of CI: www.contactimprovisation.ch
• The Poetics of Touch: Nancy Stark Smith, a pathway into contact improvisation, a film by Sara Pozzoli and Germana Siciliani, with Italian subtitles:

• proximity.slightly.net Proximity magazine. Australian online magazine devoted to new dance/movement and improvisation practice, including contact improvisation.
• www.contactimprov.net Global database of CI activities: free listing of ongoing classes, jams, teachers, organizations, and special events (retreat jams, festivals, conferences).
• www.contactimprovisation.ch European CI events, information, documentation, teachers, and links; free listings; in German.
• www.contactencyclopedia.net An open source database for CI: an archive, encyclopedia, container, meeting ground.
• www.contactimprov.com Moti Mark Zemelman's CI site with paid event listings, CI teachers, jam map, gallery, store with Moti's CDs, photos, and other materials.
• www.ecite.org Information about past and present European CI Teachers Exchange (ECITE) events, with archive of materials.
• www.contactfestival.de Contact Festival Freiburg (Germany) website; with information on the upcoming festival, pre- and post-festival workshops, info about CI, an archive, photos, and links; in German and English.