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One History of Contact Improvisation

a talk given by Nancy Stark Smith at the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany, 2005

by Nancy Stark Smith
There are many histories of the same moment. Maybe from this we can gain perspective. So this, naturally, is my version of the story.
Contact improvisation was created by an American dancer and choreographer named Steve Paxton in 1972. continue... ...continue

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