PADL West Dance Festival, San Diego, California, Aug 11-15, 2017. A leg and an arm. Photo © Zack King. From CQ CI Newsletter, Winter/Spring 2018, Vol. 43.1
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Dear friends of Contact Quarterly,
CQ is changing!
This year, Contact Quarterly will celebrate 45 years of publishing the artist’s voice—documenting contact improvisation and other emerging improvisational and experimental dance forms, teaching methods, and somatic movement practices.
The next issue—CQ Vol. 45.1, Winter/Spring 2020—will be our 45th anniversary edition!
This special anniversary issue will also be the last issue of the journal in its current print format. We will be shifting our focus to publishing year-round on our online publication—CQ Unbound—with an enlarged and dynamic collective of editors who drawing materials from ever-widening dance communities around the world.
2020 will be a transitional time to reimagine our future and envision novel and sustainable platforms for publishing and for sharing our new digital archive. Meanwhile, we remain devoted to print and will be exploring ways for nonperiodical print matter to be an ongoing part of CQ’s future.
CQ has always been an adventure into the unknown, a dance with survival, an artists’ project, a collaborative body of work that requires regular recommitment. We hope that during this first step of a bold and optimistic transition you’ll stay with us—as subscribers, writers, donors—and be part of this monumental turning.
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