So Here You Are, Against All Obstacles...
A talk given at Culturgest in Lisbon, 2019
by Steve Paxton
Composition
a comment from Steve Paxton
a Facebook thread from the CI Facilitators
Worldwide Network & Discussion Group
initiated by Colleen Bartley
The Politics of Mutuality
a conversation with Steve Paxton at the kitchen table
with Nancy Stark Smith for CQ
Philosophical Glimpses: -Scapes
by Erin Manning and Steve Paxton
Philosophical Glimpses: Standing
by Steve Paxton, Elizabeth A. Behnke, and Daniel Lepkoff
Steve Paxton talks about how The Stand relates to stage fright and entrainment in Contact Improvisation
edited by Karen Nelson
GIFTS
Cage, Cunningham, and the modern dance mutants
by Steve Paxton
CQ chapbook 2: The Goldberg Observations
from the working diary of Jurij Konjar
As far as we can see...
Merce Cunningham, 16 April 1919 - 26 July 2009
by Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton's Talk at CI36 (transcript)
re: the conception of Contact Improvisation and his current work, Material for the Spine, June, 2008
Transitions:Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:Fireside Chat
given at CI25, June 4, 1997 (excerpts)
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the Breitenbush Jam
interview with Alito Alessi, Ray Chung, K.J. Holmes, Daniel Lepkoff, Karen Nelson, Steve Paxton, Scott Smith, and Nancy Stark Smith
by Kristin Horrigan
What Authority?
by Steve Paxton
Improvisation Issue?
by Steve Paxton
Dance: Steve Paxton’s Improvisations
by Jack Anderson
Is Contact Improvisation a Performance Art?, 1977
by Steve Paxton
Dartington March, 1976
by Steve Paxton
Editor Note:For Thirty Years
by Steve Paxton
Between the Lines
an email volley re: presenting improvisation
by Daniel Lepkoff and Steve Paxton
Nothing Comes to Mind:
mindscapes and the space; an amble
by Steve Paxton
The History and Future of Dance Improvisation
a talk given at the Art of Movement Festival in Russia
by Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton – Extraordinarily Ordinary and Ordinarily Extraordinary
performance review
by Daniel Lepkoff
Still Moving:...To Touch
by Steve Paxton
The Sex Issue
dialogue about sex & contact improvisation
by Lori B. and Steve Paxton
Letter to Trisha
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:The Man in the Box
interview with Steve Paxton at Breitenbush Conference ’94
by Jess Curtis
Shelf Life:Two Book Reviews:
Margaret Hupp Ramsay’s The Grand Union (1970-1976)
Novack’s Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:Drafting Interior Techniques
by Steve Paxton
Jumping Paradigms
response to Aat Hougee
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:A Common Sense
a report on Touchdown Dance, England
by Anne Kilcoyne and Steve Paxton
3 Days
DanceAbility workshop, 1991
by Steve Paxton
Helix
nine rolls
by Steve Paxton
1966 List
by Steve Paxton
T.M.O.M.
a book review of The Moment of Movement by Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:Hier-Visibility
by Steve Paxton
Trance Script
Judson Project interview with Steve Paxton
by Nancy Stark Smith
Still Moving:“Fall After Newton"
videotape transcript
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:A Note to Canadian Critics
by Steve Paxton
Improvisation Is ...
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:The Small Dance, The Stand
transcription of 1977 classes
by Steve Paxton
Still Moving:Solo Dancing
by Steve Paxton
Letter to Elizabeth Zimmer
response to Zimmer's review
by Steve Paxton
The Studies Project
discussion transcript
with Bill. T. Jones, Steve Paxton, Mary Overlie (moderator)
Still Moving:Still Moving
by Steve Paxton
Performance and the Reconstruction of Judson
A comparative view
by Steve Paxton
Contact Improvisation's 10th Anniversary Party
Gifts from All Over
by Paul Langland, Grant Pedlar, Jac Jaeger, Steve Paxton, and Remy Charlip
Chute Transcript
videotape soundtrack
by Steve Paxton
Dance: Steve Paxton’s Improvisations (review)
by Jack Anderson
Q&A with Steve Paxton
by Steve Paxton
Back Issues:Bonnie and David
by Steve Paxton
Cross Currents:Report on the ADG Conference on Improvisation
Dance As Art Sport, Minneapolis, June 1980
by Steve Paxton
Aikido Information Indeed
by Steve Paxton
Aikido Roll
by Steve Paxton
Round Up:Tape Review
of Dances by Heart by Lisa Nelson & Nancy Stark Smith
by Steve Paxton
A Definition
by Steve Paxton
Twice Now
by Steve Paxton
Teacher Teaching
by Steve Paxton
The Small Dance
an interview with Steve Paxton
by Elizabeth Zimmer
Round Up:Ruby
by Steve Paxton
Cross Currents:Materials of Dance as a Creative Art Activity by Barbara Mettler
a book review
by Steve Paxton
Timely (poem)
by Steve Paxton
Keeping in Touch
Notes from Alotta Different Places
by Andrew Harwood, Scott Jones, Danny Lepkoff, Nita Little, Mangrove, Marje McKenna, Steve Paxton, ReUnion, Christie Svane, and Jerry Zientara
Solo Dancing
by Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton and Dancers
(SoHo Weekly News, N.Y.C., 4/75)
by Kathy Duncan
Trisha Brown Company, Inc., at the Palindrome
by Steve Paxton
Symbols for What We Do
by Steve Paxton
Now and Then
by Steve Paxton
Hatha Yoga
by Steve Paxton
One Woman’s Opinion
Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith in D.C.
(from Unicorn Times)
by Florence C. Pennella
A Model for Formulae
by Steve Paxton
Letter to Newsletter
by Steve Paxton
A Matter of Delicacy
by Steve Paxton
Teacher Teaching
by Steve Paxton
Mangrove
April 1976, Margaret Jenkins Studio, SF
a review-essay
by Steve Paxton
Jam at Cat’s Paw Palace for Performing Arts
by Steve Paxton
Dartington March
by Steve Paxton
Editors' Letters
by Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton
Letters
from Steve Paxton, David Woodberry, and Nita Little
Letters
from Janet Lott and Steve Paxton
A Question from CQ, and a Round of Responses
by Nancy Stark Smith, Keith Hennessy, Ann Cooper Albright, Geneviève Cron-Riger, Daniela Schwartz, Kent Alexander, Zach Arfa, Taja Will, Kathleen Rea, and mayfield brooks
Steve Paxton talks about how the Stand relates to stage fright and entrainment in Contact Improvisation
edited by Karen Nelson
Interview by Sílvia Pinto Coelho
conducted and transcribed by Cheryl Pallant
Disorientation and the Rehearsal of Care in mayfield brooks’ Improvising While Black
by Zena Bibler
A talk by Steve Paxton
at Culturgest in Lisbon, 2019
a conversation with Steve Paxton at the kitchen table
with Nancy Stark Smith, for CQ
email conversation between Romain Bigé
and Steve Paxton
Steps toward an aesthetics of weight in Contact Improvisation
by Romain Bigé
Encuentro Internacional de Maestros de Contacto Improvisación en Latinoamérica
First Edition, 21–27 February 2011
by Eliana Bonard and Camillo Vacalebre
A provocative talk by economist CI dancer Christian Felber, at the contactfestival freiburg 2014
with responses by Adrian Russi, Eckhard Müller, Sara Shelton Mann, Steve Paxton, Daniel Lepkoff, Nita Little, and Nancy Stark Smith
curated by Daniela Schwartz
Learning Steve Paxton's Early Works
by Jody Oberfelder
a talk with Simone Forti
by Patrick Steffens
A Personal Journey toward a Saner Life
by Tal Shibi
an interview with Ming-shen Ku
by Christopher Chu
Panel Discussion at Tanzfabrik, Berlin
June 29, 2007
organized by Jess Curtis and Karen Schaffman
with Jess, Stephanie Maher, Sara Shelton Mann, Friederike Plafki, Peter Pleyer, and Meg Stuart
One History of Contact Improvisation
a talk given by Nancy Stark Smith at the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany, 2005
by Nancy Stark Smith
"40 ans et plus", l’émergence du Contact Improvisation en France de 1978-1985
December 2020
report by Karen Nelson
Reflections on the merging of Tango Argentino and Contact Improvisation in Dis/tr-action by and with Adriana Pegorer and Caroline Waters
by Adriana Pegorer
opportunities in a time of social distancing
by Daniel Lepkoff
Panel Discussion with
Richard Kim (US), Benjamin Pierce (US), Cléia Plácido (Brazil), Heike Kuhlmann (Germany), Erik Mägi (Sweden); Bel Tornaghi and Pedro Penuela (translators)
A Panel Discussion with
Nita Little, Keith Hennessy, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Ann Cooper Albright
by Fred Holland and Ishmael Houston-Jones
Rehearsing for Contact Improvisation in 1975
by Daniel Lepkoff
at the 1st Indian Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (ICITE)
at the 1st Indian Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (ICITE)
A Panel Conversation
with, Katelyn Stiles, Margit Galanter, and Kevin O’Connor
The Growing CI Community in India
by Ray Chung and Erica Kaufman
Choreographing CI
by Defne Erdur
Not If We Want to Create Safer Brave Contact Improvisation Spaces
by Michele Beaulieux
Excerpts from Nita Little’s Conversation with Peter Pleyer on CI and Politics at Contactfestival Freiburg 2013
by Alexandra Nikolaeva and Nita Little
A Fundraiser for Chisenhale Dance Space
by Colleen Bartley
Nita Little talks about her PhD and the birth of ISSC
by Nita Little, with Colleen Bartley
Independent CI classes in a UK university
by Anne-Gaëlle Thiriot, with Jodie Granger and William Lang
A Question from CQ,
and a Round of Responses
by Asaf Bachrach, Colleen Bartley, Richard Kim, Ming-Shen Ku, Sasha Lasdon, Yeong Wen Lee, Angelique van Niekerk, Steve Paxton, Heike Pourian, Radical Contact
The Force of Breath in Effecting Social Change and Revolution
by Katja Kolcio
by Maura Elcaras Falkenberg and Sara Pozzoli
New Approaches to Somatic Practice from Contact Improvisation
by Patrick Collaud and Brigitta Renggli
our dance research project
part I
by Alessandro Franceschelli
“Expansion”
by Sarka Prikrylova
Renewed Measure
by Karen Nelson
The first CI Exchange in Paris
by Romain Bigé
You Can Bring the Film to Your Local Theater in 2016
by Sanford Lewis
Online Forums and an Informative Blog
by Colleen Bartley CQ NL coeditor
Reflections on the Longest, Continuously Running Contact Jam in the World
by Pam Johnson
Reflections on the 3-Week January Workshop with Nancy Stark Smith
by Frédéric Holzwarth
The End of an Era
by Noel Perkins
Berkeley, CA
by Miriam Wolodarski
Cornwall, UK
by Malaika and Richard Sarco-Thomas
CI Festival on the Road
1st International Festival of Contact Improvisation & Performance on the Roads of Crimea, Ukraine
by Antony “Aughar” Matsepa
Breitenbush Hotsprings Retreat Center, near Detroit, Oregon
by Karen Nelson, Vashon Island, Washington
by Arye Bursztyn / Danya Elraz