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Videoda Contact Improvisation
DVD #3 Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
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2 Creative Decks of Cards
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Terpsichore's Deck by Eliza Larson 86 Aspects of Composition by Mike Vargas |
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CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebooks, 3-Volume Set
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CQ chapbook Set
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newDANCEmedia The Goldberg Observations The Anatomy of Center Emergent Improvisation Passing For Dance Forgetful Snow |
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Complete Reprint Set
6 articles by pioneering voices
from CQ back issues: Writings by Remy Charlip, Richard Bull, Andre Bernard, Frances Becker, and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen |
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CQ Back Issue Mini-Collection:
STEVE PAXTON 6 issues featuring writings by innovative dance artist Steve Paxton
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CQ Back Issue Mini-Collection: SIMONE FORTI
6 issues featuring writings by renowned dance artist Simone Forti
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CQ chapbook Set
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newDANCEmedia The Goldberg Observations The Anatomy of Center Emergent Improvisation Passing For Dance Forgetful Snow |
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Passing For Dance, A HIJACK READER
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Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder
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Emergent Improvisation
by Susan Sgorbati with Emily Climer & Marie Lynn Haas
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The Anatomy of Center
by Nancy Topf, with Barbara Clark, Marsha Paludan, Melinda Buckwalter, and Jen Harmon
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The Goldberg Observations
from the working diary of Jurij Konjar, with Steve Paxton, Martin Kilvady, Lisa Nelson, Natasa Zavolovsek, and Sandra Noeth
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Hélène Lesterlin, Jonah Bokaer/Nancy Wozny, Scott deLahunta, Dawn Stoppiello/Troika Ranch, William Forsythe/Marlon Barrios Solano
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a tool for open-ended creative research
(deck of cards) by Mike Vargas
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A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
by Andrea Olsen in collaboration with Caryn McHose
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The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas
by David Koteen and Nancy Stark Smith
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![]() Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering
A Manual for Teaching & Learning Movement
by Annie Brook
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Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal
1975-1992
Eds: Nancy Stark Smith & Lisa Nelson
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Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal
1992-2007
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Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal 2008–2018
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Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement
Editors: Katya Bloom, Margit Galanter, and Sandra Reeve
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Dancing Contact Improvisation in College
edited by Ann Cooper Albright, et al.
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An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse
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A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
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A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
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The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®
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la vie (DVD-Rom) by Baptiste Andrien, Florence Corin / Contredanse,
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Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year
a documentary film by Nathan Wagoner
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DVD #3 Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
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Dance and Body-Mind Centering®
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Terpsichore's Deck
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In celebration of a spirited run of 45 years of print issues, CQ offers this elegant calendar in a limited edition. The calendar features images by photographer Bill Arnold who lived and travelled with Nancy Stark Smith, CQ cofounder and coeditor/codirector, from 1984 to 1990. Bill’s photos capture numerous gatherings, performances, and workshops with CQ contributing artists including Alito Alessi, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Remy Charlip, Yoshiko Chuma, Jim Davis, Pauline de Groot, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Julyen Hamilton, Andrew Harwood, Daniel Lepkoff, Nina Martin, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith,
Kei Takei, and Ruth Zaporah.
"Improvisation transfixes me. But to make a picture, I must, for a portion of a second, leap ahead of the dance to open the shutter when the dancers arrive. The opportunity to have a front row seat for great improvisation was thrilling." —Bill Arnold
Some of the calendar photographs have become classics—widely appearing in books, journals, and promotional materials—while others have never previously been published. The images chronicle moments in western Massachusetts, Holland, Colorado, and New York during a fertile period of development for CQ, as well as for the community of artists and practices which have nurtured and been nurtured by the journal. The calendar closes with a sea of over 1,000 names, listing all of the staff, board members, and print journal authors who have contributed to CQ’s life and publications from 1975 to the present.
Concept, Design, & Production: Nancy Stark Smith, Sofia Engelman
Design: Jim Madden
2020. Contact Quarterly.
Limited edition. Saddle stitched.
28 pp. 8½ x 11.
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Simone Forti in Sleepwalkers (1968/2010), Los Angeles, September 2010. Photo © Jason Underhill.
This selection of six Contact Quarterly back issues, dating between 1984 and 2012, contains eight major articles by and about renowned dance artist, writer, and CQ contributing editor Simone Forti.
Through essays and drawings, in-depth interviews, and first-hand articles about Forti’s practices and teaching methods, readers can trace three decades of her thought and evolution as an artist. Forti’s voice, written from the body, is singular in its clarity and full of surprise.
In addition to Forti's writings, each journal contains myriad writings from others working in the field at that time.

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LIST OF ARTICLES:
[click on volume #s to see full contents of each issue]
Vol. 9.3 (Fall 1984):
“Full Moves: Thoughts on Dance Behavior” by Simone Forti [7 pgs]
“Movement Research, Inc. and the workshop process of Mary Overlie, Simone Forti, and Ping Chong” by Laurie Lassiter [7 pgs]
Vol. 10.3 (Fall 1985):
“Spring: interview with Simone Forti" by Cate Miodini [6 pgs]
Vol. 19.1 (W/S 1994):
“Thoughts on To Be Continued, a sketch of a dance/narrative process” by Simone Forti [9 pgs]
Vol. 26.1 (W/S 2001):
“CI at World Tai Chi Day” by Simone Forti [2 pgs]
“Hearing/Miraculously/Structure: an apprenticeship with Simone Forti in Logomotion” by Carmela Hermann [11 pgs]
Vol. 26.2 (S/F 2001): “Animate Dancing: a practice in dance improvisation” by Simone Forti [8 pgs]
Vol. 37.1 ( W/S 2012):
“Forti On All Fours: a talk with Simone Forti” by Patrick Steffen [6 pgs]
Simone Forti is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. She was a pivotal figure in the Judson Dance Theater community, which revolutionized dance in the 1960s and ‘70s. Over the years, her work has evolved though various approaches: early minimalist dance-constructions, animal movement studies, news animations, land portraits, and, currently, Logomotion—an improvisational dance narrative form in which movement and language spontaneously weave together to explore thoughts and feelings about the world. She performs and teaches worldwide. Forti is the author of Handbook in Motion (1974, 1980), Oh, Tongue (2003), and Unbuttoned Sleeves (2006). She began publishing writings in CQ in 1980 and a full listing of her articles can be found by entering her name in Search.

Steve Paxton in video still from DVD-rom Material for the Spine – A Movement Study, produced by Contredanse, Brussels.
This selection of six Contact Quarterly back issues features writings by innovative dance artist Steve Paxton as well as performance reviews of Paxton’s solo work. Through a voice that is singularly clear, humorous, and ever provocative, in essays, interviews, images, and letters that span 1975 to 2015, Paxton speaks to a wide range of subjects including Contact Improvisation core principles and practices, performance and choreography, perception and sensation.
In addition to the Paxton articles, this collection of journals is chock full of writings, photos, and drawings by vital dance artists and movement practitioners such as: Alito Alessi, Melinda Buckwalter, Kent De Spain, Irene Dowd, devynn emory, Frey Faust, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Dieter Heitkamp, Paula Josa-Jones, Deborah Jowitt, Eva Karczag, Martin Keogh, Ralph Lemon, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Nancy Stark Smith, Nancy Topf, Mike Vargas, Ruth Zaporah, and more.

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LIST OF ARTICLES:
all articles are by Steve Paxton unless otherwise noted
[click on volume #s to see full contents of each issue]
Vol. 16.3 (Fall 1991)
“Helix – Nine Rolls” (6 pgs)
Vol. 20.1 (Winter/Spring 1995)
“Letter to Trisha” (2 pgs)
“The Man in the Box” (2 pgs)
Vol. 26.1 (Winter/Spring 2001)
“Steve Paxton: Extraordinarily Ordinary and Ordinarily Extraordinary”
a performance review by Daniel Lepkoff
with side notes by Paxton (8 pgs)
Vol. 26.2 (Summer/Fall 2001)
“The History and Future of Dance Improvisation” (2 pgs)
Vol. 30.1 (Winter/Spring 2005) CQ: The Early Years 1975-1987
Editor note: “For thirty years” (1 pg)
“Dartington March” (1 pg)
“Is Contact Improvisation a Performance Art?” (1 pg)
“Steve Paxton’s Improvisations” by Jack Anderson (1 pg)
Letters to CQ: “Improvisation Issue?” “What Authority?” (2 pgs)
Vol. 40.1 (Winter/Spring 2015)
“Gifts: Cage, Cunningham, and the Modern Dance Mutants” (3 pgs)
“Why Standing? Steve Paxton talks about how the Stand relates to Stage Fright and Entrainment in Contact Improvisation” (4 pgs)
Steve Paxton has researched the fiction of cultured dance and the "truth" of improvisation for half a century. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, he began training as a gymnast, studied a variety of modern forms (Graham, Limon, and ballet), and Aikido, yoga, and Tai Chi Chuan. He performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1960-64, and was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater of the 1960s, the Grand Union of the 1970s, and Touchdown Dance (for the visually impaired, UK) in the '80s. In 1972, he instigated Contact Improvisation, which continues today as an international network of dancers who convene to practice and who publish news and research in the dance and improvisation journal, Contact Quarterly, for which he is a contributing editor.
In 1986, he began work on Material for the Spine and produced a DVD-rom on his approach with Contredanse (Brussels) in 2008. Paxton wrote and co-edited three Contact Improvisation documentaries (distributed by Contact Editions): Peripheral Vision 1975, Chute 1979, and Fall After Newton 1987. A film of his solo, The Goldberg Variations improvised by Steve Paxton, was produced by Walter Verdin and KAAI Theater, Belgium, in 1992.
Paxton received the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1994) and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Venice Biennale (2014) and the N.Y. Bessies (2015). His choreography for Quicksand, an opera by Robert Ashley, premiered in N.Y.C. in January, 2016. He lives on a farm in Vermont.
A full listing of Paxton's articles in Contact Quarterly can be found by entering his name in Search.
3-Volume Set

Volume 1 (1975–1992)
Volume 2 (1992–2007)
Volume 3 (2008-2018)
This 3-volume set is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Contact Improvisation (CI). The Sourcebooks offer a multi-voiced history of CI's development through letters, articles, poems, dialogues, reports, photos, and drawings by
a wide range of dedicated practitioners of this unique contemporary dance form.
The best of 43 years of CQ's
CI writings in their original layout.
Volume 1: 260 pp (reg. $26)
Volume 2: 352 pp (reg. $30)
Volume 3: 278 pp (reg. $32)
Contact Editions. 8 1/2 x 11", spiral bound.
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