Contact Editions publishes, distributes, and promotes books and DVDs on contemporary dance, improvisation, performance, and somatic movement arts. In addition to our own titles, we distribute self-published books by dancer/authors and are the primary U.S. distributor of many dance books published overseas.
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Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser
la vie (DVD-Rom) by Baptiste Andrien, Florence Corin / Contredanse,
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Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD)
Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year
a documentary film by Nathan Wagoner
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
DVD #3 Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
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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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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/Contact Improvisation Sourcebooks, Two-Volume Set
Volume 1 (1975–1992)
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Encounters with Contact
Dancing Contact Improvisation in College
edited by Ann Cooper Albright, et al.
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CQ chapbook 5
Passing For Dance, A HIJACK READER
by HIJACK/
Kristin Van Loon & Arwen Wilder
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CQ chapbook 4
Emergent Improvisation
by Susan Sgorbati with Emily Climer & Marie Lynn Haas
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CQ chapbook 3
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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#6 Growing Up in Public: The Making of an Autobiographical Dance for Lucas Hoving
Conceived and Directed by Remy Charlip
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86 Aspects of Composition
a tool for open-ended creative research
(deck of cards) by Mike Vargas
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BodyStories
A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
by Andrea Olsen in collaboration with Caryn McHose
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Caught Falling
The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas
by David Koteen, 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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CQ/Contact Improvisation 25th Anniversary Sourcebook
Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal
1975-1992
Eds: Nancy Stark Smith & Lisa Nelson
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CQ/Contact Improvisation Sourcebook, Vol. 2
Collected Writings and Graphics from Contact Quarterly dance journal
1992-2007
Eds: Nancy Stark Smith & Lisa Nelson
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Embodied Lives
Reflections on the Influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement
Editors: Katya Bloom, Margit Galanter, and Sandra Reeve
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Encounters with Contact
Dancing Contact Improvisation in College
edited by Ann Cooper Albright, et al.
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Handbook in Motion
An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse
and Its Manifestations in Dance
by Simone Forti
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Ideokinesis
A Creative Approach to Human Movement and Body Alignment
by André Bernard, Wolfgang Steinmüller, and Ursula Stricker
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The Place of Dance
A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
by Andrea Olsen, with Caryn McHose
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Sensing, Feeling, and Action, 3rd ed.
The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering®
by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
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Anna Halprin, Dancing Life/Danser
la vie (DVD-Rom) by Baptiste Andrien, Florence Corin / Contredanse,
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Contact Improvisation at 36 (DVD)
Perspectives on the Dance Form in its 36th Year
a documentary film by Nathan Wagoner
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Videoda Contact Improvisation
DVD #3 Contact at 10th & 2nd (1983)
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Workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (DVD)
Dance and Body-Mind Centering®
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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.
BUY YOUR COLLECTION NOW, as these beautifully illustrated in-print journals will soon become collector's items.
$15 (reg. $30)
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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.
Two-Volume Set
Volume 1 (1975–1992)
Volume 2 (1992–2007)
This two-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 CQ's CI writing (1975–2007) in their original layout. Many photos.
Volume 1: 260 pp (reg. $26)
Volume 2: 352 pp (reg. $30)
Contact Editions
8 1/2 x 11, spiral bound
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Perfect for dancing and
all kinds of floor work.
These hard-to-find, washable,
cotton kneepads are
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For the first time in 20 years, CQ offers brand new t-shirts!
Celebrate Contact Quarterly’s 40th Anniversary in style with a new, limited edition t-shirt! Made of 100% cotton, these Bella + Canvas unisex jersey short-sleeve t-shirts are super soft and feature an original drawing by George Manupelli and design by Ajitate. Perfect to wear both on and off the dance-floor. Support CQ and share the love.
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a choreographic tool
by Eliza Larson
2013. NEW EDITION 2017.
52 cards (plus 3 title cards)
2¾ x 4¾ in.
$24 add to cart
Terpsichore’s Deck (named after the muse of dance) is an instructional and inspirational creative text for novice and advanced dance makers to explore choreographic principles. The cards, numbered 1-52, outline different ideas and elements used in choreography and composition. Through poetic language and provocative questions, each card describes a different aspect of choreography for the user to consider.
The cards can be read sequentially as a way of investigating concepts of choreography from the external to the internal. Starting with broad aspects of creating work (how far are the performers from the audience?), they move through spatial relationships and movement principles: looking at pathways and levels, and culminate with a look at subtle elements of performativity and more esoteric aspects of dance: examining focus, intention, and the internal dialogue of the dancer.
The deck can also be used playfully. Choosing a card at random and using it as compositional or improvisational inspiration may offer insight or illuminate new choreographic possibilities.
Just as there is no right or wrong way to create art and dance, there are no right or wrong answers to the questions posed in the deck. The ideas are designed to lead the user into furthering their own thoughts about creating dance.
Eliza Larson is an independent artist and writer based in Portland, Oregon. She holds an MFA in performance and choreography from Smith College where she was a Gretchen Moran Teaching Fellow in the Five College Dance Department. Eliza's primary research on gender in dance has been presented at several conferences around the country and has been published in Dance and Gender (2017), edited by Doug Risner and Wendy Oliver. Her writing also appears in DanceUSA, Kinebago, the Journal of Dance Education, and Contact Quarterly, a journal devoted to performance and improvisation.
