contact improvisation

"At one point I thought we'd do contact improvisation, where they would be throwing themselves against each other," he said.

Contact improvisation: a form developed in 1973, that is now practiced around the world.

It is recognized for its role in supporting the "contact improvisation" dance movement.

Sonde was also engaged in television, film, and dance (particularly contact improvisation).

The heart of the piece is the central love duet, an original variation on the technique known as contact improvisation.

As in a conventional haunted house, screams are heard and heads appear, only here there's also some contact improvisation to watch.

His concern with partnering, especially the mutual support known as contact improvisation, has been seen in small Canadian modern-dance companies.

This study in mutual support owed something to "contact improvisation" techniques but was marked by an original sharp dramatic quality.

While a literature student at Long Island University, she was introduced to the dance form, contact improvisation.

Contact Improvisation, usually done in duets, pulls elements from martial arts, social dance, sports, and child's play.

Empathy provides temporary structuring of movements, which allows contact improvisation to be considered choreography.

Applying her own twist to the movement technique of contact improvisation, she choreographs in a especially smooth idiom.

Lucia Walker is one of the key figures in the development of contact improvisation in this country.

As they slide and roll off each other, they take the technique of contact improvisation into an unsuspected theatrical realm.

The nonlinear choreography, full of staccato phrases, relied on contact improvisation techniques and looked abstract.

As a modern-dance choreographer, he favors a highly physical style of partnering derived from contact improvisation.

By the same token, not all modern choreographers use natural movement or contact improvisation or create their own dance vocabularies.

A group of a more choreographic nature would be more likely to start with improvisation using space and/or contact improvisation.

Steve Paxton developed a form known as contact improvisation, in which people interacting can serve as symbols of social harmony.

Was it the wild plunges into aikido roles on bare hardwood floors in the 70's when we had just discovered contact improvisation?

He is an experimentalist versed in trendy high-flying idioms known as contact improvisation and release techniques.

She danced in the first contact improvisation performances in 1972, and has since worked as a dancer, performer, instructor, author, and organizer.

Contact Improvisation developed out of an exploration of the human body and under the supervision of Paxton.

Today dancers, performers, choreographers, and teachers from around the world have incorporated some form of his teachings of Contact Improvisation into their studies.

Contact improvisation, a movement technique that is related to Chinese martial arts, is not unknown to Miss Marshall, for instance.