Contact improvisation isn’t just dance without choreography, it’s life — a microcosm illuminating a way to be in the world. “Who you are as a person is who you are as an improviser,” says Nancy Stark ...

Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Center Dance, in partnership with members of the Western New York dance community, are addressing the controversies surrounding touch through a unique and niche dance form this March. “Mission ...

Developed in the 1970s, contact — as it’s affectionately called by aficionados — shares characteristics with martial arts, yoga and even ballroom dance. But unlike the latter, there’s no set leader or ...

The wcciJAM is a Contact Improvisation dance festival created by dancers, for dancers. The teachers and organizers work together to create a unique program of practice, research, play and peer ...

Three days of contact improvisation classes and jams from Saturday May 16 through to Victoria Day Monday. A contact jam is a time and place to improvise movement in contact with oneself, others, and ...

Contact Improv is hard to explain to someone who has never done it, but let me try. Contact Improv: Improvisational dance with a partner. You aren't supposed to use a word in its definition, are you?

She helped develop and popularize a dance form that is both artful and athletic, focusing on touch, gravity and weight sharing. By Gia Kourlas Nancy Stark Smith didn’t care much for dance as a child ...

Colours in Contact jams and classes offer a beautiful opportunity to explore passion, inspiration, creativity, love, and respect in order to create deeply attuned dances between participants. Learn ...