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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...