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contact improvisation: a standalone construct

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Postmodern dance

Improvised duet dancing organized around a shared point of contact

Contact improvisation is an improvised dance form, developed in the United States in the 1970s, in which two or more dancers move together through a continuously shifting point of physical contact, sharing weight and following the momentum, rolls, lifts, and falls that arise between their bodies. Rather than following set choreography, dancers attend to touch, gravity, and inertia, letting the exchange of weight determine where the movement goes. Cynthia Novack's Sharing the dance: Contact improvisation and American culture documents the form's origins and its practice as both a technique and a social world. The referent is an improvisational partnering practice defined by the shared, weight-bearing point of contact rather than by a fixed vocabulary of steps.[1]

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Continuous shared-weight movement organized around a point of contact
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Appraised qualitatively through responsiveness to a partner's weight and momentum, fluid give-and-take of support, and sustained contact

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References

  1. Novack, C. J. (1990). Sharing the dance: Contact improvisation and American culture. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299124441

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