A practical and informative introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, and Barbara Clark. Includes historical background, an interview, and transcriptions of two workshops that can be used as self-guided lessons.

Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen describes her innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis, and movement reeducation through her collected articles and interviews from Contact Quarterly, 1980-2007. Thirty-two additional pages with articles on the cell, embryology, and the autonomic nervous system, as well as new photos and illustrations.

This interactive DVD-ROM immerses us in Paxton´s world, to experience the logic and invention at the core of Material for the Spine, a technique evolved from his observation of the spine in the practice of Contact Improvisation. Original audiovisual essays, motion capture sequences, and extracts from lectures, classes, and performances give an overview, the details of the technique, and the exercises and forms that constitute it.

The inside-out of dancer/CQ editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of the dance form Contact Improvisation. Includes Q&As between David and Nancy; photos of dancing & living; Talk Bubbles from friends, colleagues, and family; the Underscore; Nancy's life stories; and more—fourteen years in the making.

A glimpse into Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater™, an improvisational physical theater training and performance method that incorporates embodied movement, vocalization, and speech. Follow sixteen people through a two-week workshop in which improvisers are pushed to the edge of their creativity.

In celebration of Contact Improvisation's 36th anniversary, we release this second volume—a multivoiced history of the dance form's ongoing development, through articles, poems, exercises, writings, photos, and drawings about CI, printed in Contact Quarterly, 1992 through 2007.

Xeroxed articles, essays, drawings, photos, and quotes directly concerning Contact Improvisation, reprinted from Contact Quarterly, 1975 through 1992.

21 essays by prominent practitioners and scholars reflecting the development of improvisation as a compositional and performance mode. Including considerations of contact improvisation, recent innovations in tap dancing, and improvisation in everyday life

An insightful look at the development of Contact Improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.

An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance.

An invaluable historical resource and practical text about Clark, a pioneering thinker in the somatics field. Includes Clark's previously published and unpublished manuals and teaching notes.

An investigation into the life-reflecting process of improvisation. Each chapter, a day in a twenty-day training of Action Theater.

An in-depth and comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark work, with a complete description of the skeletal system.

Thirty-one days of learning sessions bring heightened awareness about each bone and body system as well as providing self-guided studies to activate the learning processes.

A comprehensive guide to the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering®, with concrete and poetic explorations, clear exercises, and extensive photos and drawings.

Integrating environmental science, biology, meditations, and creative expression, Olsen addresses the interconnectedness of body and place through a mixture of reflections, information, exercises, and visual art.

This book presents improvisation as a source of creativity through poetry, prose, patterns on the page, and images.

A close look at the creative process through interviews with artists, journal notes, and drawings. Theoretical discussions and commentary that will spark a student's sense of possibility.

A guide for developing the improvisational mind through a blend of play, fundamental BMC exercises, & CI skills.

A rare document of Bonnie in action as she teaches a workshop in Brussels in May 2004, speaks about the evolution of her work, and demonstrates her theories of weight, time, and space as they apply to dancing.
In English, with live translation into French.

An account of Hay's dance-making process with insights into the creation of her performance practices and the invention of her dance libretto, with comments from contemporary artists.

A devoted practitioner writes about contact improvisation from an experiential viewpoint, discussing its history, fundamentals, and political, social, and cultural ramifications, with questions, exercises, a teacher's sampler.

Essential messages from the early teachings of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen—founder of Body-Mind Centering—collected over seven years of study by the author-photographer. Each thought crystal is accompanied by a photograph.

Two early interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action

Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers.

Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work.

Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation."

Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence.