Movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen describes her innovative approach to movement analysis and reeducation through her collected articles and interviews from Contact Quarterly, 1980-1992.

PLEASE NOTE: The first edition of this book is sold out, but the second edition is now available for pre-order.

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 Includes Clark's previously published and unpublished manuals and teaching notes.

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

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."