Contact Quarterly's Webtexts

Webtexts is a new feature on our website. Here you will find a selection of full-length (lightly edited/unabridged) submissions to the paper magazine, unedited transcripts of our current interviews, and timely submissions that we simply had no room to print. For this posting, we have selected writings concerning Contact Improvisation in honor of CI's 36th anniversary year of celebration. Future postings will be selected from the wide variety of movement ideas and subjects that CQ embraces.


Steve Paxton's Talk at CI36
excerpts from his talk given June 13, 2008, at Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA.


Harvest: One History of Contact Improvisation,
a talk given by Nancy Stark Smith at the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany, 2005


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  • Contact Improvisation in South America (in Spanish & English), submitted by Cristina Turdo & translated by Diane McCorkle
  • Explorations within the Small Dance, by Jörg Hassmann
  • 15 Years in Taiwan: an interview with Ming-shen Ku, by Christopher Chu
  • Contact Improvisation and Its Influence on Contemporary Dance Practice, a discussion organized by Jess Curtis and Karen Schaffman
  • Heteronormativity in Contact Improvisation—norms of behavior and bias in sexuality and gender, by Andreas Hechler
  • Ponderosa TanzLand Festival, by Elizabeth Erber
  • The Neuro-politics of Contact Improvisation, by Robert Turner
  • The Potential Space—a CI performance project in Seattle's psychoanalytic community, by Lindsey Rosen