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Roles

Supports

Lifts

Sliding

Falling

Falling together and apart

Counterbalance

Centring

Efforts

Release

motion--gravity, momentum

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On completion of this unit a learner should:

1 Be able to demonstrate awareness of movement flow and underpinning principles of contact 2 Be able to explore contact with stimuli and with other dancers 3 Be able to improvise using the dynamics in performance.

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Research surrounding Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue: Itay Yatuv at TEDxBGU

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Research surrounding Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue: Itay Yatuv at TEDxBGU

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Published on Jun 25, 2012

Artistic director of the Hakvutza Dance School in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Itay has been practicing and internationally teaching Contact Improvisation for over 10 years to professional and amateur dancers. He trained as a contemporary dancer in New York, Italy and Israel. Choreographing independently, Itay has lead many international projects of improvisational performances.

For the last 3 years, Itay has been investigating the connection between the principles used in Contact Improvisation and infant development, both motor skills and in the way an infant physically communicates with his or her parent.

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Contact Improvisation: An Intuitive, Non-Verbal and Intimate Dialogue: Itay Yatuv at TEDxBGU

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Sophie & Itay Yatuv (Contact Improvisation Festival: Ibiza)... filmed by Aaron Brando

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Steve Paxton- Founder/Creator of Contact Improvisation

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Steve Paxton at CI36, Juniata College, discussing Magnesium and how he came to create it.

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Jasmin Vardimon Company use CI in Performance. We will be watching a DVD extract of the show below for which this Education Pack corresponds

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Lorna Marshall in 'The Body Speaks' discusses what stops us moving, playing and exploring in the studio. We will be reading this in class 1 and identifying what we are inhibited by

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Its important that you have an awareness of the background surrounding Contact Improvisation. This is a brief guide for you to use in terms of practitioners that you should know