Exploring Contact Improvisation
A touch-based improvisational dance form
Contact Improvisation (CI) is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve
Paxton. The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and
their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.
— CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979 ~ learn more about CI with Contact Quarterly
