Resistance and support : contact improvisation @ 50 / edited by Ann Cooper Albright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albright, Ann Cooper, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation in dance--History.

Improvisation in dance.

Dance--Social aspects.

Dance.

Dance--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Resistance and Support' is a ground-breaking anthology that collects 20 original writings that elucidate critically important somatic and political perspectives on Contact Improvisation (CI). This form of partner dancing that was started in the United States in 1972, has spread into a vibrant global community in the 21st century. 'Resistance and Support' is edited and includes an introduction by veteran CI practitioner and dance studies scholar Ann Cooper Albright.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Introduction

Resistance as Support

References

Productive Tensions

1 Mindfully Rocking and Rolling: Contact Improvisation as a Feminist Practice in the Turbulent 1970s

Laying the Ground

Discovering Artivism

First Contact in Minnesota

Introducing Improvisation en Contact in Québec

The Catpoto Dance Collective (1977-1980)

The Woman Question: Each Man for Herself (1983-1985) with Daniel Godbout

Rocking and Rolling, Ever More Mindfully: Contact Improvising in the Contentious 2020s

Coda: Moving Forward, Keep on Dancing

2 Getting There from Here: A Road Map for Safer Brave Open Jams

Here and There in CI

Here: Current Contact Improvisation Culture

Rape Culture

Stated Value of Individual Responsibility

The Tyranny of Structurelessness in Community Practices

Accountability of the Harmed

There: Safer Brave Space

Consent Culture

The Beaulieu Test

The Vision: Safer Brave Space

The Beaulieu Assessment

Stated Values of Group Care

Democratic Community Practices

Community Accountability Commitments

From Here to There

Going Back in Order to Get There

3 Gender, Power, and Equity in Contact Improvisation

Gender and Other Definitions

Situating CI's Relationship to Gender

Gender Habits Limit CI Technique

Gendered Dynamics Limit Others' Dancing

Objectification and Sexual Predation in CI

Gender, Self-Protection, and Access in CI

Conclusion: Carving New Pathways

4 Not: Not Contact Improvisation

You are Y'r Welcome

What Type of Party Is This?

No but Really, What Type of Party Is This?

Some Thoughts (Sauce) Still Here

Y'r Practice.

The C.C.A.A.T. Breakdown

The Eight Limbs of NCI

The Take Away: NCI Strategies and Beyond

Conclusion The Future of CI

References, Things to Catalyze Thoughts, Future Dance Partners

5 Doing It Wrong: Contact's Counter Countercultures

Surviving This Crisis, and the Next

The Resistance of the Object

White Histories of Contact Improvisation

Poetics of Refusal

On Being Included

Somactivism and Racial Haptics

6 Tracing the Natural Body for More Inclusive and Equitable CI Futures

What Is the Natural Body?

Early Twentieth Century Ideas about the Body

Modern Dance Legacies

The Primitive Body

Legacies from Somatics

Early Contact Improvisation

Physical, Aesthetic, and Political Freedoms of the Neutral Body

Training the Neutral Body

Why Is the Neutral Body White, Queerblind, and Modest?

Colorblindess, Queerblindness, Genderblindness

Late Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First-Century Natural/Neutral Bodies

Where Are We Now?

7 Underscoring Nancy Stark Smith's Legacy: Definitions and Disruptions

Underscore +/− at the Blue Guitar: Dropping the Bone

Saturday Night Underscore at Critical Mass: CI @ 50, July 2022

May 2022 Underscore at Oberlin College: A Time to Honor Nancy Stark Smith

Ongoing Questions

Responsive Touch

8 The Small Dances of Listening

Standing and Listening

Gravity and the Ear of the Body

Self-Organizing Perceptual Systems

Listening in Contact

Principle 1: Listening as Actively Receiving Information

Discomfort-Disorientation-Safety and the Influences of Information

Listening On-Balance and Off-Balance

Principle 2: Attention as a Conduit Delivering Information into Awareness

Attention, Intention, and Awareness

Complex Systems and Self-Organization.

Principle 3: Listening Implies a Biological Response to What Is Received

Integration

What Causes you to Listen?

9 Listening Touch

Models and Foundations of Listening

The Politics of Listening

Listening on the Earth

Listening in Nature

Listening with Dancers

Listening in Action

Appendix: Guidelines for Practice

10 Therapeutic Applications of Contact Improvisation

Our Stories

The Value of CI-Informed Touch

Parallels between Mindfulness and CI

Applications of Touch

Restorative Contact (Gabrielle Revlock)

Conclusion

11 XCI: Intimacy in Contact Improvisation

The Quest for Intimacy

XCI as Practice as Research

XCI and the CI Duet

XCI in the Space-in-Between of Improvisation

CI and Sex

CI and Gender (Somatic) Performativity

Conclusion about Our Research Practice of XCI

Co-Sensing Queer Non-Intentionality in XCI

12 Rolling and Knowing: Reflections on the Endurance of the CI Event

Intensity: Individuality and Knowledge

Rolling and Sensation: Smooth and Striated Space

Smooth Geometries: Spherical and Spiral Spaces

Conclusion: Rolling with Language

13 Something We Touch or That Touches Us: A Newcomer Locating Themselves in Contact

14 The Religious Function of Contact Improvisation

Aikido and Invisible Connection

Quakerism and Group Listening

Zen Practice/Realization

Dance Improvisation as Embodiment of Mystery

Local Communities/Global Contexts

15 Resistances and Horizons: EPIICO, Community, and Self-Organization

About our Collective: EPIICO

The Appropriation of the Practice

On the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Seventh Gathering of CI in Mexico

A Politics of Our Own.

Ideas, Philosophies, and Thoughts That Accompany and Inspire Our Manner of Doing Contact Improvisation

Conclusions and Final Questions

16 Making Contact: Practicing and Creating Spaces of Contact Improvisation in India

The Diverse Context of India and the Introduction of Contact Improvisation

The Beginnings of the Indian Contact Improvisation Community

Introducing and Working with Touch: The Question of Boundaries

Who Joins Contact Improvisation

Teacher-Student Power Dynamics

The Practice of Listening to the Space

17 Contact Improvisation in China and Taiwan

Transcript of the Roundtable "Contact Improvisation in China and Taiwan"

18 Deviant Bodies: Improvising Survival in Brazil

19 Queering Contact Improvisation with Sara Ahmed (and the Wheelchair)

Contact Improvisation: Disorientation and Orientation between Bodies

What Does It Mean to Queer Contact Improvisation?

Following as a Form of Body Extension

A Wheelchair in Contact Improvisation

Gathering Bodies and Objects

20 Intensive Curiosity: A Dialogue about Teaching CI

CI Teaching is a Continual Balancing between Showing and Telling and Instigating

CI Is Research: CI Teaching Is Teaching Practice as Research

CI Teachers Are Exploring Their Own Curiosity through Teaching

CI Uses Words to Push Practice, and Practice to Push Language

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197776308

0197776302

9780197776285

0197776280

OCLC:

1452235432