Contact improvisation
The contact improvisation (Ci) is a technique of dance in which the contact points physique are at the origin of an improvisation and an exploration of the movements. Also called dance-contact , it is a kind of impromptu Danse, one of the best known forms and most characteristic of the postmodern Danse.
The contact improvisation developed with the the United States in the current of the Années 1970, by a group of dancers, carried out by Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith. The first part presented as of the contact improvisation was Magnesium of Steve Paxton, in 1972. Paxton connected with the first performance of Contact Improvisation in the John Weber Gallery with New York. Thereafter, the workshops and the jams made it possible to share various and scattered experiments, having always like central point the capacities of adaptation of the body in situation of support or contact accidental extremes or, while playing with the force of Gravité and the relations between the protagonists. Little by little a common language was formed and a new practice of the movement was born, which use the Danse, the Martial arts, the Gymnastique and the “psychocorporel”.
The priority is given to listening and confidence between the partners: the meetings must be done in all fluidity, the dancers must make available to the movements others, the partners must adapt their mutual movements and displacements.
The contact improvisation can be practiced in duet or more.
Many a contemporary choreographers also uses the contact improvisation like central element or secondary in their parts, then leaving free course to the inventiveness of the dancers.
There exists today an important network of contact improvisation, particularly intense with the the United States, the Canada, in Europe of North, but also in Argentine.
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