• Contact improvisation is a practice of movement research, where improvisation and momentum, relation with gravity and with others are the main focus....
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  • un-foreseen. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply...
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  • May 1, 2020) was an American dancer and founding participant in contact improvisation. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 11, 1952, Stark Smith was...
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  • movement that improvisation is centred upon the mover is able to explore authentic feelings and inspirations. In Renaissance Italy, improvisation was used...
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  • "contact", or its lack. Part One – "Swinging" "Swinging", set in an 18th-century French forest clearing, can be described as a contact improvisation on...
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    and in 1972 named and began to develop the dance form known as Contact Improvisation, a form of dance that utilizes the physical laws of friction, momentum...
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    organically to the physical sensations generated by their mutual contact. Contact improvisation can be performed for an audience, but is not designed to have...
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  • ballet styles. Floorwork is essential in the postmodern genre of contact improvisation, in which the floor can even be treated as a partner. Floorwork...
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  • The Shake Shimmy Spank Watergate Watusi Bogo lelo dance Contact improvisation Dance improvisation Ecstatic dance Free dance Fusion dance Interpretive dance...
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  • Contact dance may refer to: Contact improvisation, a form of dance improvisation Lap dance, a type of sex work This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, teaching contact improvisation, movement, and dance. She has worked as a choreographer and movement...
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    The first act of the ballet Contact: The Musical by Susan Stroman and John Weidman is described as a "contact improvisation" on the painting. 2001: The...
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    technique and Hawkins technique and Postmodern dance techniques such as Contact improvisation and Cunningham technique, and Release technique. Some well-known...
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  • Contact Quarterly (CQ) is a contemporary dance magazine established in 1975, with a focus on improvisation and performance. In addition to its periodical...
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    and include elements such as performance art, contact improvisation, release technique, and improvisation. American modern dance can be divided (roughly)...
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  • dancers (more than two) without a distinct leader or follower (e.g. contact improvisation). Connection refers to a host of different techniques in many types...
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    was not protectable under copyright law. Ballet master Contact improvisation Dance improvisation Film editing List of choreographers List of dance awards#Choreography...
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  • Index International, a reference database Comprehensible input Contact improvisation, a dance technique CI, postnominal for Companion of the Order of...
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  • Macron below, a diacritic accent Underscore (dance), a practice in contact improvisation developed by Nancy Stark Smith Underscore Records Pvt. Ltd., an...
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  • Bollywood & Freestyle Lyrical Hip-hop Lyrical Broadway Jazz Freestyle Contact Improvisation Tandav Cabaret — Freestyle Afro & Acrobacia Contemporary & Krumping...
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  • (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique) Competitive dance Condong Conga Contact improvisation Contemporary dance Contra dance Cordax Greek / Roman erotic dance...
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  • with other dance styles such as Bachata, Salsa, Argentinian Tango, Contact Improvisation or West Coast Swing. As of 2019, two of the most popular branches...
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  • society". DanceAbility trains its dancers using improvisation techniques, mainly Contact Improvisation. This is "a forum in which able and disabled dancers...
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  • Release Technique. Elements of release technique can be found in contact improvisation. In dance, it is usually taught as an integrated part of contemporary...
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    circuit. Victim-operated improvised explosive devices (VOIED), also known as booby traps, are designed to function upon contact with a victim. VOIED switches...
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  • maintenance, muscle stretching, range of motion exercises, yoga, contact improvisation, modern dance, resistance training, and other physical activity...
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  • to the pedagogical influence of the modern dance discipline of contact improvisation and of the Russian martial art of Ryabko Systema, the Wolf System's...
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  • Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others, in the early evolution of contact improvisation, and was a crucial observer of its development through her work...
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  • can be traced back to the Judson Dance Theater include: Contact improvisation Dance improvisation Dance for camera Some of the notable artists who were...
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  • A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure...
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