Twelve "distinguished dancers who continue to enjoy exceptionally long performing careers" discuss their diverse pathways through the art form and what sustains them in their present performing practices. Representing a wide range of dance traditions, interviewed artists include Yoshito Ohno, Steve Paxton, La Tati, Julyen Hamilton, Pauline de Groot, Lisa Nelson, Philippe Priasso, Jacky Lansley, Will Gaines, Jane Dudley, Fergus Early, and Bisakha Sarker.

This two-volume set is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Contact Improvisation (CI). The Sourcebooks offer a multi-voiced history of CI's development through letters, articles, poems, dialogues, reports, photos, and drawings by a wide range of dedicated practitioners of this unique contemporary dance form. The best of CQ's CI writing (1975-2007), reprinted from CQ's pages. Many photos. Special duet price, reg. $56.

Xeroxed articles, essays, drawings, photos, and quotes directly concerning Contact Improvisation, reprinted from Contact Quarterly, 1975 through 1992.

In celebration of Contact Improvisation's 36th anniversary, we release this second volume—a multivoiced history of the dance form's ongoing development, through articles, poems, exercises, writings, photos, and drawings about CI, printed in Contact Quarterly, 1992 through 2007.

Pioneering movement educator Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen describes her innovative approach to embodiment, movement analysis, and movement reeducation through her collected articles and interviews from Contact Quarterly, 1980-2007. Thirty-two additional pages with articles on the cell, embryology, and the autonomic nervous system, as well as new photos and illustrations.

This interactive DVD-ROM immerses us in Paxton's world, to experience the logic and invention at the core of Material for the Spine, a technique evolved from his observation of the spine in the practice of Contact Improvisation. Original audiovisual essays, motion capture sequences, and extracts from lectures, classes, and performances give an overview, the details of the technique, and the exercises and forms that constitute it.

The inside-out of dancer/CQ editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of the dance form Contact Improvisation. Includes Q&As between David and Nancy; photos of dancing & living; Talk Bubbles from friends, colleagues, and family; the Underscore; Nancy's life stories; and more—fourteen years in the making.

Dance improviser and coeditor of Contact Quarterly, Melinda Buckwalter mines her direct experience of the improvisational strategies of 26 pioneering contemporary dance artists and their varied approaches to this art form. With a mosaic of histories, methods, sample practices, source writings, and biographies of the artists, including Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Nina Martin, Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Min Tanaka, et al., Composing offers a much needed and inspiring resource for dancers and dance educators. Watch the YouTube infomercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ96ZKtxpCg

An investigation into the life-reflecting process of improvisation. Each chapter, a day in a twenty-day training of Action Theater.

A glimpse into Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater™, an improvisational physical theater training and performance method that incorporates embodied movement, vocalization, and speech. Follow sixteen people through a two-week workshop in which improvisers are pushed to the edge of their creativity.

Integrating environmental science, biology, meditations, and creative expression, Olsen addresses the interconnectedness of body and place through a mixture of reflections, information, exercises, and visual art.

This book presents improvisation as a source of creativity through poetry, prose, patterns on the page, and images.

Thirty-one days of learning sessions bring heightened awareness about each bone and body system as well as providing self-guided studies to activate the learning processes.

A devoted practitioner writes about contact improvisation from an experiential viewpoint, discussing its history, fundamentals, and political, social, and cultural ramifications, with questions, exercises, a teacher's sampler.

A guide for developing the improvisational mind through a blend of play, fundamental BMC exercises, & CI skills.

A rare document of Bonnie in action as she teaches a workshop in Brussels in May 2004, speaks about the evolution of her work, and demonstrates her theories of weight, time, and space as they apply to dancing.
In English, with live translation into French.

Through a series of student writings and essays by established artists teaching in universities throughout the U.S., Encounters considers the unique experience of teaching and learning Contact within an educational institution. Included are sections on students' first impressions, thoughts on the often surprising effects of touch within the dance, classroom exercises, the role of Contact in life after school, debate about institutional formats, a comic strip, and more. Members, login to receive your discount.

An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance.

A practical and informative introduction to the work of André Bernard (1924–2003), a major teacher in the lineage of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, and Barbara Clark. Includes historical background, an interview, and transcriptions of two workshops that can be used as self-guided lessons.

An in-depth and comprehensive study of anatomical imagery based on the Todd-Clark work, with a complete description of the skeletal system.

An invaluable historical resource and practical text about Clark, a pioneering thinker in the somatics field. Includes Clark's previously published and unpublished manuals and teaching notes.

An account of Hay's dance-making process with insights into the creation of her performance practices and the invention of her dance libretto, with comments from contemporary artists.

Devoted to improvisation as a performance form, this book consists of 14 interviews with dancers/improvisers whose creative process derives directly from instant composition: Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Lisa Nelson, Julyen Hamilton, Felice Wolfzahn, Pauline De Groot, K.J. Holmes, Suzanne Cotto, Simone Forti, David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, Alessandro Certini, Frans Poelstra, and Katie Duck.

Essential messages from the early teachings of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen—founder of Body-Mind Centering—collected over seven years of study by the author-photographer. Each thought crystal is accompanied by a photograph.

An insightful look at the development of Contact Improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.

21 essays by prominent practitioners and scholars reflecting the development of improvisation as a compositional and performance mode. Including considerations of contact improvisation, recent innovations in tap dancing, and improvisation in everyday life

A comprehensive guide to the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind Centering®, with concrete and poetic explorations, clear exercises, and extensive photos and drawings.

Two early interviews with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen by Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson for CQ (included in the book Sensing, Feeling & Action

Introduction to "The Great Ball Work," with an exercise by founder Elaine Summers.

Discussion with one of the foremost teachers of the Todd-Clark work, interviewed by Richard Rosen and Nancy Lyons, including an article by Bernard introducing the work.

Writings and reflections by and about Richard Bull, a pioneer of "choreographic structured improvisation."

Offprints of Remy Charlip's delightful three-installment CQ article from 1986 & 1987, available as a set. Imaginative "bodyplayresearch," in drawings and text to be read aloud or savored in silence.