Missoula Contact Improv

Missoula Contact Improv Contact Improvisation 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. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Prac

tice includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a physical point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Contact improvisations are spontaneous physical dialogues that range from stillness to highly energetic exchanges. Alertness is developed in order to work in an energetic state of physical disorientation, trusting in one's basic survival instincts. It is a free play with balance, self-correcting the wrong moves and reinforcing the right ones, bringing forth a physical/emotional truth about a shared moment of movement that leaves the participants informed, centered, and enlivened.

—early definition by Steve Paxton and others, 1970s, from CQ Vol. 5:1, Fall 1979

Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds.

—from Ray Chung workshop announcement, London, 2009

04/22/2022
04/22/2022
08/21/2019

jam
tonight (wednesday)
7 pm PARTV 005
free!

06/09/2019

We won’t be having contact today. World contact time instead. Check in next time!

Anya is teaching a 5 day CI workshop IN MISSOULA this summer. Hope to dance with you there!!http://www.mountaindancefest...
05/31/2019

Anya is teaching a 5 day CI workshop IN MISSOULA this summer. Hope to dance with you there!!
http://www.mountaindancefest.com

For more info about my work: http://matanlevkowich.com/ Here is a short video of an open contact improvisation practice with my friend Anya Cloud. Contact im...

Here are some basics when practicing contact improvisation.
05/21/2019

Here are some basics when practicing contact improvisation.

08/23/2018

Contact Jam tonight in the PARTV building on UM campus 7-9pm FREE

08/22/2018

Hi Friends, come to a Dance Improvisation Retreat...4 spots left, register by Thursday.

08/12/2018

Contact Improv jams 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month beginning in September // 5-6:30pm at the Open Way Mindfulness Center. Next jam is September 2nd, 2018.

05/02/2018

Anya Cloud will be featured--teaching Contact this year at MDF--register early for 15% off discount code EARLYBIRD

Mountain Dance Fest

03/15/2018

Join us tonight for Sacred Shimmy! Dance and meditation for everyone, 7:45pm at the Downtown Dance Collective

Contact Improv Missoula has clear boundaries, consent culture and a safe place to practice.
12/07/2017

Contact Improv Missoula has clear boundaries, consent culture and a safe place to practice.

It’s a typical Wednesday night in Toronto. In a third-floor ballroom, some forty people have come to dance together. A bow lifts and settles on cello strings and one can see the bodies absorb the …

09/18/2017

The Fall is the time we move indoors and need to DANCE!Join us for a five day Contact Improvisation collaborative residency hosted by Cyrus Khambatta at Centrum, December 13-17, 2017. Explore, research and practice CI, labbing and jamming with other dancers in a daily facilitated format. Afterward,…

09/16/2017

Why we practice CI- generated by a group conversation on Sept. 10, 2017, please add other reasons that aren't here if you want.

learn the form: weight sharing, lifting, rolling, diving, falling -fundamentals

community building-developing trust

collaboration/collective impact

metaphors for life

balance in life between verbal and non verbal or spoken/written and kinesthetic intelligence

feeling vibrant, alive, ease, goofy, having fun

free flowing/in flow

playful touch

touch that is neither confrontational or sexual

freedom from traditional gender roles -a chance for women to feel strength and men to feel sensitivity

sensual not sexual

reconnecting to our child mind/body

inclusivity of all bodies

safe space/environment-it has clear rules for participating

intimate, but public

builds comfort in our bodies

listening to our bodies

builds awareness

therapeutic applications

immediate change

engaged practice

cultivates embodiment

relationship and connection

Images from Global Underscore 2017 in Missoula today. Delightful and simple beauty. Thank you for showing up and be brav...
06/24/2017

Images from Global Underscore 2017 in Missoula today. Delightful and simple beauty. Thank you for showing up and be brave in body.

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