RESOURCES RESOURCES RESOURCES
Questions into Dancing autonomous blog during Future of CI 2021 hErE
Small Dance guided by Steve Paxton here
Material for the Spine website by ContreDanse + Steve Paxton here
CONTACT IMPROVISATION archival-originator videos
such as "Chute", "Soft Pallet", "Fall After Newton", many more! go here
Go to Contact Quarterly's site (CI and much more) articles + research archive here
serena and karen talk about CI history (9-4-25) here
Writings by Lisa Nelson
Tuning Scores and Before Your Eyes
Questions into Dancing autonomous blog during Future of CI 2021 hErE
Small Dance guided by Steve Paxton here
Material for the Spine website by ContreDanse + Steve Paxton here
CONTACT IMPROVISATION archival-originator videos
such as "Chute", "Soft Pallet", "Fall After Newton", many more! go here
Go to Contact Quarterly's site (CI and much more) articles + research archive here
serena and karen talk about CI history (9-4-25) here
Writings by Lisa Nelson
Tuning Scores and Before Your Eyes
"Why Standing" (2015) a lecture by Steve Paxton edited by Karen Nelson here
Steve Paxton rehearsal Goldberg Variations 1987 here
PA RT (1983) Lisa Nelson and Steve Paxton here
Steve's Video Amble by Lisa Nelson + Cathy Weis 2025 here
Steve Paxton rehearsal Goldberg Variations 1987 here
PA RT (1983) Lisa Nelson and Steve Paxton here
Steve's Video Amble by Lisa Nelson + Cathy Weis 2025 here
Chapters by Karen from "Dancing with Dharma" (book info here)
Doing Being (2014) about Contact Improvisation + Tuning from Karen's experience also as student on Buddha's and related travelers on spiritual path.
Tune in, Stand Around (2014) a guided tour, exercises to do.
article with mayfield brooks, contact quarterly contactquarterly.com/cq/article-gallery/view/iwbimprovising-while-black
video: 'in the break' with mayfield brooks vimeo.com/85012273
"CI interrogates it's history and currency
investigations centering on intersections and stories of CI thru the body"
lec/dem/jam/performance event at Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation 2018
https://vimeo.com/290089253/79c946dfe5
Common Ground// Joint Forces Dance Co.. became Dance Ability// dances document late 80's re: integrating CI dancers with and without disabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWo2i8_sYA
Choreography/performance vids:
Spell 2013
Blind Lovin 2013
Acapella Performance with Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Karen Nelson 1990
