Touching...Again
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photo: Jen Kertis-Veit; with Jana Meiring & Karen Nelson
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CONTENT
The skills of Contact Improvisation (CI) provide a reflex-ready body state that Tuning Scores practice can elaborate towards collective compositional play. Working with the Tuning Scores' physical strategies of being guided by sense perceptions, one's internal CI focus of gravity and falling can become exposed to space, location, visibility, measurement, new levels of communication and endless environmental and community influences. These practices are related to developments, extensions and diversions of the CI form since it formalized in 1972.
The skills of Contact Improvisation (CI) provide a reflex-ready body state that Tuning Scores practice can elaborate towards collective compositional play. Working with the Tuning Scores' physical strategies of being guided by sense perceptions, one's internal CI focus of gravity and falling can become exposed to space, location, visibility, measurement, new levels of communication and endless environmental and community influences. These practices are related to developments, extensions and diversions of the CI form since it formalized in 1972.
BIO
Karen Nelson rests playfully within dance improvisation and Buddhist study and practice. As explorer-collaborator, teacher, maker, touring performer, she has been a mutator of the form Contact Improvisation since 1977. She integrates physical-sensation based approach to dancing, along with investigating dominant cultural narratives and re-vers(ion)ing these fictions within her own embodiment and wider community.
video clip from 1991/ "findings"
with Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson
