Contactencyclopedia:About
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Contactencylopedia is a website for Contact Improvisation. It is collaboratively written by volunteers all over the world. It contains interlinked articles meant for learning, sharing, researching, developing and discussing issues of contact improvisation. Based on the Mediawiki Software, it is similar to wikipedia, which might be familiar to you. Help provides information on how to use the site. To easely get an overview of the new features, articles, and running projects, click on New articles and current projects.
The aim of this site is to facilitate the archiving and distribution of the work of the contact community:
- for informative purposes and for facilitating research
- for archiving the history of a dance form that is constantly developing and placing the work of individuals in a historical and geographical context
- to give people the opportunity to share their research results
- to give credit to dancers / teachers / institutions for their work in developing and fostering contact improvisation.
- to help define a vocabulary for teaching and exchange about CI (a continuation of the dictionary of delight)
- to facilitate discussion through an online site freely accessible
The site:
- provides a search engine for finding specific documents,
- enables links between texts to embed specific information into networks and greater topics, this making even small contributions of different forms relevant (interviews, reports, biographies, thesis, maybe even drafts or simply questions),
- provides space for discussion, different views, approaches and esthetics.
To keep contactencyclopedia.net a usefull tool we would like you to respect certain guidelines. They differ slightly from the guidelines of wikipedia, but have a similar aim: creating a freely accessible network of information that can be navigated easily.
We encourage anyone to contribute to this site by posting texts, images or videos. Posting information about institutions, biographies can contribute to advertisement or self-promotion, but should not follow only this purpose. Please be sure that any article contributes to the understanding of contact improvisation. To keep the site functional, administrators and editors will overview the contributions made, create links between articles, develop structures to organize information and contact contributors if they feel articles do not fit the site.
We hope this site will enhance sharing, communication, discussion within the contact community.
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Archive
This site is a database, an archive which enables users to contribute information. It is a collection of text-based articles which can also contain other media (pictures, videos, sound). Anyone can start new articles or add to existing ones by clicking on the "Edit this page" tab. Even though changes appear instantly, the previous versions of the article a stored and can be viewed in the "history" tab of the article.
Research
Articles can be found using the search engine, which lists all the articles containing the word looked after. The articles are all inter-linked. Whereever a word is colored, a link exists to an article relevant to that word. This enables a non-linear organisation of knowledge, embedding single articles into a network of information.
Current projects
Contactencylopedia is not only a tool for documenting the past. Various projects can take place there, such as the "Dictionary of delight". It provides a place for exchange and communication for a worlwide community.
Discussion
Each article has a "discussion" tab. Comments, doubts and questions can be posted there.
