History and Politics - East and West in Contact Improvisation

From Contactencyclopedia

Presented by Tanzfabrik Berlin during the CI 36 Satellite - Symposium Contact Context
in cooperation with Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz-
Pilotprojekt Tanzplan Berlin, Ponderosa e.V., Jess Curtis/Gravity

12th of July 2008

Marina Konovalova contributed a written article about CI in Russia.

1 Notes taken from the "post its"
2 "Crawling over/under score" by Nita Little
3 East and West
4 Is Contact Improvisation a dance form or a community?
5 The motor of modernity is movement
6 Dieter Heitkamp talks about the history of the Tanzfabrik Berlin

Notes taken from the "post its"

The motor of modernity is movement
Dance – stage art
What was before Steve Paxton?
East formalists minimalists were working anatomically
Removing personality, removing emotion
Talking about CI is talking about dance in Europe but not in the US
Value systems
Feminism light, liberation light, spirituality light
Sexuality in contact, gender issues
Codes of touch – cultural queer gendered
Who writes history?
Artistic practice improvisation – contact
How to look at body, at power
Misunderstandings of CI
Activist practice
Contemporary dance education
„Thinking systems“ behind positions in contemporary art
Is CI a dance form or a community?
Nita Little: crawling over under score
„Exhausting dance“ – slowing down
Dance that is projecting out shifts into sensation
Generosity
Hierarchy in CI
Missionaries – markets – future
The body is always culturally codified
Is CI a shock absorber for politically traumatized bodies?
Self reflexiveness on the scientifical approach (anatomy, physics)
In small dance: Who is dancing?
Is contact a retreat from politics?
Can difference dance together?
Natural science vs. social cultural aspects
Touch permission culture