Loving this series. Many thanks! Secret River person here, seeking wind in the hair ☺️❤️‍🔥

Thanks for the rant;) As a musician playing live at CI Jams i can totaly relate, listening to the space and looking at the movements of the dancers is so important an informs my sound&rhythms, unfolding in time.

Hey Martin, I am sure, you also find some valuable answers in these decades of improvisation. :) for these existential questions, I found Neal D. Walsch books very helpfull. 🙏🙂

I would go one step further and say it's the only way to change ones relationship to contact from consumer to creator

Hi Martin im virginia from Rosario Argentina thanks you for all dedication to CI , i live for this to, i wish have a mentor Kiss

Thank you very much Master 🙏⭐️ Grateful greetings from Argentina !

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no such thing, always a beginner

contact improvisation is not a perfomable art, it is ephemeral and transitory, it is anti-traditional-dance form in many ways, but obviously you can say that it is

How wonderful to hear you talk about CI again here. Thank you 🤗

Love this people. I ve been reading some texts Martin keogh wrote. So good, so deeply interesting!! Thanks

yes

"stick to the form" or remain within normative aesthetics standards?

Such a moving interview... especially when Nancy describes the image of throwing the 'wedding' bouquet behind her back, for us all to receive and to share. Rest in Soft Power x

thank you Martin

oh, i took y9our class in maximum flexibility in the mid 80s. i discovered contact improv on my own. i never really engaged with OTHERS at the dance site, but i learned to flow with others around me. i can navigate a crown effortlessly. sort of a cool superpower. just sayin hi.

Really enjoyed watching and listening.

What a joy to hear. Thanks to you both! I haven't gotten to practice since before the pandemic and yall make me miss it so much more. Tyty!

Thank you for this.

Somewhat late, I'm buying your ebook today Martin. Being grateful of your intensives I once followed at Freiburg (2016?) Thank you so much for being so authentic and lovely as a person. It deeply moves me at this moment. Death seems to enter in my current experience emotionally; hopefully yo'll be around for a long time! I'm intensifying Contact Impro again this year, so I'm looking forward reading your undoubtedly beautiful book. 🙏💞

2:21 shoulder roll

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😅😅😍Quiero bailarrrrr, volar!

Thank you for sharing this, Martin. I was so pleased to watch and listen to her, and stunned to see the two dates under her name at the end. I am seeing this for the first time. There's a sinking feeling in my heart and soul. Simultaneously, a realization of the gift she brought to humanity and the world.

UoA's Dance 101/101G brought me here...

UoA's Dance 101/101G brought me here...

Well I've recently discovered the hands so I've gone in the opposite direction of emphasizing them. But I can see your side. Possibly using the whole body would come from relaxing and aid relaxation. On the other hand (ha ha) the hands are an exceptionally good-feeling part of the body so there might be a tendency to concentrate on what they're feeling and doing?

Depends what you mean by fear. I want fear to give me a sense that something is threatening, or I'm about to be hurt. Nothing wrong with that, it's evolutionary, and those who ignored fear didn't live to procreate. I think you mean not be ruled by dysfunctional fear - I'm all in for that.

Thanks so much for this! I found it just as my friend and I are working on CI for performance.

Martin Keogh and Ray Chung, performing on Contact Festival Freiburg 2001, filmed by Marina Konovalova

just gorgeous.

This was so beautiful, both the dance and the underlying talk. I loved every piece of it. I just realized that CI has a very own sense of humor... Even the audience was alive and I could feel direct communication and contact. I recently meditated on something and it had to do with contact improvisation. To be honest, I want to learn this dance with my whole heart and teach others! <3

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So fun to hear your stories told like this. Just little vignettes....inspiring to me as I want to do something similar. Thanks Martin. The peanut butter bit reminds me of a Jimmy Buffet song I used to listen to in my 20's--there's a line, "Who's gonna steal the peanut butt, I'll get the can of sardines...running up and down the isle of the Mini Mart, sticking food in our jeans...". Love the short story. Keep 'me coming! <3

I love how the moments of tenderness are allowed to happen in this dance. I've found this is the next level of CI for me....to surrender to and embrace this tender affection that spontaneously arises as we connect in this total way with another human being.

Happy Birthday Martin and congrats on the forthcoming book!

yay! for you, Martin. I love your videos...and look forward to reading your new book! let us know when/where we can get it! oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! ;)

Yes please Martin. Look forward to your new book.

Hace muchos años que no veia esos gatos por este rumbo Afortunadamente contamos con ellos. Felicidades excelente video.

Great!

Absolutely beautifully well done. superb commentary and movement . Contact improvisation is for me, by far one of the greatest experiences in dance/movement . thanks for putting this on you tube. .

Thank you Martin! Love to you

I love your videos and the ideas you share! It's sometimes obvious but the way you say about it is adorable! Thank you!

:D Thank you Martin

Here is the website: contactimprovisationsaltspring.com/

20 years of beginning an investigation of spirals, that seems about right. I find the subject of offering feedback fascinating. While in the dance, I enjoy using differences of pressure to discover how one is listening with their body. A play with sound offers me feedback of how playful one may be.

Your very Welcome and thank you for the response. Always a pleasure communication with you. Maybe someday soon we can meet again in person.

thank you Martin