The poetics of touch: NANCY STARK SMITH, a pathway into contact improvisation

Portrait of the american dancer and teacher Nancy Stark Smith and the dance form Contact Improvisation, shot at Casina Settarte (Italy).
A film by Sara Pozzoli and Germana Siciliani
www.nancystarksmith.com
www.casinasettarte.org
www.sarapozzoli.com

[@asalane20]

Thank you so much for this post. I am mesmerized.

[@embodiedethics6997]

So many years later... My heart bursts in gratitude at everything Nancy offered and created. My life was impacted by her intelligence and grace in more ways than I can say. Thankful for this trace!

[@sarapozzoli1873]

Merci dear Mandoline!!! We will always remember Nancy in our hearts with deep gratitude. Love

[@chandralizfaller295]

So grateful a friend sent me this link today in celebration of Nancy's life! This is priceless- so well done! Thank you!

[@sarapozzoli1873]

Thank you very much dear Liz. Love and gratitude

[@zhasminamanolova7680]

All these people are so blessed meeting Nancy

[@gabriellee6770]

I’m wandering and exploring videos that feature Nancy dancing and teaching “out there/here” in the electronosphere, and I found your video. Very happy to watch and listen to Nancy, Mike, and dancers who were part of this intensive. It’s poignant, delightful, heartbreaking to visually and auditorially contact Nancy and her teaching at this time, when just today I learned that she died last week, let go of her body and flew on to another dance. She was my first Contact Improv teacher, 40 years ago, and here and there over the dozen or so years that followed. Thank you for this beautiful video!

[@sarapozzoli1873]

Thank you so much dear Gabrielle E for your touching words!! Buone danze, buon tutto.

[@iFilmdiSara]

thank you for watching, it was a great pleasure to make

[@colleenbartley4571]

I love everything about this film- x thanks Sara and germana- all the people in it and CS, NSS ETC

[@sarapozzoli1873]

Thank you very much Colleen!!!

[@antonioslazaros]

So inspiring and touching! Nancy's words are at the same time simple and deep. Reminds me of Martin Buber :)

[@iFilmdiSara]

Thank you very much for your sensitive words of appreciation!

[@CrouchendBlue]

Very nice indeed. Can't wait to visit Casina Settarte in August for their summer CI jam.

[@hungrybody]

fine work ,and nancy is so great . thank you for sharing.

[@SanfordLewis]

Yeah! Beautiful work!

[@sarapozzoli1873]

Thank you

[@jennyconnatty7635]

Simple pleasures...

[@panayiotistofi7649]

Amazing woman...

[@m888ng]

very nice. thanks. and hey, fyi, the past tense of shoot is shot, not shooted...

[@iFilmdiSara]

opsss!!! GRAZIE!

[@user-hujuser1]

Hi from Russia 2024 ❤

[@consuelopacheco2692]

porfavorrr traduce al español seria tan bueno para todos!!!

[@arthursilvaprata3917]

From which year is this film from ?

[@labendicionsiemprees]

puedo traducir al castellano? me permmiten, es muy bueno el video besos

[@MyUsernameIsMyIs]

Cont. … I dont know what your intention in giving the film the title was, but '"The Poetics of Touch" could be rephrased (not retitled) therefore as 'the Philosphy of touch' which for me is far more embodied and reflective than 'the Poetry of touch' which suggests to me an exploration of subjectivity… just a thought . Peace. Jonathan Megaw

[@MyUsernameIsMyIs]

Thanks for the film & posting! Can you tell me if "The Poetics of Touch" is Nancy's title, (of the workshop, for example) or yours? Since Daniel M is helping with English above I would point out to viewers and commentators that 'Poetics' has a rather different significance than 'Poetry'. While some dictionaries might relate 'poetics' to the art of writing 'poetry', more dictionaries will define it as a 'theory' of literary discourse, or to my mind more accurately, Philosophical discourse!