Is Contact Improvisation Performable? - A performance with commentary

Is Contact Improvisation Performable? - A performance with commentary

[@natapostscriptum7986]

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

[@piggycherie]

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!

[@katherinemarino4111]

Really enjoyed watching and listening.

[@marianl3447]

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. .

[@MartinKeogh]

and thank you!

[@SuperRichTee]

thank you Martin

[@LauraE0405]

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

[@wasswasswass]

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

[@elialopezdemurillas4908]

😅😅😍Quiero bailarrrrr, volar!

[@wasswasswass]

tune the audience to them - necessitates having performance practice

[@matthewvincenttaylor]

yes

[@vent533]

2:21 shoulder roll

[@piggycherie]

[@vent533]

2:13

[@olegdepapa]

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