Steve Paxton and Gerry Overington contact improv duet (Gerry is completely blind)

[@o.kavurko8599]

It’s the purest form of contact improvisation

[@sergegubelman]

thank you for posting

[@tombink]

Thanks Serge. Hope life is treating you well!

[@markonlasqueti]

Excellent!

[@Jenny-xx7eq]

Beautiful duet! How about an audiodescription for this so that it can be shared with blind people as well?

[@martajucci2317]

Amazing Tom, from where it comes this record? You made this video? Thank you for posting such a beautiful dance.

[@tombink]

Hi Marta, This is from my earlier days going to the Breitenbush Jam. I shot alot of video there over the years (I went 30 years straight till a few years ago. That Jam used to be much shorter and we'd all go into Eugene OR post jam and do two evenings of peformances. In those days was doing alot of the early work in mixed ability dance at Dartington in England (with Anne Kilcoyne now sadly gone). Steve worked with Gerry there and the Dartington came to Breitenbush a few times. In person it was always quite amazing to be in presence of. The level of communications via touch and near proximity felt through the medium of gravity was just extraordinary.

[@litium2896]

and the music?

[@user-pw3xt9lb6h]

Dear Tom, I want to license this clip for one of my clients for an exhibition on Dance. Could you, please, be so kind to let me know, who produced this film? Is it your own video? Many thanks for getting back to me very soon.

[@theleafofgrass]

Thank you. Steve in the black shirt and Gerry in the yellow?

[@tombink]

Steve is in the white t-shirt and Gerry in black

[@rnbsteenstar]

Which one is Jerry?

[@tombink]

Steve Paxton is in the white T-shirt Jerry is the other dancer