Life Lessons Learned Through Contact Improvisation | Gregory Catellier & Kristin O'Neal | TEDxEmory

[@alexeylelchuk]

Yes! I looked for such a presentation of CI -- with clear explanations of specific aspects. Yes, we all know this implicitly as we dance, but a newcomer usually doesn't understand the point. Here is the way to explain. Thank you.

[@moneymkm]

legends! These two were my intro to contact in college. so happy to see this video

[@gerrardmartindance2020]

well done - clear, warm, human

[@CreaJohnson]

Such a great work at describing the dynamics of CI! Thank you :)

[@andreadybvik]

Wow - this was so powerful to watch! Love how you put the essence of contact improv into words! 💛

[@Munkeley]

Love it. I bet they just had an intention of what they wanted to convey, but the details and flow of the presentation was mostly improvised. Beautiful

[@tjasajamnikar2521]

This is great content! Great job. I laughed with you.💓

[@alaristodar2257]

This was fantastic

[@meeshellsmybelle]

I was a student of kristen oneal decades ago. I remember when i was followed and harrassed by a man in my apartment complex and the first thing she asked me was what was i wearing. Or when i told her i couldnt make rehearsal because i had to work and she dragged me for not being serious about dancing and i lost my job to attend her rehearsal...and she was indifferent about it.or when i had vertigo in class and fell over she thought i was "acting". I was very young. If i knew then what i know now..wild that i found this.

[@chryspapaioannou9302]

Very misleading to suggest that CI can be reduced to a means through which we can gain skills to be pleasant colleagues in the workplace. The very notion that the pleasure and joy and freedom we experience in jams is a transferable employability skill would be an anathema to Steve Paxton, and to so many of us across the globe who see the radical potential of dancing CI as a form of nonviolent resistance.

[@AmberMills-bt8es]

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[@renata3691]

stereotype CI. Yankees always monetizing whatever is around. Their movdements are completely away from what CI looks like when you see actual CI dancers in a jam...!

[@georue98]

Yanks created the dance form, in the US? I’ve seen some of the original video from oberlin, it took a while to develop.