I was recently asked if I'd like to write something about teaching contact improvisation and I remembered that I already had. Back in 2009 for my...
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I remember a discussion at the SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in the early ‘90s about the radical potential of dance. Among the many...
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The conundrum Some years ago I had a crisis over the quality of my teaching. I started teaching in 1996. My classes were popular and...
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For many years I’ve noticed in myself a resistance to being led through warm ups for contact improvisation jams. Very simply, one of the reasons...
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My MA thesis is entitled Awareness Perception Presence : Inquiring into forming a body of work and is centred on a body of somatic movement…
This article took a long time to find the light of day. It was first published on my web site in this form in 2009 though...
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In terms of sheer physical safety, following the form brings safety in itself – by taking time to centre and ground yourself first; then by…
This CI Practice Session Score (or Score Jam) is based on Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore. It was initially intended as a way for those familiar with...
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To stretch or not to stretch? I'm often been asked what I think about stretching. I think it is because it seems to be absent...
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A funny thing happened recently that opened a whole new angle to my teaching – in fact it’s so distinctive that I decided to name…