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Writings & Resources

CI in Context: Writings and Resources

Follow the links to the articles and publications below for good reads on our dancestors, the festival, CI practice, and some of the issues we face as a community of practice. Want to recommend an article or resource for inclusion here? Contact us!

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Body as Home: A Reflection of the POC-Centered Jam Experience at the West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam

- Nhu Nguyen, Contact Quarterly

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Abled, disabled, connect through DanceAbility

- Berkeley Times

 

WCCIJAM 2013: Talking Bay Area Contact Improvisation, Past Present & Future

- Miriam Wolodarski, inDance

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Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo

- inDance

 

 

About CI

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Action Potential and the Potential to Take Action: Calling on Contact Improvisation and Site-Specific Dance during a Life-Threatening Event

- by Megan Lowe, in Contact Quarterly

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Contact Improvisers consider #metoo

- wcciJAM 2018 organizers & teachers

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Contact Quarterly

- CI's publication of record. 

“Improvisation”

Dumit, O’Connor, Drum, and McCullough

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Interview with the Fear Snuggler

- Miryam Coppersmith interviewing Eroca Nicols

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IWB = Improvising While Black

- Mayfield Brooks
 

“Improvising within the field of settler colonialism on Indigenous land.”
Katelyn Stiles, Margit Galanter, and Kevin O’Connor

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My Story about People of Color’s Contact Improvisation (POC CI) Jams and Parcon Resilience

- by Andrew Suseno, in Contact Quarterly

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Myths to Break Down: Moving Toward Ethical Communication and Ethical Sexuality in CI

- Sarah Gottlieb

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New York Times Review of Mangrove from 1978

- Jack Anderson

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Questioning Contact Improvisation – Zine Excerpts

- Keith Hennessy

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Respecting Boundaries / Coexisting Genders Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv

- Brooks Yardley

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“That lady”: The story of what happened when a woman put up a boundary in the contact improv world

- Kathleen Rea

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The Experiment Called Contact Improvisation

- Keith Hennessy

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The Newcomer Experience in Contact Dance Improvisation

- Kathleen Rea

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The Stages of Consent Culture for Dance Communities

- Megan Emerson & Portland Country Dance Community

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Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender
​- Mitra, Royona

 

 

About the world we live in

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Wetoo: What dancers talk about when they talk about sexism

- Ilse Ghekiere

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The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation

- Jarune Uwujaren

 

Privileges Held By Straight People

- Queers United

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White Fragility

- Robin DiAngelo

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Transphobia and Discrimination

- Trans Accessibility Project​​

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