WHAT IS CONTACT IMPROVISATION?

What is Contact Improvisation?

In performance we watch and understand Contact Improvisation as a meeting place. We can be engaged and fascinated by dialoguing yet silent bodies the same way we follow an actual conversation. CI has the power to move us by watching others being moved; in contact improvisation a physical change takes place that echoes a person changing, based on the negotiation of weight and mass in relation to gravity between two or more bodies.

It is called Contact Improvisation because like conversations, contact is unfolding naturally; it is not set. With letting things happen we can understand and constantly expand the capacity of what is possible, the play that exists between those that take part. We can take the freedom to explore and observe all that another body – or object – has to offer and while for some this manifests a performance others use it to broaden their vocabulary for performance making.