Here are some readings and other resources.
READINGS (via the web)
- list of fundamental skills, techniques, and questions of contact improvisation
- incredible list of questions/concepts explored in “focus” jams, with links to dancer observations post-jam
- Harvest: One History of Contact Improv by one of the founders, Nancy Stark Smith
- 101 Ways to Say No to Contact Improv: Boundaries and Trust by Martin Keogh
- Historical Review of CI by Elizabeth Zimmer
- CI glossary
- first-jam advice from a LA contact community
BOOKS
- Contact Improvisation: Moving, Dancing, Interaction by Thomas Kaltenbrunner
- Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Art Form by Cheryl Pallant
- Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering: A Manual for Teaching and Learning Movement by Annie Brook
- The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader (ed. Michael Huxley)