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)