Contact improvisation comes of age.(Interview)

Dance Magazine | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

How is Contact Improvisation like the Internet?

Lots of ways, it turns out. Both the dance form and the electronic network came into being in the early 1970s. Both revolutionized the way we communicate. Both have spread dramatically, becoming worldwide phenomena. "Surfing" is part of the lingo in both. And neither has managed to make much money.

"Does everything have to make money?" Steve Paxton asks when I try out this comparison in a telephone interview. Paxton "instigated" contact improvisation, to use his word, in New York City in 1972, after experiments during a ...

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