Missoula Contact Improv

Contact Improvisation is an evolving system of movement initiated in 1972 by American choreographer Steve Paxton.

The improvised dance form is based on the communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia. The body, in order to open to these sensations, learns to release excess muscular tension and abandon a certain quality of willfulness to experience the natural flow of movement. Prac

06/09/2019

We won’t be having contact today. World contact time instead. Check in next time!

05/31/2019

Contact Improvisation Practice - Anya Cloud and Matan Levkowich

Anya is teaching a 5 day CI workshop IN MISSOULA this summer. Hope to dance with you there!!
http://www.mountaindancefest.com

For more info about my work: http://matanlevkowich.com/ Here is a short video of an open contact improvisation practice with my friend Anya Cloud. Contact im...

05/21/2019

Contact Improvisation - A couple of basic exercises

Here are some basics when practicing contact improvisation.

08/23/2018

Contact Jam tonight in the PARTV building on UM campus 7-9pm FREE

08/12/2018

Contact Improv jams 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month beginning in September // 5-6:30pm at the Open Way Mindfulness Center. Next jam is September 2nd, 2018.

05/02/2018

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Anya Cloud will be featured--teaching Contact this year at MDF--register early for 15% off discount code EARLYBIRD

mountaindancefest.com Mountain Dance Fest

03/15/2018

Carol Anne Lesser, LMT

Join us tonight for Sacred Shimmy! Dance and meditation for everyone, 7:45pm at the Downtown Dance Collective

12/07/2017

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

Contact Improv Missoula has clear boundaries, consent culture and a safe place to practice.

contactimprovconsentculture.com It’s a typical Wednesday night in Toronto. In a third-floor ballroom, some forty people have come to dance together. A bow lifts and settles on cello strings and one can see the bodies absorb the …

09/18/2017

Port Townsend Jam at Centrum

mailchi.mp The Fall is the time we move indoors and need to DANCE!Join us for a five day Contact Improvisation collaborative residency hosted by Cyrus Khambatta at Centrum, December 13-17, 2017. Explore, research and practice CI, labbing and jamming with other dancers in a daily facilitated format. Afterward,…

09/16/2017

Why we practice CI- generated by a group conversation on Sept. 10, 2017, please add other reasons that aren't here if you want.

learn the form: weight sharing, lifting, rolling, diving, falling -fundamentals

community building-developing trust

collaboration/collective impact

metaphors for life

balance in life between verbal and non verbal or spoken/written and kinesthetic intelligence

feeling vibrant, alive, ease, goofy, having fun

free flowing/in flow

playful touch

touch that is neither confrontational or sexual

freedom from traditional gender roles -a chance for women to feel strength and men to feel sensitivity

sensual not sexual

reconnecting to our child mind/body

inclusivity of all bodies

safe space/environment-it has clear rules for participating

intimate, but public

builds comfort in our bodies

listening to our bodies

builds awareness

therapeutic applications

immediate change

engaged practice

cultivates embodiment

relationship and connection

06/24/2017

Images from Global Underscore 2017 in Missoula today. Delightful and simple beauty. Thank you for showing up and be brave in body.

06/19/2017

Missoula Contact Improv's cover photo

06/18/2017

The underscore-an extended jam for learning and improvising-is coming to Missoula on Saturday June 24 11:30am-3pm at the Downtown Dance Collective $15. All welcome.

06/01/2017

4 rituals proven by neuroscience to make you happy

Touch (contact) , making decisions in the moment (improv) and gratitude!

theladders.com You get all kinds of happiness advice on the internet from people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Don’t trust them. Trust neuroscience.

05/19/2017

The Body Awake

A fantastic interview about Contact Improv with Martin Keogh on The Body Awake by our fellow CI dancer, Liam Bowler!

thebodyawake.com The Body Awake is a podcast for people interested in health and the human body, and wanting a conversation beyond just "the body as a machine." Part Western physical body, part functional training, part mental-emotional-spiritual investigation.

05/17/2017

Global Underscore

Getting ready for the Global Underscore

05/14/2017

Dance Ranch Marfa – Lower Left

Hey friends, I just registered for this! Marfa, TX contact improv and dance improv workshop: Dance Ranch Marfa.

lowerleft.org DANCE RANCH is a five day workshop, created and led by Lower Left, intended to provide dedicated spaces, performances, and practice periods for collective and individual learning and exploration. We integrate Ensemble Thinking, ReWire-Dancing States, and other dance making techniques, including Cont...

04/29/2017

Fred Holland & Ishmael Houston-Jones, 1983. Contact At 2nd & 10th

Contact Improv in action.

Fred Holland & Ishmael Houston-Jones, at Danspace Project,NYC, 1983. Contact At 2nd & 10th, Videographer: Cathy Weis

03/27/2017

Global Underscore

Global Underscore
Dancing the Underscore Simultaneously Around the Globe
www.globalunderscore.com
[email protected]

03/27/2017

Mountain Dance Fest

Check out our very own dance festival: Mountain Dance Fest in Missoula, Montana!

Mountain Dance Fest is an adult-level contemporary dance technique, somatics, and improvisation training held at the University of Montana.

03/27/2017

What is the Global Underscore?

Saturday, June 24th is the Global Underscore Jam that lasts 3 hours, our time zone would begin at 12pm and end at 3pm. Is this something our Missoula Community wants to participate in? Please respond if you can attend.

globalunderscore.blogspot.com Blog about Global Underscore, an annual event in which Nancy Stark Smith's improvisational score, the Underscore, is practiced all over the world.

03/24/2017

Contact Improv this Sunday, March 26th is happening AT THE OPEN WAY CENTER on Brooks St. // 5pm to 6:30pm

03/23/2017

Contact Improv is cancelled this Sunday, March 26th because The Downtown Dance Collective is refinishing its floors. Contact Improv will resume following Sunday, April 2nd!

03/15/2017

Contact Improv is cancelled this Sunday March 19 and will resume March 26th.

03/14/2017

Global Underscore

Would You Like to Facilitate a Global Underscore Site?

02/27/2017

Global Underscore 2017

June 24th Global Contact Improv in the Underscore format.

conta.cc Global Underscore 2017

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