Contact Improvisation in performance

RolloKohime Says:

May 19, 2012 - Nice, David and Jacob! Great to see you! CI in open improv performance so often seems to convey choreographed intent - signifying instead, how fine is the improvisational lack of intent.

caseyisntfunny Says:

Dec 11, 2011 - Beautiful. We're learning how to do this in my Improvisation in Dance & Theatre class. So inspiring!

noneofusareok Says:

Oct 21, 2011 - I am sorry, I do not go through the comments to find out I have made a comment in the past, I just watch videos and some of them make me wanna make a comment, that's all. I think I was consistent then. I like what you guys are doing, I just had a point to make. It matters to me how it is made, as a viewer, I am also a researcher. I try to understand processes.

slightlymoving Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - pleasure!

slightlymoving Says:

Oct 19, 2011 - i'm curious... why did you come back 3 years later to make essentially the same comment again? as to your claim. the work was not semi-rehearsed. it was an open improvisation with the structure and content forming in real time. but regardless, does it matter how a work is made?

noneofusareok Says:

Jul 1, 2011 - Semi-rehearsed, you guys so knew most of the paths you were going down (or up) etc.

AndyRiot Says:

May 20, 2011 - why am i crying...?!?!? 

AlyllinenElamanmuoto Says:

Mar 13, 2011 - I tried contact impro yesterday for the first time. Of course I wasn't as good as these people but I had my moments of flow. It was incredible. And so is this.

Tygenja Says:

Sep 9, 2010 - the way i do it is more fluid, i feel there was more emphasis on what lift or strange way shuld i move my body than the acting o organics... but its nice to see more stuff on youtube

pelallo2 Says:

Aug 26, 2010 - Loved it !

NCAAHPERD Says:

Jul 8, 2010 - Thanks for posting - we are always interested in finding high quality videos about dance and dance education.

HIMANI28 Says:

Jun 21, 2010 - i love your music and the work created...very nice

whiskycopter Says:

Mar 27, 2010 - this has a thing for us (?)

Hydramus89 Says:

Mar 10, 2010 - very nice moments here and there! I like how they are taking risks as well. Risks always make a performance a lot more interesting! :)

PChanmisao Says:

Feb 10, 2010 - I never realized how beautiful contact improv can be until I watched him.

slightlymoving Says:

Jan 17, 2010 - vibraphone!

pianowoods Says:

Dec 18, 2009 - Not the violin, the one at about 40secs.

pianowoods Says:

Dec 18, 2009 - what is the instrument being played by a bow?

daveo1801 Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - this is fuckin amazing

turtlewalzer Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - Don't get distracted by the props.  Watch the guy in the blue pants at 6:05. He is a master.

mainsqueezer Says:

Jul 8, 2009 - Contact improvisation is a form open to almost all body types -- fat or thin, tall or short. That's the beauty of the form. It doesn't take any special skills to go to contact improvisation classes, all it takes is a willingness to step outside your box...

Evanmera Says:

May 23, 2009 - Not required... I think it IS in every one of us. And if we want, we can find it and bring it out, evolve it... I think.

PChanmisao Says:

Apr 22, 2009 - The first half was impressive enough, but the second half....just wow. That's the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time. The strength and grace that must be required for this....I can only imagine.