Selective bibliography of published materials in the Resource/Reference Room at CI25 (the Contact Improvisation Birthday Celebration) June, 1997 by Dena Davida. Converted to HTML by Jim Davis.

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Theses and Academic Papers

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Carter, Teri Mae. 1992. "On the Shoulders of Giants: A choreographic thesis investigating the creative process of three developmental phases in contact improvisation." Masters Thesis, Department of Dance, University of Oregon.

Fiscella, John. 1985. "Steve Paxton: Utopian Transits." Masters Thesis, Department of Performance Studies, New York University.

Horwitz, Carol. 1995. "Challenging dominant gender ideology through dance: contact improvisation." Ph.D. Thesis in Physical Education, Graduate College of the University of Iowa.

Lemieux, Adwoa. 1988. "The contact duet as a paradigm for client/therapist interaction." Masters Thesis in Dance Movement Therapy, Naropa Institute.

Mann, Carla. 1996. "Conversations with dance improvisers: How contact improvisation and choreographic improvisation can affect personal and cultural values." Masters Thesis for Liberal Arts, Wesleyan University.

Novack, Cynthia Jean. 1986. "Sharing the dance: an ethnography of contact improvisation." Ph.D. Thesis for Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University.

Schaffman, Karen. 1995. "Eye witness the rhizome." Written for a "Writing Choreographies" seminar, University of California at Riverside.

_______. 1997. "Fleshing out: contact improvisation and feminist phenomenology." Written for a "Writing Choreographies" seminar, University of California at Riverside.

_______. 1996. "The Politics of Intimacy: Negotiating through a contact jam." Written for a graduate seminar class, University of California at Riverside.

Walter, Annette. 1992. "Entwicklungs - und wahrnehmungs theoretische Grundlagen der Kontakt Improvisation." Diplomarbeit im Fach Sportwissenschaften der Universitat Hamburg. (In German)

Wilson, Timothy Robert. 1985. "The effect of creative movement and contact improvisation experiences on self-awareness." Doctor of Education dissertation, University of Houston, Texas.

Contact related

Karman, Shira. 1979. "Touch in Therapy: Its use, its power." Final Project, Independent Study Program, Lesley College Graduate Study.

Books

Contact history and culture

Banes, Sally. 1993. Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater1962-1964. Durham and London: Duke's University Press.

__________. 1980. Terpsichore in Sneakers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Novak, Cynthia J. 1990. Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press.

Ramsay, Margaret Hupp. 1991. The Grand Union (1970-1976). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

Judson Church biographies, journals, and monographs

Hay, Deborah. 1994. Lamb at the Altar: The Story of a Dance. Durham and London: Duke University press.

Carter, Curtis L., ed. 1997. DanceFindings: Robert Ellis Dunn Videodance Installation. Monograph with contributions by Sally Banes, Danielle Belec, Mary E. Edsall, Jon Erikson, Bill Horrigan and Tom Strini. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.

Charlip, Remy. 1986. The First Remy Charlip Reader. Northampton, Mass.: Contact Editions.

Contact-related: mind/body books

Adler, Janet. 1995. Arching Backward. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International.

Bainbridge Cohen, Bonnie. 1993. Sensing, Feeling, and Action. Northampton, Mass.: Contact Editions.

Hartley, Linda. 1995 (1989). Wisdom of the Body Moving. An Introduction to Body-Mind Centering. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Press.

Johnson, Don Hanlon. 1983. Body: Recovering Our Sensual Wisdom. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.

Johnson, Don Hanlon. 1994. Body, Spirit and Democracy. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.

Johnson, Don Hanlon. 1995. Bone, Breath & Gesture.: Practices of Embodiment. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.

Johnson, Don Hanlon. 1997. Groundworks.: Narratives of Embodiment. Berkeley, Calif..: North Atlantic Press.

Knaster, Mirka. 1996. Discovering the Body`s Wisdom. New York.: Bantam Books.

Matt, Pamela. 1993. A Kinesthetic Legacy: The Life and Works of Barbara Clark.: Tempe, AZ. CMT Press.

Olsen, Andrea. 1991. BodyStories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy. Barrytown, NY.: Station Hill Press.

Steinman, Louise. The Knowing Body. 1995. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Press.

Dance improvisation: techniques and history

Halprin, Anna. 1995. Moving Towards Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance. Rachel Kaplan, ed. Hanover and London: University press of New England and Wesleyan University Press.

Blom, Lynne Anne and L. Tarin Chaplin. 1988. The Moment of Movement: Dance Improvisation. Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Morgenroth, Joyce. 1987. Dance Improvisation. Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Nagrin, Daniel. 1994. Dance and the Specific Image. Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Schneer, Georgette. 1994. Movement Improvisation: In the Words of a Teacher and Her Students. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics.

Magazines, Journals and Newsletters of interest to Contact Improvisors

Contact Quarterly, a vehicle for moving ideas. Contact Quarterly, P.O. Box 603, Northampton, Mass. 01061 USA

Contact Connection, the national newsletter for Contact Improvisation. c/o 37A Cecilia Road, London, E8 2ER England

Dance Research.The Journal of the Society for Dance Research. Journals Subscriptions Department, Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK

Dance Ink. (magazine) 145 Central Park West, New York, New York 10023 USA (no longer in print)

Dance Scope . (journal) American Dance Guild c/o Xerox University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106 USA (no longer in print)

El Boletin. Contact Improvisacion. (newsletter) Estrada 1556, Martinez - (1640) Buenos Aires, Argentina

I.D.E.A. log. International dance exchange of Amsterdam. (journal) c/o Christina Svane, Ruysdaelkade 25/ii, 1072 AH Amsterdam, Holland

The Improvisor. The International Journal of Free Improvisation. (journal) 1705 12th St. South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205 USA

Less hot Air on Dance. A Magazine About Improvisation. (journal) c/o Loring, 215 Wyckoff Street. Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA

Movement Research:Performance Journal. Movement Research Inc., 179 Varick Street., New York City, New York 10014 USA

New Performance. (journal) Oberlin Dance Collective, ODC Performance Gallery, 223 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94110 USA (no longer in print)

A Moving Journal. Ongoing Expressions of Authentic Movement. 168 Fourth Street, Providence, Rhode Island, 02906 USA

Nouvelles de Danse. (journal) Contradanse, Maison du Spectacle/la Bellone, asbl 46, rue de Flandre 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique. (In French)

TDR The Drama Review. (journal) MIT Press, 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, Mass. 02142 USA

The Twist (student newspaper & journal) School for New Dance Development, Theaterschool Amsterdam, Da Costakade 102, 1053 WPK Amsterdam, Holland

Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th floor, New York City, New York 10003 USA

Writings on Dance. (journal) P.O. Box 1172, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia

Articles in books, journals, magazines, and newsletters

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Banes, Sally. "Steve Paxton: Physical Things" Dance Scope Winter/Spring 1979. Vol. 13/ Numbers 2 and 3.

Bents, Folkert. An interview with Steve Paxton, exerpts from a verbatim transcript of 6 hours of conversation. Theatre Papers: The Fourth Series (1981-1982): 2-27. Devon, England: Dartington College of Arts.

Cooper Albright, Ann. "Dancing Across Difference: Experience and Identity in the Classroom." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory #11 6/1: 1993.

__________. "Writing the Moving Body: Nancy Stark Smith and the Hieroglyphs." Frontiers: a journal of women's studies X/3 (1989): 38-51.

Elias, Ellen. "Playing Toward a New Culture." Bread and Roses, A Women's Journal of Issues and the Arts (1984): 17-19. Madison, Wisconsin.

Gamble, John. "On Contact Improvisation." The Painted Bride Quarterly 4/1 (Spring 77). Philadelphia, Penn.

Furse, Anna. "Body Politics." New Dance 17 (New Year 1981): 8-11.

Knaster, Mirka. (1996). "Contact Improvisation." Discovering the Body's Wisdom. Bantam Books: 258-260.

Lepkoff, Daniel. "Improvisation Festival After Thoughts: A Review of My Own Audiencing." Movement Research Performance Journal #10 (Winter/Spring 1995).

Lihs, Harriet R. "Contact Improvisation: Emotional Stretching Through Dance." Dance Teacher Now (May/June 1994): 53-57.

Luger, Eleanor Rachel. "A Contact Improvisation Primer." Dance Scope 12/1 (1977-78). New York City, N.Y.: American Dance Guild.

Nelson, Lisa. "The sensation is the image. Its what dancing is to me." Writings on Dance 14 (Summer 1995/1996): 4-15.

Novack, Cynthia J. "Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco." TDR. The Drama Review - a journal of performance studies. Vol. 32, Number 4 (T120), (Winter 1988).

__________ "Contact Improvisation: A Photo Essay and Summary Movement Analysis." TDR. The Drama Review 32/4 (T120) (Winter 1988: 120-134.

Paxton, Steve. "L'?phem?re, par-d?la le temps." Nouvelles de danse No 15 (mars 1993): 8-12. Brussels, Belgium. (In French)

__________ and Aat Hougee. "Steve Paxton and Aat Hougee in Conversation." Movement Research Performance Journal #11 (fall 1995).

__________ and Anne Kilcoyne. "On the Braille in the Body: An account of the Touchdown Dance integrated workshops with the visually impaired and the sighted." Dance Research XI/1, Spring 1993.

Rainer, Yvonne. "Backwater: Twosome Paxton and Moss." Danscope (Winter/ Spring 1979) 13/2 and 3: 8-10.

Rubidge, Sarah. "Steve Paxton." Dance Theatre Journal (Winter 1986): 2-19. London, England.

Ryan, Peter. "Contact Improvisation in Canada 1974-95." Dance Connection (Sept.-Oct. 1995): 16-24. Alberta, Canada.

Stark Smith, Nancy. "Where Nothing is Beside the Point: Contact Improvisation at Naropa Institute." Naropa Bulletin (Fall '82-Winter '83): 3.

Shimizu, Chie. 1997. "Contact Improvisation: Backgrounds and factors." Published study. Japan: Dept. of Health and Phys. Ed., Fukuoka University of Education. (In Japanese with English abstract)

Tolley, Julie. "Questions about Contact." New Dance 18 (Spring '81): 6.

Thompson, MJ. "Get Down Uncle Sam: Doing the Dance of Democracy." (Book review of Sharing the Dance.) Dance Connection (Sept.-Oct. 1995): 52 & 48. Alberta, Canada.

Prestige, Mary. "Conjugations in the surface tense, A product of a process of a product." (reflections on a performance by Lisa Nelson and Christina Svane) New Dance 18 (Spring 81): 6.

Quinn, Pamela. "Conversations on Contact, an interview with Mangrove." New Performance 1/1: 8-18.

Williams, David. Working (in) the In-Between: Contact improvisation as an ethical practice." Writings on Dance: the French Issue (Winter 1996): 22-37.

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Aposhyan, Susan. "Natural Intelligence. The Application of Body-Mind Centering to Psychotherapy". Self-published by author @ 2218 Edgewood Drive, Boulder, Colorado 80304 USA.

Davida, Dena. 1997 (updated version). "Dancing the Body Eclectic: A Dance Curator Reflects on Culture and the New Dance." Canadian Dance Studies 2. Toronto, Ontario: Dance Department of York University.