Researching contact improvisation was a great learning experience. This project made me realize that contact improvisation is a form that will always change with the times. This makes it interesting and unique at all times. My favorite part of this form is that each person involved can get something different out of the experience. The improvisers can be thinking about their own goals of exploration that can be different from each other. The audience also gain information, but it may not necessarily be the same thoughts or ideas the dancers are thinking about. At the time contact improvisation was established this was not seen in dance. Typically everyone knew exactly what was happening and why it was happening, but now it was open to everyone’s …show more content…
Some participants did it as a fun way to interact social, while others used it to develop choreography. To me this proves that contact improvisation can be whatever you want it to be. With both versions it is about expressing your creativity to form art. I still believe that it was remarkable how Steve Paxton developed these concepts in a time where no one else was thinking about it. His ideas were not codified like other technique but there important concepts and prompts. For example, the ability to control your own weight while supporting others. It is important to be able to arrange yourself so that you are in proper alignment for what is going to happen next. Another part of this is being able to trust the people you are improvising with. From reading what Nancy Stark Smith explained in her experience, when she had to improvise with people for a longer period of time they would spend time together outside of the studio to build a stronger relationships?
Another interesting aspect of contact improvisation is the political side of the form. Contact improvisation became a revolutionary movement style that went against all boundaries that were set in other dance forms. In the “Interior Techniques” article Robert Turner talked about how people in society during the 70s were conditioned to do the same thing as everyone else. Whenever one was in public they had to