Contact Quarterly: CQ is a journal for moving ideas. It's roots come from Contact Improvisation but it now covers a far wider range of movement (including all the topics covered on this site) .By the way the title is somewhat misleading, it is no longer quarterly, it now publishes twice a year. $7 a copy. POB 603 Northampton, MA 01061 413 586 1181.

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<proximity> is published quarterly in Australia. International subscriptions available.Subscribers can list classes, workshops, performances for free.Advertising space is also available at reasonable rates.Deadline for advertising for September Edition - August 26th<proximity> is open for contributions relating to movement practices outside of traditional contemporary and classical techniques (unless your writings are about extending these practices). In particular it has a focus on movement improvisation and contact improvisation. It aims to encourage people to examine and articulate their practices in these and other related fields.

Some of the articles that have appeared in past issues have been on:Skinner Releasing Technique and Improvisation, Deborah Hay's Conscious Community Dance, interviews with Nancy Stark Smith and Martin Keogh,language and movement, teaching improvisation, explorations of body during pregnancy, contact improvisation as conversation, Martial and Performance arts Body-Mind Centering, news and events in Australia and New Zealand.

For more information about <proximity>go to --- <http://www.slightly.net> and follow the links to <proximity>

A Newsletter for People in the field of Creative Dance. This newsletter serves as a forum for Mettler-based creative dance. International Association for Creative Dance, 103 Princeton Ave, Providence, RI 02907 401 521 0546.

Tamalpa Drum Newsletter for those interested in Tamalpa's movement based expressive arts therapy. POB 794 Kentfield, CA 94914. 415 457 8555.

Action Theatre Articles on Action Theatre.

Simone Forti and the Emergence of Performance Art  

  The Twist. On line magazine published by the School for New Dance Development in the Netherlands.

Movement Research Journal

What is Butoh?

Who is Anna Halprin?

Healing the Mountain by Anna Halprin

Authentic Movement 3 definitions.

Creative Movement Articles originally published in Dance Teacher Now.

Interactive Theater

What is Biodanza?

Mixed Ability Dancing Dance for people with and without disabilities

 Dancing the World Awake by Janet Day

Dance Improvisation

The Moment of Movement:Dance Improvisation by Lynne Anne Blom and L Tarin Chaplin, $14.95 "Lucid presentation of 200 examples for students of movement improvisation, beginning and advanced. Speaks clearly to young teachers." -Steve Paxton.

 Dance and the Specific Image:Improvisation by Daniel Nagrin $19.95 Advanced material.( For a review click here.) (New by Daniel Nagrin , The Six Questions)

 Dance Improvisation by Joyce Morgenroth

Moving Towards Life: Five Decades of Transformational Dance by Anna Halprin ". Here all in one place, are documents of the theory and practice that have made Anna Halprin a magnet for generations of experimental dancers..." -Elizabeth Zimmer, Dance Editor The Village Voice.

Movement Improvisation :In the Words of a Teacher and Her Students by Georgette Schneer. For a full description click here. 

A Moving Experience: Dance for Lovers of Children and the Child Within. by Teresa Benzwie. Expressive and improvisational movement activities for children. $29.00

No Handicap to Dance:Creative Improvisation for People With and Without Disabilities. Since I started doing Improvisational dance, I've been able to see something that I never consiously knew before- that it turns out most people in our society are disabled, there are those who are physically disabled (easy to spot), and then most of the rest are disabled in a way much harder to see without a trained eye- emotionally disabled. For those of us who have been through enough 'Human Potentials' work (which, in my opinion, is what the best improvisational dance teachers are really doing), you start to notice how disabled we are in showing emotions towards each other. I 'm starting to think that the only strong emotion that it is acceptible to show in public in our society (outside of special situations like death or illness where grief and tears are acceptable for that moment and only for that moment) is laughter. In this book I saw a picture of one of the participants in an excersize of sharing weight on the back of another participant, who had a look of 'bliss' on his face. In my opinion this world needs a lot more excersizes that give us permission to get to that state. Available through Amazon.com.

Dance as a Healing Art  by Anna Halprin.(150 pages) A useful guide to working with movenent and creative expression with people with cancer and other life threatning illnesses.Though subtitled as A Teachers Guide and Support Manual for People with cancer, it has applications for all populations dealing with life threatning illnesses (Anna has also for instance done a lot of dance work with HIV positive populations.)Includes scores for a ten week series of classes. $20.00 (add $3.00 shipping)from Anna Halprin 15 Ravine Way, Kentfield Ca 94904.

  Wing It Press: Publishing arm of the Body Wisdom people. Books are Having It All : Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last, Body & Soul : Excursions in the Realm of Physicality and Spirituality and Wisdom of the Body. Performance videos also available.

  Seattle Creative dance Center-Music for Creative Dance, Creative dance for all ages 

ACTION THEATER: THE IMPROVISATION OF PRESENCE

"I feel that theater is a place where you can express extreme emotions;from the time of the ancients, it has been a place where intense passions can be manifest. That's part of what theater is about, and I enjoy that. But I also feel that the question of expressing feelings in the theater is linked to something political. I sense that there's a kind of increasing need to repress emotions, to cancel and neutralize emotions. I'm very aware of certain emotions. I'm very aware of certain emotions being forbidden little by little, more and more. Not all feelings are taboo. Anything in the range of anger is okay, for example. But I have the sense that if a person in a room with other people expresses real tenderness, or a certain kind of wonder, or mourning, that person usually is in the way. One can refer to mourning, or tenderness, or wonder. But certain kinds of direct, emotional expression have no place.-"Joseph Chaikin

 Books on other forms of Improvisation

Free Play:Improvisation in Life and Art: Improviastion from the viewpoint of music.( to read this books introductory chapter click here)

 Acting Improvisation Booklist

  Anthropocosmic Theatre  The research, design and production of participatory theatre offers the spectator a cultural dynamic which with five minutes of instruction trains him and sustains him so that he can have his own experience, because at this stage of evolution we cannot ignore the fact that the vitality and internal spell of any artistic manifestation is no longer the heritage of any particular group or clan, but rests beneath the skin of any human being.

Amazon.com book ordering information

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