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3Intensive CuriosityIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.In this chapter, the authors explore Contact Improvisation (CI) from the point of view of teaching. They assume for purposes of argument that classes and jams are different kinds of things. Their interest is in the insights that CI classes provide about teaching and teaching improvisation in particular, and in turn what teaching CI reveals about CI as a particular kind of collective-focused research into body/mind curiosity. Their thematic conclusions are: (1) CI teaching is a continual balancin…Read more
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4Queering Contact Improvisation with Sara Ahmed (and the Wheelchair)In Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter proposes an approach to the concept of Contact Improvisation through Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology. Starting from the suggested dialogue between bodies and objects, in which the spatial and the social are intertwined, this chapter explores the term queer and the collective practice of improvisation as an experience of disorientation, co-perception, and inclination. Instead of the table invoked by Ahmed, one delights in the wheelchair, an iconic object in the history of Contact Im…Read more
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4Deviant BodiesIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter aims to discuss the practice of Contact Improvisation in Brazil from the experience of disabled bodies in Brazilian dance companies and through the legacies of choreographers such as Maria Duschenes, Steve Paxton, and Alito Alesi, among others. This text is also guided by the author’s experience of Contact Improvisation in dance companies and in their solo career as a disabled artist and educator. It proposes a critical effort on how perceptions of disability are still denied in Con…Read more
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4Contact Improvisation in China and TaiwanIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This roundtable discusses the presence and evolution of Contact Improvisation (CI) in mainland China and Taiwan. The participants come from various backgrounds from Beijing, Hangzhou, and Taiwan and share their personal journeys with CI, highlighting its introduction, development, and significance in their dance communities. They reflect on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on CI activities and the role of CI in fostering connections, trust, and spirituality in their local communities. In term…Read more
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4Making ContactIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter provides an overview of the practice of Contact Improvisation (CI) in India. Starting from tracing the introduction of the form by international teachers, it follows the emergence of local facilitators and their adaptation of the CI practice to the context of India, in order to discuss the potential of the form to challenge established norms of social interactions. The chapter briefly addresses aspects of living in India, including casteism, colonial influence on regulating the powe…Read more
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4Resistances and HorizonsIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.In this chapter, members of EPIICO collective, through collaborative writing, describe the path they have taken over the course of eight years of practicing, searching, holding encounters, and creating together around the practice of Contact Improvisation in Mexico City. The approach is built from embedded experiences, not from academic knowledge. The current members of the collective describe the struggles within the practice: their economic context, patriarchal attitudes in the dance, extracti…Read more
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4The Religious Function of Contact ImprovisationIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.While Contact Improvisation developed within a secular framework, its practice can give rise to profound religious insight. This chapter examines some of the ways that the process of experiencing CI facilitates a dancer’s capacity to perceive a connection with a larger mystery. It also explores parallels with explicitly religious traditions such as Aikido, Quakerism, and Zen Buddhism. These forms have the intention to transform their practitioners in fundamental ways which are beneficial to them…Read more
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4Something We Touch or That Touches UsIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.Using a framework of neuroplasticity and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, this chapter explores a beginner’s experience of Contact Improvisation (CI) and how it affects the mind and body over time. It makes use of personal anecdotes, data around perceptual systems, and an intersectional history of CI to hash out how this dance form affects dancers and how an informed use of these trends can contribute to an overall practice. The chapter includes the experience of writing the chapter in real time an…Read more
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4Rolling and KnowingIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter explores how Contact Improvisation and other embodied ephemeral forms endure through time. It foregrounds the physical action of rolling as it is often done in Contact Improvisation as an act of knowing, in contrast to a conventional static image of knowledge described by Tim Ingold as a logic of inversion. It develops this form of knowing in two ways, both drawing on the thinking of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. First it shows how rolling establishes a dynamic intensive system…Read more
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4XciIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.XCI (‘X’ Contact Improvisation) is proposed as an ongoing practice as research process in the interstices of contact improvisation and queer sexuality practices. This article narrates the author's practice as research process with XCI, explaining why they are committed to this approach to CI, reporting some results, and offering a theoretical background. XCI researches how sexual intimacy is embedded in CI practice. It can offer some practices to acknowledge the occurrence of the sexual in CI sp…Read more
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4Therapeutic Applications of Contact ImprovisationIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.In this chapter, the authors articulate how elements of Contact Improvisation can be adapted for a broader audience who may have limited access to the kind of interpersonal contact that humans need to thrive. Research on the therapeutic benefits of touch is interwoven with the authors’ personal and professional experiences: Brandes is a licensed psychotherapist who infuses body-based modalities and somatic education into his Body&Being sessions; Revlock is a professional dancer, educator, and th…Read more
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6Listening TouchIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter investigates foundational practices of listening touch, used in Contact Improvisation, and proposes new touch techniques where space brought into awareness to enhance empathic modes of being with and among Others. Informed by new materialist scholarship concerning the entangled nature of relationships, the author explores touch as a way of being in the world and examines listening as a haptic practice that can make possible encounters with Otherness. Building upon foundational somat…Read more
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5The Small Dances of ListeningIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.The Stand, also known as the small dance, is a form of meditation described by Steve Paxton in the early 1970s as a means of mitigating physical dangers that Contact Improvisation (CI) dancers navigate. It is now being recognized within the global CI community that the challenges being navigated are not simply physical. The ability to stabilize attention and the skills of staying awake within disorientation are increasingly challenged, yet remain critical foundations in CI. Aside from the obviou…Read more
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8Underscoring Nancy Stark Smith’s LegacyIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter explores the undercurrents of the Underscore, a group framework for dance improvisation originated by Contact Improvisation (CI) pioneer, Nancy Stark Smith (1952–2020). The author describes three experiences, including an influential encounter with Nancy Stark Smith at a weekly Underscore practice in Northampton, Massachusetts; an Underscore with 150+ participants during a 50th anniversary celebration of CI; and an Underscore posthumously honoring Nancy Stark Smith at her alma mater…Read more
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6Tracing the Natural Body for More Inclusive and Equitable CI FuturesIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.Through the legacies of somatics and modern dance, Contact Improvisation (CI) has adopted eurocentric assumptions about a presumed natural body, and these concepts have negatively impacted inclusion and equity in CI. In this chapter, the author traces the concept of the natural body through the developments of modern dance and somatics to illuminate how the natural body transmits ideas of race, gender, class, and liberation. The chapter then demonstrates how the natural body transforms into the …Read more
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4Doing It WrongIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.Taken to task and inspired by the generative intervention of Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland’s Wrong Contact Manifesto, this conversation investigates the (lost/erased/fugitive) legacies of the aesthetics of the Black radical tradition in Contact Improvisation’s history. From the contemporary cultural currency of racial optics and their effect on some Contact Improvisation communities, to deeper historical strata going back to the invention of jazz and to Fred Moten’s philosophy of blackn…Read more
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3NotIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.Contact Improvisation (CI) is often touted as an egalitarian, improvisational dance form in which neutral practitioners explore fundamental physical principles such as gravity, weight, and momentum. Perhaps this is why it looks and feels oddly similar no matter where on the planet or by whom it is being practiced. This chapter looks at the practice from a non-white, queer, nonconforming view, revealing the imprint of the ontologically expansive white culture in which CI arose (and for the most p…Read more
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3Gender, Power, and Equity in Contact ImprovisationIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This chapter argues that gendered power dynamics in Contact Improvisation (CI) negatively impact the experience of some dancers more than others, inequitably limiting access to full participation. While in its core principles, CI rejects gender roles, in practice, ideas about gender influence CI dancing in many ways. A significant number of dancers find their access to CI impeded by the effort it takes to protect themselves from gender-based power dynamics on the dance floor—including misgenderi…Read more
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4Getting There from HereIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This memoir, manifesto, and manual provide a road map for Contact Improvisation jams wanting to create “safer brave spaces”—spaces that consciously support consent culture, making being brave safer, especially for marginalized people. The author uses her experience of sexual violence in an open jam and its aftermath to contrast groups supporting rape culture and those creating consent culture. The Beaulieu Test measures whether jam guidelines prioritize looking after each other and the group and…Read more
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4Mindfully Rocking and RollingIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.This auto-ethnographic memoir of a North American dancer’s immersion into the postmodern artworld of Contact Improvisation (CI) in the 1970s and 1980s seeks to balance past and present perspectives of how and why we danced then. Now in her seventies, she brings to consciousness past sensations and beliefs by way of an archive of notes, posters, interviews, reviews, and photos and through the lens of second wave feminism. This chapter recreates events of that period in Minnesota in which the prac…Read more
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1IntroductionIn Ann Cooper Albright, Dena Davida, Michele Beaulieux, Kristin Horrigan, Joy Mariama Smith, Emma Bigé, Paul Singh, Robin Raven Prichard, Sarah Young, Lesley Greco, Rosalind Holgate Smith, Gabrielle Revlock, Aramo Olaya, Brian Schultis, Lisa Claire Greene, Carol Laursen, Ariadna Franco Martínez, Esmeralda Padilla García, Elisa Romero Morato, Mariana Torres Juárez, Laura Villeda Aguirre, Caroline Tracey, Guru Suraj, Adrianna Michalska, Ming-Shen Ku, Shuyi Liao, Xiao Zhang, Huichao Ge, Yuting Wang, Ana Carolina Bezerra Teixeira, Mª Paz Brozas Polo, Joseph Dumit & Dorte Bjerre Jensen (eds.), Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50, Oxford University Press. 2024.
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2Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50Oxford University Press. 2024.Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 is a ground-breaking anthology of twenty original writings that elucidate vitally important somatic and political perspectives on Contact Improvisation (CI), a form of partner dancing initiated in the United States in 1972 which has now spread into a vibrant global community. It is edited and includes an introduction by veteran CI practitioner and dance studies scholar Ann Cooper Albright, professor of dance at Oberlin College. For much of its e…Read more
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16DNA base pairing has been used for many years to direct the arrangement of inorganic nanocrystals into small groupings and arrays with tailored optical and electrical properties. The control of DNA-mediated assembly depends crucially on a better understanding of three-dimensional structure of DNA-nanocrystal-hybridized building blocks. Existing techniques do not allow for structural determination of these flexible and heterogeneous samples. Here we report cryo-electron microscopy and negative-st…Read more
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14Cholesteryl ester transfer protein mediates cholesteryl ester transfer from the atheroprotective high density lipoprotein cholesterol to the atherogenic low density lipoprotein cholesterol. In the past decade, this property has driven the development of CETP inhibitors, which have been evaluated in large scale clinical trials for treating cardiovascular diseases. Despite the pharmacological interest, little is known about the fundamental mechanism of CETP in CE transfer. Recent electron microsco…Read more
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7Commonly used methods for determining protein structure, including X-ray crystallography and single-particle reconstruction, often provide a single and unique three-dimensional structure. However, in these methods, the protein dynamics and flexibility/fluctuation remain mostly unknown. Here, we utilized advances in electron tomography to study the antibody flexibility and fluctuation through structural determination of individual antibody particles rather than averaging multiple antibody particl…Read more
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15Objectives: The aim of the current study was to differentiate between neural activity that represents neural anomalies that are responsible for persistent developmental stuttering from the activity that is a result of compensating for stuttering. This was done by investigating alterations to the intrinsic functional architecture of speech-language processes of patients with PDS before and after a short-term intervention. Methods: The resting-state functional connectivity and cortical thickness w…Read more
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26© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited All rights reserved. Genome-wide gene expression measurements have enabled comprehensive studies that integrate the changes of gene expression and phenotypic information to uncover their novel associations. Here we reported the association analysis between psychophysical phenotypes and genome-wide gene expression changes in human adaptation to one of the most extreme climates on Earth, the Antarctic Dome Argus. Dome A is the highest ice feature in Antarctica, …Read more
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8© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This analysis compares the climate impacts over North America during winter associated with various El Niño-Southern Oscillation indices, including the Niño 3.4 index, the leading tropical Pacific outgoing longwave radiation and sea surface temperature covariability, and the eastern Pacific and central Pacific types of ENSO identified from both partial-regression-empirical orthogonal function and regression-EOF approaches. The traditional Niño 3.4 SST index is found to b…Read more
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17Aneuploidy with chromosome instability is a cancer hallmark. We studied chromosome 7 copy number variation in gliomas and in primary cultures derived from them. We found tumor heterogeneity with cells having Chr7-CNV commonly occurs in gliomas, with a higher percentage of cells in high-grade gliomas carrying more than 2 copies of Chr7, as compared to low-grade gliomas. Interestingly, all Chr7-aneuploid cell types in the parental culture of established glioma cell lines reappeared in single-cell-…Read more
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38Theoretical investigation of the optical spectra and local lattice structure for Mn5+in a Sr106F2crystalPhilosophical Magazine 90 (9): 1213-1217. 2010.