wcciJAM
Writings & Resources
CI in Context: Writings and Resources
Follow the links to the articles and publications below for good reads on our dancestors, the festival, CI practice, and some of the issues we face as a community of practice. Want to recommend an article or resource for inclusion here? Contact us!
About our Dancestors
Steve Paxton Remembrances FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/412075491363297
Material for the Spine
https://www.materialforthespine.com/
Nancy Stark Smith Harvest FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/253550916049874
Nance Starks Smith Website
2016 CQ article by Steve Paxton & Nancy Stark Smith
About wcciJAM
- Nhu Nguyen, Contact Quarterly
Abled, disabled, connect through DanceAbility
- Berkeley Times
WCCIJAM 2013: Talking Bay Area Contact Improvisation, Past Present & Future
- Miriam Wolodarski, inDance
Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo
- inDance
About CI
- by Megan Lowe, in Contact Quarterly
Contact Improvisers consider #metoo
- wcciJAM 2018 organizers & teachers
- CI's publication of record.
“Improvisation”
Dumit, O’Connor, Drum, and McCullough
Interview with the Fear Snuggler
- Miryam Coppersmith interviewing Eroca Nicols
- Mayfield Brooks
“Improvising within the field of settler colonialism on Indigenous land.”
Katelyn Stiles, Margit Galanter, and Kevin O’Connor
My Story about People of Color’s Contact Improvisation (POC CI) Jams and Parcon Resilience
- by Andrew Suseno, in Contact Quarterly
Myths to Break Down: Moving Toward Ethical Communication and Ethical Sexuality in CI
- Sarah Gottlieb
New York Times Review of Mangrove from 1978
- Jack Anderson
Questioning Contact Improvisation – Zine Excerpts
- Keith Hennessy
Respecting Boundaries / Coexisting Genders Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv
- Brooks Yardley
“That lady”: The story of what happened when a woman put up a boundary in the contact improv world
- Kathleen Rea
The Experiment Called Contact Improvisation
- Keith Hennessy
The Newcomer Experience in Contact Dance Improvisation
- Kathleen Rea
The Stages of Consent Culture for Dance Communities
- Megan Emerson & Portland Country Dance Community
Unmaking Contact: Choreographic Touch at the Intersections of Race, Caste, and Gender
- Mitra, Royona
About the world we live in
Wetoo: What dancers talk about when they talk about sexism
- Ilse Ghekiere
The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation
- Jarune Uwujaren
Privileges Held By Straight People
- Queers United
- Robin DiAngelo
Transphobia and Discrimination
- Trans Accessibility Project
