Alzheimer's will teach you to look at things in a different way, with more flexibility, like improv dance. The only "rule" is truly paying attention and letting the rhythm of the moment move you ...

Leslie Parker: “I think of Black Dance Improvisation as a way of approaching a dance aesthetic that gives more space for the relevance of Black and brown bodies and the histories that they bring into ...

Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

His torso gleaming with sweat, 6-foot-2 Jones Welsh is surprisingly agile as he hurls himself around the floor to the techno sounds of Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. He does a one-armed cartwheel ...

Oberlin College will welcome 270 dancers from around the world and host hundreds of practitioners of contact improvisation during a five-day festival from July 7-11. Critical Mass: CI@50 celebrates 50 ...

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...

Somewhere between the door of the dance studio and the stretching exercises, the dancers let their "have tos" and the "musts" fall on the floor. They let go of schedules and to-do lists, their ...

Velocity Dance Center has announced the 31st annual Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation (SFD+I) happening across the city this summer July 14- August 11, 2024. With a deep history in radical ...

Street dancer Angyil and battle rapper Reverse discuss how improvisation improves their art on the latest Beyond the Ordinary podcast episode. One of the most valuable skills to have as a competitive ...

Sun 6/12-Sun 6/19, various venues and times, information at 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, tickets at 312-369-8330, colum.edu/dancecenter, $10-$20 per show, fest passes $27-$58. The Reader is free.

One of the most valuable skills to have as a competitive dancer, or battle rapper, is the ability to improvise to whatever music or beat the DJ plays. This was the topic discussed with street dancer ...