It is an article by Cynthia Jean Cohen Bull called “Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco” from
an anthology of essays called moving history/dancing cultures: A Dance History Reader edited by Ann Dils & Ann Cooper
Albright, published by Weleyan University Press in 2001.
How are you contexting Contact Improvisation (C1) as dance, and as social dance. Is it making sense to you as an
improvisatory form? What value does it have performatively? Non-performatively? As always, specific in-class examples
are appreciated as weil as references to any course materials (articles. videos) posted.
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