Contact Improvisation

Catalog description

Credits 2. 1 Lecture Hour. 3 Lab Hours. Introduction to and exploration of the principles of improvisational partnering including touch, trust, weight sharing, and non-verbal communication; experiment with non-codified/free movement in collaboration with peers including concepts of listening, responding, leading, following, pushing, and pulling; understanding principles of safe alignment and lifting; learning about the history of contact improvisation from creation to present day and understanding the social/cultural influences which shape the form. May be taken three times for credit. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.