Contact Improvisation Map

A collaborative map of Contact Improvisation practices, techniques and states. Explore 49 concepts across 5 lines: Mutuality, Awareness, Creativity, Healing, Embodiment.

Lines

Mutuality

Context loop — culture, ethics, and relational dynamics

  • Touch
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Boundaries
  • Attunement
  • Expression
  • The Jam
  • Empathy
  • Democratization of Body
  • Inclusivity
  • Care
  • Community
  • Autonomy
  • Dialogue
  • Negotiating
  • Communicating
  • Honesty
  • Consent Culture

Awareness

Horizontal axis — perception and boundaries

  • Meta- Awareness
  • Senses
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Ethics
  • Boundaries
  • Yielding
  • Attunement
  • Holding Space
  • Flow
  • The Unknown
  • Attention

Creativity

Horizontal axis — performance and exploration

  • Contact Improvisation
  • Performance
  • Observing
  • Expression
  • Researching
  • The Jam
  • Serious Play
  • Creative Agency
  • Risk
  • Improvisation

Healing

Spur — trauma, therapy, and the de-sexualization of touch

  • Witnessing
  • De-Sexualization of Touch
  • Trauma Learning
  • Somatic Therapy

Embodiment

Central spine — physicality and technique

  • Meditation
  • Small Dance
  • Empty Touch
  • Touch
  • Rolling Point of Contact
  • Senses
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Leaning
  • Sharing & Pouring Weight
  • Sliding
  • Floorwork
  • Contemporary Dance
  • Falling Together
  • Spiraling
  • Lifts
  • Acrobatics

All Stations

  • Meta- Awareness
  • Meditation
  • Small Dance
  • Empty Touch
  • Touch
  • Rolling Point of Contact
  • Senses
  • Contact Improvisation
  • Leaning
  • Sharing & Pouring Weight
  • Sliding
  • Floorwork
  • Contemporary Dance
  • Falling Together
  • Spiraling
  • Lifts
  • Acrobatics
  • Ethics
  • Boundaries
  • Yielding
  • Attunement
  • Holding Space
  • Flow
  • The Unknown
  • Performance
  • Observing
  • Expression
  • Researching
  • The Jam
  • Serious Play
  • Creative Agency
  • Risk
  • Improvisation
  • Empathy
  • Democratization of Body
  • Inclusivity
  • Care
  • Community
  • Autonomy
  • Dialogue
  • Negotiating
  • Communicating
  • Honesty
  • Consent Culture
  • Witnessing
  • De-Sexualization of Touch
  • Trauma Learning
  • Somatic Therapy
  • Attention
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A project by Fabio Gerhold

Lines

Mutuality
Awareness
Creativity
Healing
Embodiment