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Article: UO to host contact improvisation dance events.(Entertainment)

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The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
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December 5, 2004
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Dancers Nancy Stark Smith and Peter Bingham will be featured next weekend in two contact improvisation events at the University of Oregon: a performance at 8 p.m. Friday and a focused jam from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.

Both events will be in the Dougherty Dance Theater on the third floor of Gerlinger Annex, 1484 University St.

Admission to the performance is $10 for the general public, $5 for students and senior citizens. Tickets for the jam, which is open to participants and observers, are $5.

Contact improvisation is a highly athletic dance form in which performers use gravity, momentum and balance to move ...

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