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Article: Teacher's wisdom: Nancy Stark Smith.(TEACH-LEARN CONNECTION)(Interview)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Since helping to create contact improvisation in the early 1970s with Steve Paxton and others, Nancy Stark Smith has been traveling the globe, teaching and performing improvisational dance. She teaches often at the Bates Dance Festival and takes time from her touring schedule to publish Contact Quarterly, a biannual journal of dance and improvisation. Kristin Horrigan spoke with Stark Smith at her home in Florence, MA.
COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT CONTACT IMPROVISATION IS? It is an exploration of the movement that's possible when two bodies are in physical contact, sharing balance, communicating through weight and momentum. You're using not only your own body and ...