Contact improvisation isn’t just dance without choreography, it’s life — a microcosm illuminating a way to be in the world. “Who you are as a person is who you are as an improviser,” says Nancy Stark ...

Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...

With every other tween-to-millennial finessing the latest TikTok routine and international dance studios garnering cult Instagram followings, hip-hop is having a real moment. Bite-sized choreography ...

Contact Improv is hard to explain to someone who has never done it, but let me try. Contact Improv: Improvisational dance with a partner. You aren't supposed to use a word in its definition, are you?

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Watching and Moving In this guide to the best virtual dance this week, a festival goes digital, and classes at Movement Research illuminate the ...

Sun 6/12-Sun 6/19, various venues and times, information at 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, tickets at 312-369-8330, colum.edu/dancecenter, $10-$20 per show, fest passes $27-$58. The Reader is free.

Street dancer Angyil and battle rapper Reverse discuss how improvisation improves their art on the latest Beyond the Ordinary podcast episode. To win those competitions was far from easy, especially ...