Here you will find a selected non exhaustive collection of material which inspires us.
Links of websites to articles, texts, videos, artists. The references are in english, french and spanish.

About Contact Improvisation

TO READ

Magazines online

> About Steve Paxton, Thinking Dance by Lisa Kraus. 20.11.14

> Contact Collaborations, inc. CQ, a vehicle for moving ideas, Contact Editions, Videoda. USA.

> Edition Contredanse Publications. Revue Nouvelles de danse et Livres. Belgium.

> Karen Nelson/ español

> Proximity magazine. Australia. Writings on CI, New Dance, movement improvisation.

> Steve Paxton. Entrevista diario EL PAIS

> Steve Paxton. Interview for SHIFT Japanese magazine

> Steve Paxton. NYTIMES

> Tribute to Steve Paxton

Texts online

> Daniel Lepkoff. Contact Improvisation: A Question? May 2008..

> Daniel Lepkoff. The movement of Attention, interview by Simone Forti. December 2005.

> Daniel Lepkoff. Contact Improvisation or What happens when I focus my attention on the sensation of gravity, the earth, and my partner?: A question? December 1998.

> Dieter Heitkamp. Assisted Levitation or the Dissolution of gravity. September 1998.

> Marina Tampini. El uso de los sentidos: la experiencia del CI. Revista DCO.

> Nancy Stark Smith. One History of Contact Improvisation. August 2005.

> Nita Little. The Geometry of the Attention. 2010.

> Nita Little. Articulating presence. December 2009.

> Nita Little. Dancing out of Bounds. January 2008.

> Nita Little. Anchoring. 2007.

> More info about CI bibliography. Planéte Contact. CA.

TO WATCH ONLINE

> Cuerpo Caracol . Steve Paxton

> Steve Paxton. In a non wimpy way Interview by Bojana Cvejic and Lennart Labarenz.

> Steve Paxton. Discussing Magnesium CI36 2008.

> Steve Paxton. Excerpt interview about The Small Dance by Nathan Wagoner. 2008.

> Steve Paxton. Interview by Fernando Neder. Part 1. January 2006.

> Steve Paxton. Interview by Fernando Neder. Part 2. January 2006.

> Steve Paxton. Interview by Fernando Neder. Part 3. January 2006.

About Improvisation & Dance

TO READ

> Interview Text : Lisa Nelson and Olive Beringa.

> The Dancer as Agent Collection.

Magazines online

> Joao Fiadeiro. Real time composition. Introduction/Presentation/Operative System.

> Lisa Nelson. In correspondence with Lisa Nelson. January 2008.

> Lisa Nelson. Before your eyes. 2003.

TO WATCH ONLINE

> Chrysa Parkinson. Self interview about practice.

> Steve Paxton: Talk at the Walker 12.02.2015

> Steve Paxton. Solo @CI25

> Steve Paxton: Talk, a Short History of Dance From an Outsider’s Point of View @ Španski borci, 13/04/2014

> Lisa Nelson. Connected Dance, video 1.

> Lisa Nelson. Connected Dance, video 2.

> Video.Resonancias Discursiva. UNA. Español

Talks

> Anna Halprin. An excerpt from the feature documentary, Artists in Exile: A Story of Dance in San Francisco.

> Anna Halprin. Cotinuum Movement present Moving legends. Conversation with Emilie Conrad. Part 1-7. November 2010.

> Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Cotinuum Movement present Moving legends. Conversation with Emilie Conrad. Part 1-8. July 2011.

> Eva Korzac. Talk : The conscious body:an interdisciplinary dialogue. Laboratoire d’excellence Arts et Médiations humaines. Université Paris VIII. October 2012.

> Jerome Bel. Catalogue Raisonné. 1994; 1995; 1997; 1998; 2000; 2001; 2004; 2005.

> Joao Fiaderio. De la composition en temps réel. Conversation et Performance. Fin du Stage Centre National de la Danse Paris. Octobre 2004.

> Lisa Nelson. Talk : The conscious body:an interdisciplinary dialogue. Laboratoire d’excellence Arts et Médiations humaines. Université Paris VIII. October 2012.

> Lisa Nelson. Moving viewers. Interview DanceTech. February 2008.

> Merce Cunningham & John Cage. Chance Conversations. Walker Art Center. 1981.

> Simone Forti. Talk. Otis Visiting Artist. April 2010.

> Steve Paxton. Talk : The conscious body:an interdisciplinary dialogue. Laboratoire d’excellence Arts et Médiations humaines. Université Paris VIII. October 2012.

> Steve Paxton. About reasons to be a mover. December 2009.

> Steve Paxton. Material for the spine. Treiler. Ed Contredanse. 2008.

> Yvonne Rainer & Sally Bones. Talking Dance. Walker Art Center. October 2011.

Performance

> Steve Paxton. Material for the spine. Excerpt. September 2007.

> Jurij Konjar. Goldberg variations.

AUDIO

> Steve Paxton. Talk in Reina Sofia April 2015

> Lisa Nelson. Myriam Van Imschoot speaking to Lisa Nelson in Café Beaubourg.

> Chrysa Parkinson. The value of Dance as a Practice. 30.04.16

About Art & Life

TO READ & TO WATCH

> Jean Luc Nancy. Texto Aliteraciones. Español

> Jean Luc Nancy. Texto. Aisthesis: el arte y el cuerpo. Español

> Paul Valery. La Filosofia de la danza. Español

> Allan Kaprow. La Vie et L’Art. Talk. Palais de Tokyo. Paris.

> Dan Graham. in Conversation with Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles. Walker Art Center. November 2009.

> Ernesto Neto. Artist, Brazil.

> Erwin Wurm. Artist, Austria.

> Fabiana Barreda. Artist, Argentina.

> Fluxus. Art Mouvement.

> Franz Erhard Walter. Paroles d’artistes collections contemporaines English and French. Centre Pompidou. January 2012.

> Franz Erhard Walter. Entretien. Centre Pompidou. Novembre 2011.

> Franz West. Artist, Austria. Website in french.

> Jana Sterback. Artist, Czech.

> Javier Perez. Artist, Vasc.

> John Cage. About silence. Talk. NYC. April 1991.

> Lucy Orta & Jorge Orta. Studio Orta.

> Marcel Duchamp. Interview in English and French.1966.

> Marina Abramovic. Artist, Serbie.

> Olafur Eliasson. Artist, Denmark.

> Pablo Reinoso. Artist, Argentina.

> Rebecca Horn. Artist, Germany.

> Robert Filliou. Expo Génie sans talent aux Musée d’art moderne de Lille et Article: Le principe d’équivalence, revue proteus.

> Robert Filliou. Génie sans talent. 2003/2004.

> André Lepecki. Talk: Theories of embodiment in performance studies / A Lecture about Performance and Corporeality in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland.

> Giorgio Agamben. On Bio Politics. Francais english sub

> Giorgio Agamben. Vers une theorie de la puissance destituante. Francais

> Marina Abramovic. Talk: On art, performance, time and nothingness. @Royal College of Music 11.09.14.

> Suely Rolnik. Seminario Internacional Perder la Forma Humana. Un experimento de reactivación.

> Ulay. Interview Text