"I've since come to realize that the freedom improvisation offers doesn't come without bidding. Its pleasure is a discipline. In the practice of Contact Improvisation, one is constantly faced with one's tendency to make the same choices over and over again. Within the form, this tendency is countered by working in close contact with a partner who is in a position to remind you that there are options you hadn't considered. Appreciating that invitation is one of the basic challenges improvising offers." --Nancy Stark Smith, "A Subjective History of Contact Improvisation."
Michelle H. mimicking "dancerly" movements at 13:14 on Pete's video footage from day 4, Oct 8. Very intersting comments and movements here from Michelle, who says dancers are falling back on these disciplines because they're uncomfortable with new parameter. Video Log
"We also read in the discourses on improvisation allegations that improvisation, because of its bodily spontaneity, requires no technique. This, too, is a muddle and wrongly cast charge. Improvisation makes rigourous technical demands on the performer. It assumes an articulateness in the body through which the known and the unknown will find expression. It entails a vigilant porousness toward the unknown, a stance that can only be acquired through intensive practice. It depends upon the peformer's lucid familarity with the principles of composition." --Susan Leigh Foster, "Taken by Surprise."