Kinetic Thoughts – Writings on Contact Improvisation

acceleration anatomy autonomy awareness beginner body paradigm breath centre centre to periphery choice community conversation core integration counterthrust deceleration distributing weight duality effort exertion falling flow folding gravity hearing impulse integration Laban labbing learning lightness lingering listening momentum motility natural forces perception performance physics poem pulse questions recuperation responsiveness rhythm safety sense of being senses sensing skeleton softness spatial disorientation spectrum spirals stillness suspension sustainment sweat teaching tensegrity tension textile timing tone transferal of force transferal of weight unpredictability versatility vision warm-up weight