#contact improvisation

Maurizio Zanon è nato nel 1954 a Venezia dove attualmente risiede. Il presente volume è inserito nella collana Analisi Poetica Sovranazionale del terzo millennio di Guido Miano Editore. Il titolo di questo libro coglie nel segno riportando esplicitamente quella che dovrebbe essere la funzione costruttiva della poesia e cioè quella di dovere aprire esteticamente ed eticamente attraverso la…

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Rest easy into the ground of everything, Steve Paxton. You moved me in a different direction. For ever.

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" I want one word on my tombstone - dancer."

STEVE PAXTON :: 1939 - 2024

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"You've been swimming in gravity since the day you were born. Every cell knows where down is. Easily forgotten. Your mass and the earth's mass calling to each other."

[From Steve's book "Gravity"]

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“If people ask me how to Contact Improvise, I simply say, “Start small” or, “Start small for a long time.”

After fifty years of all this, I realize I should have said,

“Go beyond small to the place where no message is being given. Start there. Let small be the first of the pleasures to come.” Accept the first perturbation of that emptiness as the focus of the next moments. It is not a dance about you, or your partner. It is a dance about its movement.

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Jan. 1, 2022

“I was trying to understand what makes integrity in movement,”

Steve Paxton, June 2004 on Dance Magazine.