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A Radically Unfinished Dance

Contact Improvisation in a Time of Social Distance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2021

Danielle Goldman
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Abstract

Nancy Stark Smith passed away due to ovarian cancer on 1 May 2020. Her dedication to contact improvisation for nearly half a century—as a dancer, teacher, writer, and editor—contributed to its development and will continue to inform its ongoing vitality. But much remains uncertain for the future of contact improvisation. Complicated by the challenges of Covid-19, what sort of bodies will result from the practice going forward, and how might the form itself change?

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 62 - 78
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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