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This is a 4-minute section of a 17-minute improvisation that
Fred Holland and I performed at the Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church, NYC in 1983 at the 15th anniversary of Contact
Improvisation. Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith performed on the same program. For Fred and me our score was to do everything
wrong and still technically be doing a Contact Improv duet. The things we were doing wrong were:
1.
We were Black
2. We wore our "street" clothes, (as opposed to sweats)
3. We
wore heavy shoes, Fred, construction boots; me Army
4. We spoke to each other
5. We fucked
with flow; intentionally interrupted ourselves
6. We used a recorded sound score, (a loud looping from Kung
Fu movies by Mark Allen Larson
7. We stayed out of physical contact much of the time.
Cathy Weis
shot this video.
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