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The Future of Contact Improvisation: Amanda Abrams Interviews Nancy Stark Smith

Contact improvisation—a movement form based on weight-sharing—was created by Steve Paxton and first performed by him and several students at Oberlin College in 1972. Nancy Stark Smith was among the...

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