Here are some resources for creating a more ethical culture for Contact Improvisation as well as some articles on sociocultural perspectives that impact Contact Improvisation culture.
Contact Improvisation & Dance
- Alexia Buono – Teacher education in CI, What does teacher education have to do with safer dance spaces (part 1 of 2)
- Alexia Buono – Teacher education in CI (part 2 of 2)
- Brooks Yardley – Respecting Boundaries : Coexisting Genders, Women’s Experiences of Feeling Unsafe in Contact Improv
- Kathleen Rea – The Newcomer Experience in Contact Dance Improvisation
- Kathleen Rea – “That lady”: The story of what happened when a woman put up a boundary in the contact improv world
- Kathleen Rea – Contact Improvisation Jam Boundary Guidelines
- Kathleen Rea – Contact Improvisation, In Service of the Dance
- Megan Emerson – The Stages of Consent Culture for Dance Communities
- Michele Beauliex – How the First Rule Brought #MeToo to Contact Improvisation
- Sarah Gottlieb – Myths to Break Down: Moving Toward Ethical Communication and Ethical Sexuality in CI
- Sarah Gottlieb – A response to a reader regarding Myths to Break Down
- Sarah Gottlieb – Myth #4: It’s okay to heal me with contact improv
- Sarah Gottlieb – Myth #5: I can handle it myself
- Sarah Gottlieb – Myth #6: Written guidelines keep CI spaces safe (Part 1 of 2)
- Sarah Gottlieb – A Helpful Supplement to Myth #6: “It’s just not my thing” — addressing facilitator doubts (Part 2 of 2)
- West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam – 2017 Inclusivity Statement
- West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam – Contact Improvisers Consider #metoo – Dancers’ Group
- West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam – Jam Guidelines & Protocol for Boundary Violations
Ability
- Mia Mingus – Moving Toward the Ugly : A Politic Beyond Desirability | Leaving Evidence
- Eli Clare – Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies, Disability and Queerness
- Janae Elisabeth – The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence, Part 1: Lost in Translation
- Janae Elisabeth – The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence, Part 2: Found in Translation
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha – Cripping the Apocalypse
- Nick Walker – Somatics and Autistic Embodiment
Appropriation
- Jarune Uwujaren – The Difference Between Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation
Class
Gender/Sexuality
- Evin Taylor – Cisgender Privilege, On the Privileges of Performing Normative Gender
- CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Straight People
- CO Anti-Violence Program – Privileges Held by Non-Trans People
Race
- Jennifer Loubriel – 4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
- John Dovidio & Samuel Gaertner – Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? The Pernicious Nature of Contemporary Racism
- Maria P P Root – A Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage
- Shin Yin Khor – What Would Yellow Ranger Do?
- Tema Okun – White Supremacy Culture