We Rise and Fall Together, Contact Improv, Nathan Dryden, TEDx Salt Lake City

Contact Improvisation is a dance form that evolves from spontaneous communication between moving bodies in physical contact. Touch, weight, momentum, balance, and flow give it a continuously emerging shape. Its researched, taught, and performed across the world by dancers from the very birth of the form in 1972: like Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson. And carried forward by new generations of contacters. Contact Improv is open to all curious minds and bodies around the globe. From professional and social dancers, differently abled bodies, and people all ages, shapes, colors, genders, and identities, to nonhuman dancers like dogs, foam rollers, and trees. Contact Improv gives us all the freedom to explore connected movement and learn how to be human together. Choreography and Performance: Nathan Dryden in collaboration with Cole Lehman, Jasmin Stack, Joaquin Galvan, Nancy Carter, Kiera Lucich, Yasin Fairley, Dat Nguyen, Cheryl Neufville, Nora Lang Music Performan