A short talk about creating forms for embodied research, articulation, and exchange. I’ll share stories and aspects of my experience over the last 36+ years publishing Contact Quarterly dance journal and books; teaching and creating dance forms and scores practiced worldwide; as well as collaborating on the making of many conferences, formats, and forums for the exchange of dance practice and ideas within the field of postmodern/”new” dance and contact improvisation.

The trails that are left and the inter-sharing of these materials among those in the field generating them have co-created a collective history. What does a particular form elicit and convey? I will share my curiosity about these vehicles for moving ideas, how they work (and don’t work), and consider what might be needed now and in the future. There will be a little time for questions/dialogue.