Contact Improvisation

Whenever we are doing something it's useful to remember that any movement we make, any activity we engage in is a collaboration between us and the environment. If we move a chair, we too are being "moved". The chair has as least as much of an affect on us as we have on it. It's not unlike a dance where one partner leads while the other follows.

What's interesting is that although we initiate this little pas de deux, the more we can let go and allow our "partner" to shape our response, the more efficient the interaction becomes.

Our objectives and the world of objects meet in a kind of contact improvisation where the beauty and effectiveness of the moving is determined by the quality of our awareness and the quality of our awareness is determined by our willingness to pay attention to what happens to ease in us as we dance.