Contact Improv Consent Culture — A blog/advocacy site dedicated to promoting consent, ethical behavior, power-dynamics awareness, and safety in the contact-improvisation community — urging respectful, consensual dance practices.
contactimprovconsentculture.com
CI Global Calender – Find information about Contact Improvisation events worldwide (classes, jams, workshops, festivals and more)
Jam guidelines collection — collection of links to guidelines and related resources for contact improvisation jams from all over the world.
A Compendium of CI Jam Guidelines
Contact Quarterly (CQ) — A long-established journal and resource for improvisational dance and CI, offering articles, research, historical context, and worldwide community connection on CI practice and theory.
Material for the Spine — A movement-study system created by pioneer of CI Steve Paxton, focusing on spinal awareness and somatic training — exploring how skeletal structure, gravity and reflex inform movement quality in dance.
Steve Paxton – Steve Paxton has researched the fiction of cultured dance and the “truth” of improvisation for 55 years. And is the founder of CI.
Nancy Stark Smith – This website is a resource and archive for Nancy Stark Smith’s work
The Underscore — A long-form dance-improvisation “score” for CI and free dance developing over decades: provides structure through phases of group flow, supporting deep collective improvisation and embodied composition.
Tuning Scores — A movement-improvisation framework and research-based tool for real-time compositional dance and somatic exploration, guiding dancers to explore sensory awareness, structure, and communal improvisation.
Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP / article on Naropa Magazine) — a dance-meditation practice founded by Barbara Dilley at Naropa University: it blends seated meditation, personal awareness movement, and open improvisational dance, inviting participants to explore embodiment, mindfulness and group-improvisation in a structured yet open container.
Videos van Matan Levkowich – Contact Improvisation Breakdowns – looking at a dance, naming principles in action