Endings and Beginnings—Episode 12, December

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Points of Contact—CI reflections with Carolyn Stuart

Host: Eric Nordstrom

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Over the course of a year (2024), I’ll interview Carolyn Stuart once a month. We’ll dive into her experience, philosophy, and teachings of Contact Improvisation. Look for a new episode the last day of each month. A devotee of Contact Improvisation since 1984, Carolyn’s research and development of the dance form spans 17 countries, hundreds of projects, and diverse populations. The current edge of her investigation is applying the principles of the C.I. paradigm to life at large. For writings by Carolyn Stuart: www.contactgames.wordpress.com Cover photo by Gregory Bartning

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Endings and Beginnings—Episode 12, December

Points of Contact—CI reflections with Carolyn Stuart

27 minutes 51 seconds

11 months ago

Endings and Beginnings—Episode 12, December

Welcome to our 12th episode of Points of Contact, the podcast where we explore the dance from of Contact Improvisation and so much more with Carolyn Stuart. In this concluding episode of Season 1, we reflect on the insights and experiences shared throughout the series. We also look to beginnings, as I start my journey into parenthood and grad school. Carolyn is starting to feeling into what a season two may look like.

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A devotee of Contact Improvisation since 1984, Carolyn’s research and development of the dance form spans 17 countries, hundreds of projects, and diverse populations. Her primary teachers have been commitment to the process of exploration and the use of the blindfold. Her mission is to make contact improvising accessible by distilling the vastness of possibility into the simplest of terms. The current edge of her investigation is applying the principles of the C.I. paradigm to life at large. If mutual well-being is possible on the dance floor, then what about off the dance floor too—for the generations to come! Writings by Carolyn Stuart can be found at: ⁠www.contactgames.wordpress.com⁠

Your host, Eric Nordstrom is a dance performer, filmmaker, and teacher living in Portland, Oregon. He teaches in the Dance Program at Lewis and Clark College and has taught at contact festival Freiburg in Germany, the Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation, and Conduit Dance. He has performed with Karen Nelson, Keith V. Goodman, and was a core company member of Oslund + Company. To help preserve Portland dance history, Eric created a documentary film Moving History: Portland Contemporary Dance Past and Present. To centralize and preserve dance history source material, Eric has partnered with Portland State University to create the Portland Dance Archives. He studied with filmmaker Mitchell Rose and choreographer Bebe Miller at The Ohio State University, where he earned his MFA in Dance. For more information about Eric Nordstrom: ⁠www.eric-nordstrom.com⁠

Photo by Gregory Bartning