Released on = February 1, 2007, 4:35 am

Press Release Author = Dance to Health

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Contact Improvisation Dance is a dance form ideally suited
to people with disabilities.

Press Release Body = What is the aim of this form of therapy? It is a quest for
self-healing through bodily movement. When we tune-in to the deepest well-springs of
our Being we move with a grace, rhythm and beauty which is unique to each
individual. Through this \"tuning-in\" process we learn new aspects of ourselves and
others without the need for the spoken word. We can attain through this means -
calm, peace, spiritual upliftment, self-confidence and greater physical energy for
ourselves and others.

Age is irrelevant. Even if participants have a restricted range of movement or are
confined to a wheelchair, it is still possible for them to join in because everyone
moves within their own level of energy output. You can dance with your fingers or
toes - with whatever part of the body has some movement.

Here is what Bruce of Berkeley California writes on Contact Improvisation: A Dance
of Equality:-

\"At the age of 17, I broke my neck while diving, which resulted in paralysis
affecting my body from my chest down. While on a March for Peace in Central
America, I learned about contact improvisation and discovered through it that people
with and without disabilities could dance together equally. Contact improvisation
allows someone disabled to become so engaged in the contact and balance with another
dancer, that the sensation supersedes the superficial image. Even though I have
limited voluntary movement throughout my body, I can create coordinated movement,
using the sensation in my body and skeleton.

The focus of the dance is on the conversation of body movement between two people.
Each person listens through that person\'s own body to the other dancer\'s movement.
As well, each person is responsible for his or her own safety in the dance and
trusts that the other will always be in the present moment, listening.

For me, it\'s important to create motion and dance that naturally emerges from a
disabled person\'s body. I encourage people with disabilities to find their own
personal expressions of movement from their own bodies rather than imitating dance
styles like ballet or ballroom dancing and movements that come from non-disabled
bodies. When persons with disabilities try to perform in contemporary dance styles
typically performed by the non-disabled, audiences judge them as making a nice
effort. However, when persons with disabilities create dances which present the
authentic movement of their own bodies they will find that the audience will
appreciate them as true artists. \"
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