The physical touch, movement, interaction, community and friendships that develop can balance these 'modernity' processes which may significantly influence our daily lives, in a variety of ways.
Here are some great contact videos:
Making Contact: Atlanta Contact Improv Jam 2006
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNfM-n_Soo
Contact Improvisation in performance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2Tof2y1yQ
Creative Contact:
Pilobolus: A performance merging dance and biology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZ6KnVPvIU
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... just returned from Harbin, which is also a wonderful complement to modernity...
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Both contact improv and Harbin emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, out of counterculture, in so many ways.
I see counterculture and the freedom-seeking movements of those years, as they take form in the present, also as responses to modernity.
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