Contact Quarterly

Contact Quarterly (CQ) is a contemporary dance magazine established in 1975, with a focus on improvisation and performance. In addition to its periodical publications, the magazine sponsors symposia, workshops, and other programmes to support of contemporary movement arts. It is recognized for its role in supporting the "contact improvisation" dance movement.[1][2][3][4]

Annual 2010 cover of CQ

Overview

Contact Quarterly was launched as Contact Newsletter, during a period when "contact improvisation", a particular type of contemporary dance using improvisation, was a growing trend. It was renamed Contact Quarterly in 1975 and was a regularly published national magazine. It "collected impressions and insight into contact as well as announcements for upcoming events".[5] Early issues of the magazine are valued as educational reading for dancers and dance teachers exploring the roots of the contact improvisation movement and the techniques of its originators.[6] The headquarters of the magazine is in Northampton, Massachusetts.[7]

See also

References
  1. Buckwalter, Melinda (2010). Composing While Dancing: An Improviser's Companion. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 214. ISBN 9780299248147.
  2. Bremser, Martha (1999). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Routledge. p. 187. ISBN 9780415103640.
  3. Franklin, Eric N. (1996). Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance. Human Kinetics. p. 58. ISBN 9780873229432.
  4. Albright, Ann Cooper; David Gere (2003). Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader. Wesleyan University Press. pp. xx. ISBN 9780819566485.
  5. Desmond, Jane (2001). Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage. University of Wisconsin. pp. 180. ISBN 9780299170547.
  6. McCutchen, Brenda Pugh (2006). Teaching Dance As Art in Education. Human Kinetics. p. 155. ISBN 9780736051880.
  7. "Contact Us". Contact Quarterly. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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