The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Nancy Stark Smith has been developing since 1990 based on her work with Contact Improvisation. It is an open score that guides dancers through a series of “changing states”, from solo deepening/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support; through group circulation and interaction, contact improvisation engagements, opening out to full space improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection.

The Underscore can be seen as a vehicle for incorporating contact improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space – alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising, The Underscore is being used in the CI community worldwide as a way to focus and concentrate Contact jams.

!!! The Talk Through is mandatory for people new to the Underscore. Repeated listening to the introduction is welcome.

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