Contact Quarterly
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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.{{cite book |last=Buckwalter |first=Melinda |title=Composing While Dancing: An Improviser's Companion |year=2010 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |isbn=9780299248147|page=214}}{{cite book |last=Bremser |first=Martha |title=Fifty Contemporary Choreographers |url=https://archive.org/details/fiftycontemporar0000brem |url-access=registration |year=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415103640|page=[https://archive.org/details/fiftycontemporar0000brem/page/187 187]}}{{cite book |last=Franklin |first=Eric N. |title=Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance |year=1996 |publisher=Human Kinetics |isbn=9780873229432 |page=58}}{{cite book |author1=Albright, Ann Cooper |author2=David Gere |title=Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader |year=2003 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=9780819566485|pages=xx}}
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".{{cite book |last=Desmond |first=Jane |title=Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage |year=2001 |publisher=University of Wisconsin |isbn=9780299170547 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/dancingdesiresch0000unse/page/180 180] |url=https://archive.org/details/dancingdesiresch0000unse/page/180 }} 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.{{cite book |last=McCutchen |first=Brenda Pugh |title=Teaching Dance As Art in Education|year=2006|publisher=Human Kinetics|isbn=9780736051880|page=155}} The headquarters of the magazine is in Northampton, Massachusetts.{{cite news|title=Contact Us|url=http://www.contactquarterly.com/contact-us/index.php|accessdate=22 February 2016|work=Contact Quarterly}}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.contactquarterly.com/}}
Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United States
Category:Magazines established in 1975
Category:English-language magazines
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