Body cinema: Steve Paxton – selected videos

Steve Paxton‘s video selection tonight in Body cinema screenings… to shake our frozen necks and ‘ready for the winter hibernation’ bodies…

Photo above: Steve Paxton in The Beast taken by Julieta Cervantes (c)
Photo bellow: from MFS as base for improvisation – water

Contact Improvisation – Shute (1972) by Bill Paxton

CHUTE
1979. B & W. 9 min. 36 sec.
Edit of the first Contact Improvisation demonstrations/-installation in NYC at the John Weber Gallery in 1972. Performers from N.Y.C., University of Rochester, Oberlin College, and Bennington College. With narration by Steve Paxton describing some of the original concerns of the form, including falling.
Script/Narration: Steve Paxton
Camera: Steve Christiansen
Editing: Christiansen, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton

From the ‘Material for the Spine’ – MFS
Forms: Cultivating – Art & Culture

MFS as base for improvisation
Sensation and Senses
Back: *

MFS as base for improvisation
Looking at Goldberg Variations

MFS as base for improvisation
Looking at English Suites

MFS as base for improvisation
A technique for improvisation

MFS as base for improvisation
Sensation and Senses
Pelvis as an initiator

MFS as base for improvisation
Sensation and Senses
Weight of Sensation

MFS as base for improvisation
Forms: crescent rolls – in water

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