Pearls of wisdom
I've never been big on notes. What I love is one-liners ... aphorisms, maxims, nuggets of wisdom. Here are some of my favourites. (These are what I heard and not maybe what was said ... if I got it wrong then please correct me)
If you're dancing physics, you're dancing contact...
if you're dancing chemistry, you're doing something else...
Steve Paxton
Use you mind as a lens to focus on the body
Nancy Stark Smith quoting Steve Paxton
We're all alone in this together
Steve Paxton on the situation in Contact Improvisation... and life
A step is a small dance – life is a big dance
Julyen Hamilton, in the middle of explaining an exercise, after
being asked what a small dance is
The earth is much bigger than you are so you'd better learn to
co-ordinate with it
Nancy Stark Smith in "Fall After Newton" video
Mama!!!!!!
David Zambrano transitioning to the floor in his Flying Low class
You can't do what you want until you know what you are doing
My version of a quote from Moshe Feldenkrais
Tension masks sensation
Nancy Stark Smith
Contact Improvisation is a state of mind
Nancy Stark Smith
Better to get it wrong right than get it right wrong
Julyen Hamiton
Think of learning anatomy as like going to a cocktail party
The important thing to remember is what people look like and what
they do
You can learn their names later
Bill Palmer
I haven't got much in the way of answers
What I'm trying to teach you is how to ask interesting questions
Bill Palmer
