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Steve Paxton's "Interior Techniques": Contact Improvisation and Political Power
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2010 (T 207)
- pp. 123-135
- Article
- Additional Information
Steve Paxton’s contact improvisation, though meant to develop our “habit of attending” to sensations and reflexes to overcome American democracy’s conditioning in “voluntary slavery,” has instead mainly become an apolitical, “spiritual” practice. But CI could, by showing the relation between culture and conscious experience, radicalize participation in all our relations.