Podcast: Sabin solo - Contact Improvisation
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What is Contact Improvisation — really?
In this solo episode of Good Choices, Sabine Parzer dives into the history, philosophy, and deeper principles of Contact Improvisation — beyond festival impressions and “touch dances”.
She speaks about:
• CI as an open-source form (not a fixed method)
• its roots in postmodern dance and the radical research of the 1970s
• the difference between soft skills (listening, gravity, center, counterbalance) and hard skills (lifts, movement patterns)
• the “speed of sensation” and why slowing down changes everything
• how to stay connected to yourself while dancing with another
This episode is both educational and personal — tracing Sabine’s own journey into CI and her integrative approach through somatics and Holistic Dance.
Whether you are new to Contact Improvisation or have been practicing for decades, this conversation invites depth, clarity, and dialogue.
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"Good Choices - A holistic conversation about dance, art & life with Sabine Parzer" is a podcast series in which we invite professionals of the dance and art world as well as related fields to speak about the choices that they make, artistically, personally, ecologically, politically and spiritually. How do these choices affect and inspire them in their work, their physical and mental health, their family lives, the communities that they live in? The questions we ask look toward the interrelation of life and art, how seemingly small (or big) choices may influence, enhance or even contradict the flow of life. Sabine Parzer is head and founder of the Holistic Dance Institute, an internationally well known teacher of Contemporary Dance, Contact improvisation and Authentic Movement. She has been professionally active as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, dance- and body therapist for more than 30 years in the USA, Europe, Russia, Brazil and Israel.
Sabine Parzer
Holistic Dance Institute
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Video Editing: Anja Grundner
Grafik: Irmgard Stelzer
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