3 Editor Note

Moving without a Body?

by Nancy Stark Smith

5 Letters to CQ

10 Shelf Life: publications received

Book Review: The Place of Dance by Andrea Olsen, with Caryn McHose

by Pamela Vail

12 Some thoughts & memories on Diving In

an eight-hour reading performance of Contact Quarterly journals

by Agnès Benoit

16 Conversation Across Time

an excerpt from the Nonlinear Lineage project

by Sarah Maxfield

21 Fragment of a tuning run

begin……pause……replace…pause…end…………reverse

by Lisa Nelson

24 OUT-SCORE / IN-SCORE WORKSHOP

teaching artistic agency in contemporary choreographic practices

by Jeanine Durning and Liz Waterhouse

30 Dancing the Space Between

Choreo-Portraits and Action Conversations

by Victoria Marks

34 Still Moving: CI shoptalk & dialogue

34 Contact Improvisation: One Experience

by SK, Rythea Lee, and CQ

36 848 Community Space

queer, sex, performance, and contact improvisation in 1990s San Francisco

by Keith Hennessy

39 Essentials: basic CI principles & practices

Slow-Motion Duet

by Kristin Horrigan

40 CI Newsletter: Contact Improvisation news & views

69 Terpsichore's Deck

distilled choreographic inspirations

by Eliza Larson