Caught Falling

DAVID KOTEEN is a writer, a dancer, an organizer, who began dancing contact improvisation in 1981.His published writings include: IV Passings To A Bridg-gap, Among The Unfertilized Ladies, Decay's Miscellany, Foreigners' Prayerbook, Sunday Morning Meditations, Foreigners' Psaltery, Red and the Wolf, Custard Apples, Nuff Said, Some Seals, Mist Fortune Cards, and the musical HERESY. NANCY STARK SMITH trained as an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study and perform modern and postmodern dance in the early 1970s, greatly influenced by Judson Dance Theater breakthroughs in NYC in the 1960s. She danced in the first performances of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton and others in 1972 and has since been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer/publisher, and organizer. She travels worldwide teaching and performing Contact and other improvised dance work with many favorite dance partners.