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Notes taken on the transmission of the Underscore, a loose schedule of a Contact Improvisation gathering ("jam") originally formulated by Nancy Stark-Smith. The Underscore features symbols for different stages of a jam and events that might happen within a dance.

This course has been offered since 2016/2017 at St. Olaf, and is the only remaining course related to contact improvisation there.

The oldest class I could find taught at St. Olaf involving contact improvisation. Power Play was taught from 2006 to 2016.

A poster advertising a contact improv jam (open dance) at Carleton College in November 2025

A poster advertising a contact improv jam (open dance) at Carleton College in February 2025

A poster for a November 2024 student-led contact improv jam (open dance) at Carleton College

This course was offered at St. Olaf from 2013 to 2016.

Artist's Statement:
"Contact Sheet includes photos of one of the first student-led contact improvisation jams at Carleton College; it is for Physical Education course #150, Contact Improvisation. The author intended to convey the feeling of the dance through photo editing, assembly, and the use of risograph printing techniques."
8 unnumbered pages: color illustrations; approx. 5x7 inches

A course description from the first time contact improvisation was offered at Carleton College in 1998/1999.

Contact improvisation was taught as its own class at St. Olaf from 2014 to 2016.