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The cover of Contact Quarterly Spring/Summer 83 vol. VIII no. 3/4. This issue focused on Contact Improvisation in college, and featured student and instructor perspectives on what it meant to practice CI in a college setting.

Students practice a lift during an early Base & Perch practice in October 2024.

Dancers at a November 2024 Base & Perch practice.

Student dancers from Base & Perch perform in St. Olaf's Fresh Space 2025 concert.

Student dancers from Base & Perch perform in St. Olaf's Fresh Space 2025 concert.

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

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

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

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

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