• material for the spine

Creators: Steve Paxton, Baptiste Andrien, Florence Corin

"Material for the Spine, a study of movement" is an interactive online publication (Web-app). Conceived by dancer Steve Paxton as both a meditation on the spine and a technical approach, "Material for the Spine" concentrates the knowledge accumulated over the course of his career, integrating his study of walking, his experience as a dancer, the development of Contact Improvisation and his practice of aikido. Over four hours in length, this publication presents the technique in its formal dimension and the thinking behind it. Exercises and physical explorations combine with lectures and original performance archives, drawing "awareness to the dark side of the body, to its hidden face or interior". "Material for the Spine, une étude du mouvement" is the technological translation of the DVD-ROM of the same name, published in 2008 by Éditions Contredanse.