Stuart Phillips — Contact as Therapy, Shadowwork, and Deconditioning (Victoria, Canada)
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New Episode ~ Faces of CI: Conversations on Contact Improvisation
Our guest today is Stuart Phillips — Contact teacher since the 1980s, joining us from Victoria, BC, Canada.
From his wild roots at Bates College in the ’80s — all-day improvising and “contact as charades on steroids” — we explore:
✨ CI as weirdness, allowance, shadow work, and therapeutic relief from daily life
✨ His improvisational contact style — emphasizing improvisation, internal choice before flow
✨ Depatterning and deconditioning our habitual “contact moves”
✨ The patience and mystery of getting what you truly need in a dance
Stu 👂 "When I'm getting what I need in a dance, it’s shifting me — so it makes me more open to the world. It takes so much patience. It's such a mystery."
🌐 Find out more about Stuart’s work: www.stulips.org
🎓 Join our upcoming Momentum Contact Facilitator Training — www.momentum-contact.com
📸 Instagram: @momentumcontact
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