Welcome to momentum -
commented videos of contact improvisation

Introduction

While preparing for the ECITE 2001 (European CI Teachers Conference) in Berne, Swizerland, the idea of producing videos of CI with the participants in the conference arose. Due to organizational reasons this could not happen at this time. However, our interest in a collection of moving images of Contact Improvisation remained, so we initiated momentum in 2003.

Via mailing lists, websites, an announcement in Contact Quarterly and personal contacts we invited people to send videos that show different aspects of CI. The breadth of the possibilities ranged from snips of everyday practise or workshop documentation to excerpts from performances. To reflect the diversity of the individual contribution and the personal individual positioning in relation to CI, we asked all the contributors to supplement their video entry with a commentary.

With momentum we plan to gather a commented video archive of CI. We encourage everybody to send in a contribution so that we can publish a new DVD every 2 years. In this first volume we included all video entries we received so far, with many thanks to the contributors.

July 2005
Peter Aerni, Tinu Hettich, Christine Mauch and Thea Rytz

Addendum June 2022
momentum is no longer available in DVD form (who still has a DVD player :-) for this reason the articles are now available online here.

DVD Volume 1

momentum Volume 1/2005 was presented for the first time at the Bernerjam on July 01, 2005.
The videos can be played directly in a up to date browser (click on video still), the playback in full screen mode is possible by clicking on the icon.