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Description: Remembering Nancy Stark Smith (1952 – 2020),Co-creator of Contact Improvisation, improviser extraordinaire, and founder and co-editor of Contact Quarterly, Nancy Stark Smith passed away on May 1 2020. A force as a dancer and an educator, she created a network of love for improvisation on a global scale.nnShe cracked open gender codes in dance with one casual comment. After watching Steve Paxton’s Magnesium (1972), a dance of hurling and falling for men, she told Paxton, “If you ever work
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