No Rules Workout

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AMERICANS ARE ALWAYS READY FOR THE LATEST FITNESS CRAZE...YOGA...PILATES... STEP...TAE BO... BUT WHAT IF YOU LIKE YOUR EXERCISE A LITTLE MORE LAID BACK? IN TODAY'S HEADS UP, CONTACT IMPROV DANCE...A FREE-FORM MOVEMENT THAT'S GAINING TRACTION AROUND THE COUNTRY...

TRACK ONE Length: 08
THERE'S NO MUSIC, NO INSTRUCTOR, AND NO SPECIFIC MOVES...BUT THIS DANCE CLASS IS BECOMING A POPULAR WORKOUT TREND COAST TO COAST.

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Length: 02
"You're nowhere bound."

TRACK TWO Length: 10
'NOWHERE BOUND' JUST ABOUT SUMS UP CONTACT IMPROV...A FREE-FORM, FREE EXPRESSION TYPE OF DANCE THAT GIVES PEOPLE A HEFTY WORKOUT - BUT A WORKOUT OF THEIR OWN MAKING...

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KEY @:22 Megan Orwig, Does Contact Improv
"If you go into a beginning contact class it will look like people rolling around on the floor together."

TRACK THREE Length: 10
MARTIN KEOGH IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF CONTACT IMPROV. HE SAYS THAT, LIKE YOGA, CONTACT IMPROV IS BECOMING MORE MAINSTREAM...NOT JUST IN THE U-S BUT AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL.

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KEY @: 36 Martin Keogh, Contact Improv Instructor
"A great appeal of this form is that you're not imposing anybody's choreography on your body."

TRACK FOUR Length: 10
KEOGH SAYS CONTACT IMPROV DANCERS ARE LIKE HUMAN PUZZLE PIECES,
CONNECTING AND RE-CONNECTING IN UN-SCRIPTED WAYS. INSIDERS LIKE IT
BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A DANCER TO DO IT.

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KEY @: 53 Megan Orwig, Does Contact Improv
"It wasn't until I started doing contact that I really felt like that I was a dancer, that I was an athlete."

TRACK FIVE Length: 09
KEOGH SAYS IT'S A GREAT WORKOUT - BUT IT'S ONLY AS STRENUOUS AS YOU WANT TO MAKE IT, BECAUSE NO ONE IS TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO. AND FOR MANY, THAT LITERALLY TAKES A LOAD OFF!

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KEY @: 1:10 Martin Keogh, Contact Improv Instructor
"My body of course is not as resilient as when I was in my twenties or in my thirties. But, I can still, within my range, get quite athletic with it.

TRACK SIX Length: 06
ULTIMATELY, THOSE WHO DO CONTACT IMPROVE SAY IT HELPS THEM FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IN THEIR OWN SKIN.

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"It was the first time that, when I moved, I felt like my body made sense."

ANCHOR TAG:
CONTACT IMPROV EVENTS - KNOWN AS 'JAMS' -- CAN BE FOUND AROUND THE COUNTRY BY LOOKING AT www.contactimprov.com - AND CLICKING ON THE WORLD JAM MAP.

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Contact Name:
Martin Keogh
24 Holmes Street
North Easton MA 02356 USA
phone: 1 (508) 238-7474
contact@martinkeogh.com
Martin Keogh has been teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for over twenty-five years. After attending the Interlochen Arts Academy and Stanford University, Martin spent time traveling to monasteries in Japan and Korea and was a dharma teacher at the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley, California.
He is one of the original members of the Motivity Dance Company, which specializes in aerial dancing on low level trapezes. Martin founded The Dancing Ground, an organization that produces conferences on gender, race and mythology in Northern California. He worked as consultant with Touchdown Dance USA, an organization that teaches C.I. to the blind.
Martin is a Fulbright Senior Specialist. He has taught in 68 cities in 18 countries on four continents.