Welcome to the Round Robin Project
This site is still in development.
Click here to see RRP Presentation at ECITE 2015
The purpose of this website is to share information about the Round Robin Project (RRP).
The Round Robin Project, initiated in 2008, is being developed to serve the dance form Contact Improvisation (CI) and all the people worldwide who are engaged in that work—dance practitioners, performers, researchers, teachers, and any other interested people.
For more information about CI please go to Contact Quarterly’s “About CI” http://www.contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/index.php,
The goal of the RRP is to make information about CI easily accessible, in many languages—representing, at a glance, CI activities and resources available around the globe.
The RRP currently has two aspects:
• A collective Global CI Calendar (GCIC), with listings of CI classes, jams, workshops, festivals, and events happening throughout the global CI community, posted individually by event organizers and teachers.
• A collective Global CI Archive (GCIA), with a broad and diverse index of materials about Contact Improvisation ranging from articles, books, theses, transcripts, videos, to other CI artifacts, in many languages.
The vision of creating a global sharing place on the Internet for CI calendar and archival material emerged from the CI36 anniversary event in 2008. The idea was introduced to CI teachers at the 2009 ECITE (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange) in Ormskirk, UK. There was an initial team that developed a concept of creating an interactive calendar tool that would be used globally, finding information on regional websites that would all talk to each other and be decentralized. Since then, that vision has changed after discovering that the technicalities of manifesting such a tool wasn’t possible. The new vision—to make a central, shared, cooperative calendar—has emerged and is moving forward. Likewise, a collective platform for sharing CI archival materials is being pursued.
We welcome you to participate in the development and use of these tools for global sharing of CI information.
The RRP Steering Committee as of January 1, 2018:
Dieter Heitkamp (GER)
Eckhard Mueller (FRA/GER)
Nancy Stark Smith (USA)
The Round Robin Project, initiated in 2008, is being developed to serve the dance form Contact Improvisation (CI) and all the people worldwide who are engaged in that work—dance practitioners, performers, researchers, teachers, and any other interested people.
For more information about CI please go to Contact Quarterly’s “About CI” http://www.contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/index.php,
The goal of the RRP is to make information about CI easily accessible, in many languages—representing, at a glance, CI activities and resources available around the globe.
The RRP currently has two aspects:
• A collective Global CI Calendar (GCIC), with listings of CI classes, jams, workshops, festivals, and events happening throughout the global CI community, posted individually by event organizers and teachers.
• A collective Global CI Archive (GCIA), with a broad and diverse index of materials about Contact Improvisation ranging from articles, books, theses, transcripts, videos, to other CI artifacts, in many languages.
The vision of creating a global sharing place on the Internet for CI calendar and archival material emerged from the CI36 anniversary event in 2008. The idea was introduced to CI teachers at the 2009 ECITE (European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange) in Ormskirk, UK. There was an initial team that developed a concept of creating an interactive calendar tool that would be used globally, finding information on regional websites that would all talk to each other and be decentralized. Since then, that vision has changed after discovering that the technicalities of manifesting such a tool wasn’t possible. The new vision—to make a central, shared, cooperative calendar—has emerged and is moving forward. Likewise, a collective platform for sharing CI archival materials is being pursued.
We welcome you to participate in the development and use of these tools for global sharing of CI information.
The RRP Steering Committee as of January 1, 2018:
Dieter Heitkamp (GER)
Eckhard Mueller (FRA/GER)
Nancy Stark Smith (USA)