An improvisational performance conceived by

Erin Cardinal
Brian Fidalgo II 

Artistic collaboration and direction by

Robin Gordon
Michael Foley 

Text written by

Nancy Stark Smith
David Koteen 

Performed by

Erin Cardinal
Brian Fidalgo II
Robin Gordon
and Michael Foley

Program Notes

Confluence is a work rooted in contact improvisation. The dance is driven by excerpted text from the “interview” between Nancy Stark Smith and David Koteen from the book, Caught Falling. Not only is the dance improvised, but the order in which the text is performed is also unknown. The dancers respond through movement to the rich, playful, poignant text and to each other.

Contact Improvisation is “communication between two moving bodies that are in physical contact and their combined relationship to the physical laws that govern their motion—gravity, momentum, inertia.” –Steve Paxton