Axolotl Participatory Performance

July 12-26 The 2 week San Francisco Contact Intensive

August 8 to 10 The Dancing Wilderness Project

August 19 to 24 Body Research Contact Festival at Sierra Hot Springs, CA

August 25 to Sep 1 Contact Camp at Burning Man

BODY RESEARCH, a project of director Karl Frost, is devoted to exploration of the self through the lens of the body. It encompasses performance work for the stage, workshops in investigative creative process and body awareness, and gatherings that facilitate the study and practice of body-based exploration and the intersection/integration of life and art.

The work of Body Research crosses many boundaries and territories: disciplinary boundaries of theater, dance, and self-exploration; the boundaries between proscenium performance and commuity ritual; the range of explorations from professional-level creative and theater work to community oriented experiential facilitation.

Body Research uses as one of its main tools a disciplined study of the art of Contact Improvisation.

Body Research is devoted to a life lived more pleasureably and compassionately in balanced relatioship with each other and the world we live in ... in a way which is sustainable for ourselves and the planet and rich in opportunities for the appreciation of life's complexities...

As part of this devotion to sustainability in art-making, Body Research is committed to providing affordable contexts for training and exploration that can be a sustainable part of a life integrated with art-making.

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For upcoming workhsops, performances, and events, goto The Calendar

Some upcoming projects include...

July 12 to 26

The 2 week San Francisco Contact Intensive -- with instructors Karl Frost (Body Research) and Delia Brett/Daelik Hackenbrook (Vancouver-based MACHiNENOiSY)

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August 8 to 10

The Dancing Wilderness Project -- 'since 1997, an ongoing laboratory exploring of the interrelationships amongst wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we live our lives...

August 19 to 24

Body Research Contact Festival at Sierra Hot Springs, CA -- a 5 day festival of classes, laboratories, performances and jams geared towards experienced contactors, living together at a mountain hot springs retreat center in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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August 25 to Sep 1

Contact Camp at Burning Man, Black Rock Dessert, Nevada -- a nexus for the exploration of Contact Improvisation in the cultural wilds of a gift-giving temporary society of 40,000 in the dessert of the N America west...

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RECENT PERFORMANCES include...