Steve Paxton

Steve Paxton is a pioneering American dance artist renowned for developing Contact Improvisation, a dance form emphasizing spontaneous, shared movement between partners through touch and momentum. Trained in martial arts and dance, he fuses these disciplines to explore fluid, responsive physical interactions beyond traditional choreography. Paxton's work emphasizes improvisation, listening, and tactile communication, encouraging dancers to connect intuitively and explore movement in real-time. His innovative approach has influenced contemporary dance globally, blending physicality, mindfulness, and collaboration to expand the expressive possibilities of the human body in motion.