Contact improvisation in Italy Zipfestival

Contents of the festival: A lively kermis of artists from various countries, have been invited to collaborate in the creative production of events, promoting the cooperation and identification of a transcultural art. Zip raises the question of the processes of artistic interaction, creates the contact and occasion for cooperation among the guest artists who bare their experiences, affinities and cultural and generational differences to create the festival, together, in Orvieto. Leitmotif of the Festival is the staging of the Improvisation Performance of dance and live music, mediated by the practice and aesthetics of Contact Improvisation. This type of dance was founded by the artist Steve Paxton in the United States in the early nineteen seventies, an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the body outside the codified and predefined schemes of the classic approach to movement. Born in 2000: The festival is held every year in the splendid Etruscan city of Orvieto, transforming the old