Editing Contact improvisation (section)

==== In Europe ====
In Europe, contact improvisation was presented for the first time in 1973 (from June 25 to 28th) in an art gallery in Rome, L'Attico run by Fabio Sargentini.<ref>{{Cite book|title=L'attico di Fabio Sargentini. 1966-1978. Catalogo della mostra| year=2010 |publisher=Mondadori Electa|isbn=9788837079574|pages=128|language=it, en}}</ref> In the 1970s and 1980s, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson were regularly invited to the [[Dartington College of Arts]] in Great Britain (where early contacter Mary Fulkerson was part of the dance faculty) and the School for New Dance Development in [[Amsterdam]], which served as transmission belts for contact improvisation in Europe.

Nancy Stark Smith was key to the organization of the first European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange.  Subsequent exchanges have been organized since 1985 and hosted each year by a different European country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecite.org/|title=ECITE.org|website=www.ecite.org|access-date=2017-03-29}}</ref>

Belgian dancer and choreographer Patricia Kuypers noted in 1999 that, depending on the country and the individual, it has spread more or less rapidly in the world of dance or amateurs. In Belgium, where Steve Paxton had come since the 1980s, invited by the Klapstuk and the Kaaitheater, few professional dancers regularly practiced it, and apart from certain outbreaks of fever in successful jams, it can not be said that contact improvisation left any lasting trace among professional dancers, except in a choreographed form.<ref name=":1">Patricia Kuypers, ''Nouvelles de danse'', <abbr>Vol.</abbr>  38-39, Bruxelles, 1999</ref>

===== In France =====

In France, contact improvisation (sometimes called "danse-contact", as in French-speaking Canada) was introduced for the first time in 1978, where a contact improvisation course was given by Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson during the musical festivities of Sainte Beaume:<blockquote>Didier Silhol, [[Mark Tompkins (dancer)|Mark Tompkins]], Suzanne Cotto, Edith Veyron and Martine Muffat-Joly attended. Their enthusiasm brought them together, to explore together this new form of dance, to organize new courses by bringing back Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson and by inviting other teachers such as Nancy Stark Smith. In 1980, they created the association Danse Contact Improvisation and began to teach themselves, mostly in pairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.laboratoiredugeste.com/spip.php?article166|title=Le Laboratoire du GESTE|website=www.laboratoiredugeste.com|language=fr|access-date=2017-03-08}}</ref></blockquote>Contact improvisation is now practiced in most major cities of the French metropolis - Paris, Grenoble, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Lille, Rennes all have at least one weekly jam - and is taught in many conservatories, including the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Paris.