Editing Contact improvisation (section)

===== 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.