From joe@orbis-tertius.net  Tue Jan  8 07:58:44 2002
From: joe@orbis-tertius.net (Joe Edelman)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 02:58:44 -0500
Subject: [CI-Announce] Interact online with dancers around the world!
Message-ID: <005901c1981a$501e01c0$0400a8c0@officedesktop>

THE EDANCE WIKI

>From the Earthdance Workshop & Retreat Center comes a rallying call to
connect the world-wide contact improv community in a new way, on the
world-wide web.  We have created a website, at http://earthdance.net/wiki/,
to which anyone can post their thoughts, visions, or tips, and through which
we can collaboratively create manifestos, plans, curriculums, visions,
stories, and anything else that comes to mind.  It is easy to use: just find
the page that you would like to add to and click the button "edit this
page".

The site is divided into sections, and it is easy to add your own section.
The sections currently on the site are:

    *Testimonials
    *Contact and Kids
    *Contact and Sports Injuries
    *Dance Inspired Stories & Poetry
    *Contact Visions & Brainstorms
    *Contact, Sexuality, & Boundaries
    Contact and Aging
    Contact and Community
    The Contact Improv Exercise Book
    The Contact Improv Encyclopedia
    Tutorial: Starting a Jam


GET INVOLVED

WRITE.  The success of this site depends on your thoughts!  Post them!  If
we receive well-written, interesting contributions, people will keep coming
back to see what's new, and a community will form.  If no one posts, the
thing will fade quickly.  You can post directly to any of these sections
just by using the site and clicking "Edit this page" in the appropriate
place.  You can write to the facilitators, or to me, for assistance.
Remember:  a single paragraph that raises important issues or offers a new
perspective can be more valuable than a lengthy essay.

FACILITATE.  The sections with asterisks near their name above need
facilitators.  The job of a facilitator is to rope in contributors on their
topic by sending out emails to people they know, and to assist those
contributors as they add to the site.  You can help by deciding to
facilitate one of those sections above and by sending emails asking
knowledgeable people to write short pieces for that section.  As people
post, you can reformat and rearrange the section as needed.  You can also
start your own section.

PLAY.  The software that runs this website is powerful, fluid, and
anarchistic, just like contact improv itself.  Start developing a story or
thought and see who else runs with it.  Rearrange things.  Be whimsical.
Don't be careful-- in this supportive community there's nothing you can
break.  Make a beginning and see where it goes.  Just click "Edit this
page."

This site will become whatever our community wants it to be.  If you know
someone whose ideas belong on this site, forward them this announcement, and
tell them what it is you think they should post.  Offer to help them if they
have difficulty.  Share!  Support!  Dance!  Go to
http://earthdance.net/wiki/.

    Joe Edelman
    Earthdance Engineering
    413-634-0140
    joe@orbis-tertius.net


ABOUT EARTHDANCE:  Earthdance is a home for the improvisational dance
community.  Earthdance invites you for workshops, jams, personal and group
retreats. Located within driving distance of New York and Boston, we welcome
individuals and groups to create, inspire, relax and heal in the glorious
Berkshire hills.