Publications
Gravity by Steve Paxton, Contredanse Editions, Bruxelles, 2018.
Gravity Audiobook by Steve Paxton, Contredanse Editions, Bruxelles, 2020.
In this book, the dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. The memory of his first flight, a meditation on walking, pondering on the conditions of life, and a dream of dancing make up pieces of a puzzle. Paxton muses about the limit of his consciousness and celebrates the potentiality of our senses to enter the dance.
La gravité by Steve Paxton, translation in french by Denise Luccioni, Contredanse Editions, Bruxelles, 2018
Material for the Spine, a movement study by Steve Paxton, Baptiste Andrien and Florence Corin, Contredanse Editions, Bruxelles, 2008.
Paxton has published numerous articles from 1975 to the present in the dance journal Contact Quarterly, Northampton, MA. These articles include dance for the physically disabled, dance for the visually disabled, dance analysis, Contact Improvisation technique and theory, and occasional pieces.
His work is featured in the following books: Terpsichore in Sneakers, Sally Banes, Wesleyan, 1987 ; The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance, Don McDonagh, ebrandedbooks.com, US, revised edition, 1 décembre 1990 ; Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation & American Culture, Cynthia Novack, University of Wisconsin Press; 1990 ; Democracy's Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962-64, Sally Banes, Duke University Press Books, 1993 ; Dance as a Theatre Art, Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present, ss la dir. de Selma Jeanne Cohen, Princeton Book Company, 1992 ; The Grand Union (1970-1976): An Improvisational Performance Group, Margaret Hupp Ramsay, Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1991.
Videos
Paxton wrote and edited videos: Peripheral Vision, 1975 ; Chute, 1979 ; Fall After Newton, 1987 (These videos comprise the early history of Contact Improvisation), edited in Videoda Contact Improvisation Archive, Collected Edition 1972 – 1983, VIDEODA, Vermont, 2014.
His work is featured in: Dance in America, 1980, PBS ; Dance and Dancing, 1992, PBS ; Goldberg Variations1-15 & 16-30, Steve Paxton, Walter Verdin, 1992, (KAAI Theater, Belgique & The Kitchen, New York)