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Buenos Aires – Argentina

David Corbet makes work in various areas including film , performance, music, dance and digital media. Much of this has been through, and informed by, an ongoing practice in performance improvisation and contact improvisation. He first started dancing with Felicity MacDonald before joining State of Flux Dance Company and meeting Jacob Lehrer, whom he has an ongoing collaboration with (see davidandjacob.com).

For the past two years he has taught a weekly contact improvisation class for the Canberra Dance Theatre, where he will continue to teach more intermittently in 2009.

David founded Proximity magazine in 1998, which he produced and edited for almost 10 years. Proximity continues to grow with a new very dedicated team.

Joey Lehrer is a movement teacher, somatic practitioner and improvisational performance artist. He is a respected and key member of the Australian CI community as a teacher, writer and performer of the form – having taught extensively across Australia and New Zealand, both open workshops and at tertiary institutions. Dancing from an early age, Joey began CI seriously in 2001 – and hasn’t looked back since! He has studied with State of Flux, Rinske Ginsberg, Helen Clarke Lapin, Martin Keogh & Ray Chung.

In recent years, Joey has been a core member of the organising team for the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergence, ACIC, and is currently a co-editor of Proximity magazine. He teaches regular CI classes at Studio 202, where he is also a Pilates Practioner and Remedial Massage Therapist. In teaching CI, Joey enjoys creating a sense of playful focus, a space for exploration and fun, where ideas can be embedded into a container of ‘simply dancing’ so that improvisation enhances the unfolding of concepts or skills.

Alejandro is a visual and performing artist from Buenos Aries Argentina. He has danced contact improvisation for the last 12 years and has been teaching in Sydney since 2002. Alejandro has hosted, attended and organised several workshops around the world, working with many international artists. He has taught Contact Improvisation for companies like Legs on the Wall, Shaun Parker, Kate Championʼs Force Majeure, ACPE and the dance department of the UNSW. In 2008 he toured with a Legs on the Wall performance for the VISA corporate lounge at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Alejandro has had training in physical theatre, pantomime, acro-balance and circus and is the director of Strings Attached Physical Theatre Company. Alejandro's classes are always fun and challenging and his attention to physical and emotional safety, provides the students with the perfect environment for personal growth

Born in Napoli, 1965.
Is a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.
Is a dancer and choreographer. Graduated in 1994 at CNDO-EDDC, Arnhem, Holland.
Dances Contact Improvivisation since 1989.
Teaches Contact Improvisation in academic institutions and independent centers and festivals.

He is director of the International Festival of Novadança since 1996. In recent years, participated in workshops and performances with the Portuguese Rui Horta, the Americans with Carla Perlo, Cathie Caraker, Nancy Stark Smith, Daniel Lepkoff, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Karen Nelson, Katie Duck, Ray Chung, Lee and Ryuji Howard Sonenklar; with Venezuelan David Zambrano, with the Japanese Oka, Ryuji Lee and Hisako Horikawa, with Dutch Angelika Oei; with German Dieter Heitkamp and Spanish Jordi Cortes Molina. As choreographer, he created the shows, “Retratos” was nominated for the prize of APAC 1993, “Mulheres” in 1996 – Portugal, “Zero” award winner Aluízio Batata 1997 “Retratos” shown for the awards Candango Ok and Culture Award 1998, “Sun in an empty room,” 1999, “Mezzanino” in 2000 and “Vertigem,” “O Tratado das Meias Verdades” in 2006. His works have been seen in Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain and Germany. In 1998, he participation of the VI Encuentro de Venezuela.

Fernando’s main artistic formation is:
Scenic Arts at the University of Rio de Janeiro; Circus at the National School of Circus of Rio de Janeiro; Dance and Therapy Through Movement at the School of Contemporary Dance and Body Expression Angel Vianna (Rio de Janeiro); Organic Music working and collaborating during twenty years with Ricardo Oliveira, the creator of this approach. (see more: www.musicaorganica.com.br)
He complements this formation in free courses and workshops of:
Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation and movement technique with: Graciela Figueroa (Uruguay), Julien Hamilton (England), Nien-Mari Chatz (Germany), Nienke Reehorst (Holland), Natalie Schulman (France), Steve Paxton (USA), among others. Clown and Buffon with Phillipe Gaulier (France) and Gabriel Chamé (Argentina). Corporal Mime with Kenny Cohen (USA).
As performer he was one of the founders of Intrépida Trupe the pioneer (1986) of New Circus language in Brazil. He moved to Spain, from 1991 to 1997, to work and direct the street theatre company Vagalume Teatro.
Potential Artist of Cirque de Soleil (approved in their casting as physical actor in 2000).
As Body trainer and choreographer, he worked with Brazilian and Spanish companies (Dani Lima, Regina Miranda, Teatro del Velador, etc).
As teacher he supplied classes of:
Dance, in the University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and in the National School of Circus (RJ-Brazil). Acrobatic Expression, in School for New Dance Development (Amsterdam). Acrobatic Dance, in the Instituto Andaluz del Deporte (Spain). Acrobatics, at the Instituto del Teatro de Sevilla (Spain).
Now he is based in Rio de Janeiro, since 1997, working in the approach between Organic Music and C.I. where he leads different groups in internal research as well in interactive performances that joins ethnic polyphonies, movement and spirituality.
Since more than 15 years, Fernando is one of the most active introducers of Contact Improvisation in Brazil, involved on teaching and spreading the technique. Along this time, he participated as teacher and mover in Festivals, workshops, dance and theater companies training, organization of jam sessions in different cities in Brazil and outside: Chile, Spain, Israel, Italy and Holland. He is also the founder of Contact in Rio. (see more in www.contactinrio.jimdo.com)
He has his own Studio (Corpo Seguro), reference of C.I. in Rio, where receives groups as well individuals for training and artistic advice and organizes a Contact jam monthly.

For the last 10 years, Catherine Lessard has been exploring what she calls the Contact Weave. She transmits with passion and coherence the key principles of Improvised Dancing and Contact Improvisation. She has studied and performed with dancers of international reputation such as Nancy Stark Smith, Andrew Harwood, Kirstie Simpson, Patricia Kuypers and Ray Chung. She also has experience in Body-Mind Centering (BMC), Authentic Movement, and butoh, and has professional training in music and communications. Combining, in a unified pedagogy, both a sharp vision of art and a hungry curiosity for science, Catherine has been teaching and performing Contact Improvisation regularly since 2003 in Montreal (Studio 303 & Dojos), in France and in USA. She is a member of PIE (Performance Improvisation Exchange), a collective for movement research in Montreal. Since 2007, she has served as president of ACI Montreal (Association for Contact Improvisation).

Catherine's workshops are explorations of human expression through breathing, awareness, non-judgment and various nuances of touch and movement, offered in an atmosphere of respect and playful discovery.

Kathleen Rea has danced with Ballet Jorgen Canada (BJC), National Ballet of Canada and; Tiroler Landestheater (Austria). In 2000 she formed REAson detre productions, an organization that houses her artistic endeavours as a choreographer, producer and teacher. Kathleen has choreographed over 30 original works for various organizations including Bravo Television, Ballet Jörgen Canada, Gender Play, Ryerson University, Theatre Passe Muraille and Toronto Dance Theatre. Kathleen's full-length ballet, the Velveteen Rabbit, was performed by BJC across North America and her award winning film Lapinthrope premiered at numerous international film festivals. Kathleen is also a member of the Contact Dance community, founding the Wednesday Dance Jam, is a faculty member of George Brown College Dance and has a Masters degree in Expressive Arts (EGS and ISIS-Canada).

Suzanne Liska is a dance artist and educator originally from Alberta and now based in Toronto. She is Co-Artistic Director of Flightworks and has danced for choreographers Pam Johnson, Karen Kaeja, Sue Lee, and Kathleen Rea. Suzanne specializes in dance improvisation and was first introduced to Contact Improv in 1998. Her influential teachers include Pam Johnson, Nina Martin, Nancy Stark Smith, and Andrew Harwood. Pilates and the Alexander Technique also inform her instructional style. She is the co-founder of the aLOFT Project with Karen Kaeja, a platform for research and performance, specific to the Contact Improv ensemble. Suzanne regularly teaches Contact Improv dance classes in Toronto, workshops in Ontario and Alberta, and Project 5 Star (Dance Improv and Performance) with Karen Kaeja and Kathleen Rea.

began contact improv at Langara College in 1984, co-hosted the jam in Vancouver at EDAM for many years, has attended hundreds of ci classes, intensives, workshops, jams and festivals in canada and the usa (especially the west coast), learning and dancing with ci practitioners of all shapes, sizes and abilities… email: vonxristoatgmaildotcom

I have been studying bodywork and movement since 1986 and have taught contact improvisation on and off since 1990. I have been much influenced by release work, Feldenkrais, BMC and Aikido. I am an osteopathic physiotherapist. I see my strong interest in radical social theory and my love of contactimprovisation as two aspects of the same desire.

Germany

I teach mime, mimecare, contact improvisation and also how to use mouvement to help people during emergency, hospital, earthquakes
I spent most of my time in India and all Europe
By organizing streets events like "free hugs", contact improvisation, mimecare jam

Contact http://contactimpro-spiral.com

Contact improvisation lover, performer, teacher, CI and other culture events' organizer.
Education and profession: psychotherapist (psycho-organic analysis).
Improvisation in her body lives free and aware from 2001. Contact improvisation- since some 2006.
Influence of qi-gong and body oriented psychotherapy in her teaching.

A dancer, teacher, performer, and organizer of contact related activities in Lithuania, mainly in Vilnius.

David Lim has been practicing and teaching contact improvisation since 2005. He has studied the dance form with luminaries such as Nancy Stark Smith, KJ Holmes, Martin Keogh, Martin Hughes, Alejandro Rolandi, and Joerg Hassman, and his investigation into contact improvisation is informed by movement approaches such as Alexander Technique, Body-Mind Centering, and Ideokinesis.

As performer/choreographer, his works have been shown at Cloth & Clef, Short & Sweet Dance Malaysia, Dancebox FUSED, Malaysia-Japan Video Art Exchange, Sama-sama Guesthouse Mini Alternative Art Festival, MAP Arts Festival, Inno-Fest, Multimedia University’s Research Creation Exhibition, SiCKL’s Improv Lab @ FINDARS, and SiCKL’s Open Lab. His works have included collaboration with other artists such as musicians Melvin Ho and Yong Yandsen, new media artists Lim Kok Yoong and Kotaro Tanaka, and dancer-choreographers Low Shee Hoe and Kristine Nilsen Oma.

Choreographer, performaer, teacher

I teach a weekly class in Utrecht on wednesdays (18:30-20:15)
and iregular workshops througout the country.

I also teach a few times a year at the Amsterdamjam
(see: http://www.geocities.com/amsterdamjam/ )

email:     info at Dansavontuur dot nl

Juliet Shelley is an experienced practitioner, teacher and exponent of Contact Improvisation, based in Wellington, NZ.
She has taught CI at the NZ School of Dance, UNITEC School of Performing and Screen Arts NZ, at the Australian Contact Improvisation Convergance, at SOUL in Auckland, at Prana festivals in the Coromandel and in contact dance communities in the UK and NZ since 1989. Juliet studied Contact with Julyen Hamilton, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Kirstie Simson and Andrew Harwood. She studied dance professionally at the Laban Centre in London and the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Juliet has performed CI with Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Catherine Chappell, Sylvie Haisman and with Jointwork Dance Group in the UK.
She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

. . . You are in possession of Your body, but are You in contact with it . ? . :-)

Please contact me if you'd like info on local classes, jams & events.

Player, Mover, Converser, Organizer and Teacher of Contact.

Curator of the Touch&Play Festival: A 3-day event Exploring the Human Chemistry in Contact Improvisation.
(April 29th- May 2nd, Berlin, Germany)

I dance and teach CI mostly in Barcelona.

performer, traveler, teacher
directs the TRANSIT FESTIVAL dedicated to Improvisation and Performance Art

Filmmaker, choreographer, installation & performance artist; teacher/researcher & director/organiser of extended improvisation related activities such as workshops, performances, installations & interventions, especially in the fields of architecture, visual arts and urban planning/design.

Charlie Morrissey is a performer, teacher, researcher, director and organiser of improvisation related events.

Dancer, teacher, performer and organiser of contact improvisation related activities based in London. Member of Touchdown Dance and improv ensemble SoFT.

I host/facilitate/teach a weekly class and jam in Grass Valley, CA in the Sierra Foothills, which I've been leading since Fall of 2005. We have a wonderful, warm-hearted group of about 20, but only about 6-12 show up on any given night, mixed levels. I also bring out-of-town teachers in to lead weekend workshops, and I'm available to travel and teach workshops. I've been studying CI since something like 1989, always learning and growing and loving it, and bringing in elements from other movement studies. In my teaching I present CI as an art/dance form, an awareness practice, a tool for self-revelation and self-change, and a source of endless fun and discovery. My teaching focuses on deepening into the practice of CI through cultivating awareness, sensitivity, technique and individual exploration. I would love to teach at festivals or do a workshop in your community.

Cara is a movement practitioner who shares the technical aspects as well as the therapeutic properties of the Contact Dance form with others. In her classes, she endeavors to share the magic of ensemble thinking while embodying a core belief in both the democratic and the improvisational natures of teaching.

CI Teacher, Curation Staff for WCCIF, tech and teaching staff at CounterPULSE/SF, Dance & Media Company: HumilitySwim.

Contacter since 1976. Former member of Mangrove, a CI-based performance collective in San Francisco, from 1977-80. Have taught in US, Canada, Europe.
Lived in Chicago, 1998-2005.
Since 2001, involved with GLACIER (Great Lakes Area CI Enthusiasts Retreat), as participant, teacher, and organizer.
Recently (2008) moved to Northern California.
I do teach, but no classes active at this time.

The Boulder Contact Lab is organized and facilitated by 7 Core Members – Victor Warring, Susan Coates, Lucien Renjilian-Burgy, Lindsay Sworski, Morgan Stanfield, John Caron and Jeffery Dann.

Feel free to contact us for any reason regarding the Boulder Contact Improvisation Lab on Sundays in Boulder.

http://sites.google.com/site/bouldercilab/contact

Contact Improvisation, yoga and pilates teacher. Teaches ongoing classes in Boulder and workshops in Europe and the US. Member of tumblebones contact improvisation collective.

Took class with Steve Paxton in NYC in 80ties., Island Movement in Maine, North Hampton at Smith and in W. Virginia with Washington D.C. crowd. I have been a bodywork therapist for 15 years and haven’t been dancing enough. I did do a Jam at studio near North Hampton when I was living at Kripalu in Lenox, MA. Would really like to contact. Gotta dance.

i love contact improv.
i write about it some here and in offshoot links, and teach sporadically. i crave more opportunity to play with other intent practitioners with a laboratory/exploratory focus – but, of course, i get a lot of that craving satisfied at jams, particularly at the wonderful dc sunday jam, which i help maintain.

My explorations of CI are a refuge. This place keeps my reflexes and awareness alert. Allowing comfort, mystery, the strange and intimate to co-mingle. Intrinsic to the form is the potent meaning of connection to others, while sharing an experience of the principle dynamics of nature.

I organize a contact jam in Sarasota south of Tampa and north of Ft. Myers from the start of January through late May, and sometimes October through December. Visit contactimprovfl.org, though it's hard to keep the times up to date since they change, so don't go by the site – be sure to email or call to check. Please sign up for the email list on the site as that is where we email current schedule info. I also give individual lessons for $20 at my house, or $30-$40 if I drive to meet you. I'm trying to start a barefoot boogie here as well. I run two nonprofits: www.dailysource.org and www.leastof.org. Please visit them if you're into high quality news or helping the poor.

CI junkie, researcher, director, choreographer in the Atlanta area. Developing a hybrid form of CI and theatre, currently dubbed Contact Theatre.

A lover of movement, a creator of life, a connector of community and an enthusiastic participant of Contact Improv. I facilitate contact improv jams in portland and western maine.

I am teaching workshops and classes in Boston, Western Massachusetts, the Northeast, and occasionally touring in the US and internationally.

I have been practicing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation and other related work since 1983. I also have taught CI, Authentic Movement, Anatomy and Alignment, bodywork, yoga, and embodied leadership at dance centers, universities, festivals, high schools and through various programs.

He is currently performing with the Zany Angels Dance Theatre Company.

He is a also master bodyworker certified by Sensie Toshiko Phipps and Nationally Certified in 1993 and is a member of the Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals.

Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation for over twenty-nine years. For his contribution to the development of the form he is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who's Who in the World. Martin spent time traveling to monasteries in Japan and Korea and was the director of the Empty Gate Zen Center in Berkeley before discovering the world of dance. He has co-facilitated Teacher's Conferences on four continents and is the author of The Art of Waiting and As Much Time as it Takes. More info at: www.martinkeogh.com

Mark Moti Zemelman, MFA, (USA) began practicing Contact Improv twenty years ago. Over the past thirteen years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. For the past year he has been Professor of Dance at C.I.C.O. (Centro de Investigación Coreografica) at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti is a regular teacher and past board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Massachusetts, USA. Other recent teaching engagements include DanceBase (Edinburgh), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Z in Motion Festival (Helsinki), and Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for contact jams, in 2006 released his debut CD, and is currently working on his third CD. He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA). Other training includes yoga, Action Theater, modern dance, and clowning. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.

BFA Juilliard, MFA Bennington College. Felice is a dancer, choreographer and veteran teacher of Contact Improvisation. She has been teaching in the Five College dance department for the past thirteen years and has taught in many colleges and dance centers including The School for New Dance Development in Holland. Felice’s work combines investigations into Authentic Movement and Contemporary dance technique as well. She has collaborated with other artists including Nancy Stark Smith, Patrick Crowley and Daniel Lepkoff. Felice is interested in how dance can be instructional as well as healing and incorporate the whole self into its investigations.

Coordinator for Contact Improv in Ithaca, NY

Teach (in English or, Japanese) and perform Contact Improvisation. Searching for New Members who are interested in regular rehearsing in downtown New York City to perform. Kneepads in stock. Please email me for inquiry.

Rochester contact jams some Sundays 5:30-7 and occaisional Wednesdays 6:30-8

Local organizer, photographer, and occasionally teacher of contact improv.

Actor, Dancer, Director, Playwright, Producer, and sometime Singer. Learned the ropes under John Gamble and Marsha Paludan. Jamming for 15 years.

I am an experimental dance artist, inspired by my studies of new dance, dance-theater, contact improvisation, and butoh. I'm also a bodyworker and use healing practices, such as body-mind centering, yoga and feldenkrais, as a source of creativity, inspiration and physical training. I research extended dance techniques, which are unique movements, individual to my particular body. I also develop teaching methods to help other dancers find their own extended techniques. Dance is a social art form and I'm a promiscuous collaborator. I'm mostly known for my collaborations with avant-garde musicians, particularly my duo with Andy Hayleck (When We're Older), but I also work with other dance, theater and visual artists. I have choreographed over 15 original dance works, and am also an avid improviser. I'm currently practicing free improvisation: dances without any predetermined plan. My work is always site-specific in that I seek to activate and enliven all spaces that I dance in, whether they are theaters, studios, homes, places of business or the outdoors. I also seek to connect audience members to their own embodied, corporeal experience with the immediacy and spontaneity of improvisation.

Angie Hauser is a dancer and teacher. Her work is grounded in improvisation and performance reflecting the influences of contact improvisation, postmodern choreography, ballet and Butoh. Since 2000, Angie has been a member of the Bebe Miller Company, where she contributes to the creation of award winning dance works that are performed throughout the United States. In 2006 Angie was awarded a BESSIE (N.Y. Dance and Performance Award) for Creation and Choreography for her work with Bebe Miller. As an improviser she has collaborated with many gifted artists including Chris Aiken, Kirstie Simpson, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Andrew Harwood and Kathleen Hermesdorf. She has also danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi. She has taught contact improvisation, improvisation and dance throughout North America as well as Switzerland, Germany, France and Scotland. Angie received her MFA in dance from the Ohio State University and holds a BA in Art History from University of South Carolina.

investigating ci since the mid 80s, i am still engaged and interested. what a fascinating journey it has been thus far. i teach ci at juniata college, where ci36 took place, and also enjoy traveling to teach, perform and dance at festivals. of course i have favorite partners, but isnt it wonderful when you have a great dance with someone you just met and will never see again? what a marvelous universal language. while in the moment of a dance, i feel like i am on the inside of physics—attuned, alert, and calm all at once, and yet there is something distinctly alive about the intimacy of even small, private shifts.

Teaches, Performs, Dances

Dance Meditation Facilitator & C.I. Explorer/Facilitator

Michelle has been practicing and studying Contact since 1999. She facilitates the weekly jam in Burlington and is a main organizer for the Annual Jam.

Artistic Director, This Little Bird
a new dance-theatre based in Charlottesville, Va.