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