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.

Jones Welsh is a performer, administrator, and arts activist. He received his degree in theatre and dance from the University of Washington in 2000, then founded 501©3 performing arts organization Making Faces Productions, which has now become Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble (www.notmanapart.com). As Managing Director and Associate Choreographer of Not Man Apart, Jones contributes to the company’s annual Flagship Productions (to date: Pericles Redux, Titus Redux, Hercules Furens) and co-produces the annual LA Improv Dance Festival and the Somatic Movement Arts Festival. Completing five years with Diavolo Dance Theatre (www.diavolo.org), he now collaborates with the Diavolo as an Artistic Associate, teaching and performing with the group across the globe. Jones works closely with many other LA based companies, including Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre (formerly Collage Dance Theatre), Invertigo Dance Theatre, Intention Dance Theatre, Keith Glassman and Dancers, String Theory, Leonix Movement Theatre Ensemble, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, and many more. In addition to teaching athletic modern dance at Universities and studios, Jones is also the Adult Program Manager at Broadway Gymnastics School (www.broadwaygym.com) and teaches private Contact Improvisation and Dance workshops.

Take a look at all the classes Jones teaches at www.joneswelsh.com

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.

Involved with CI since 1998, I split my time between the growing CI dance scene in Santa Barbara and the very happening CI scene in Western Massachusetts. Currently running an outdoor Jam in Santa Barbara (July 20 – Sept. 7, 2011) See listing under “Ongoing Jams/Classes”. Teaching classes periodically.

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.

Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist, Halprin Life-Art Process Facilitator, Continuum Movement teacher, Dancer

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.

David Lakein (Chicago/Berlin) has been dancing contact improvistion since 1988 on four continents. Known for inquisitive nature and experimental methods, he is a well-respected teacher dedicated to his students and a rigorous learning process. Central to how he conveys the joys and possibilities of the contact dance form is his extensive multi-layered and genre-crossing improvisation practice, embodying a range of research and performance approaches. An interdisciplinary artist, performer, organiser and writer, David studied Philosophy & Literature and Acting & Directing in college, Improvisation, Composition, Release-Technique and Anatomical Explorations in Berlin and at The School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and recently received his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He collaborates extensively with other artists, and performs-researches-teaches around the world.

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.

CI based movement studies embracing the liberating subtleties in flow/stillness, being present, transitions, relating, incorporation of sound/silence and visual material. Healing Arts.

Coordinator for Contact Improv in Ithaca, NY

I go to jams, you go to jams. Let’s Dance!!!

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.

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

Eager to connect with other contacters in the New Hanover County area, and throughout SE North Carolina.

Teaching workshops, classes and series in Improvisational Contact Dance in the US and New Zealand for over 24 years, performing Improvisational Contact for same and teaching and performing Improvisational Dance and Theater for over 31 years throughout the US and Canada.

Paula Byrne is the product of a jazz drummer (father) and figure skater (mother). She spent her early years in ballet and modern dance, working as a professional dancer from 1981 to 1989. She left the dance world at the ripe old age of 27, realizing that a career based on expertise and appearance was short-lived.

It would be many years before she found dance again, this time, her own natural movement. She stumbled upon ecstatic dance in 1995 at Breitenbush Hot Springs, where Vinn Marti was hosting a workshop. That weekend changed her life forever. She knew she had found her calling and began her path as a movement teacher. She studied extensively with Gabrielle Roth and core 5Rhythms teachers and apprenticed with Vinn Marti from 1996 to 2002.

Paula was an Oracle Developer in the high-tech field for 20 years. She left that career in 2005 to devote herself full-time to her soul-work in assisting people to remember and reconnect to the body as a source of wisdom, pleasure and joy in the present moment.

Paula is the creator of OneDance™, a moving meditation based on the 7 chakras, and leads classes and workshops in Wild Grace™, Soul Motion, Contact Improv, Authentic Movement and Blindfolded Trance Dance. She is Owner and Director of SomaSpace, offering her studio to artists, dancers, writers, musicians and creatives as place to practice and present their craft.

researcher/teacher/performer of c.i. for 25 years, based in Portland, OR

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.

Kristin Horrigan has been practicing CI since 1998 and has taught across the east coast and midwest of the US, as well as in Germany and Argentina. Currently, she lives and teaches in southern Vermont.

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