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Stanislav Barysh (Stan Potoku) is a musician from Ukraine, livefor the last 3 years in Moldova and participate in ADDM activity as a performer in co – production with Dance Modern group “Voices” and as organizer of the local art events for kids and adults. He develops his author method “Intuitive singing”, experiments in combination “voice and movement” material. Stanislav plays on various instrumentsand dances contact improvisation. He is a teacher and psychologist in Art Studio “Happy Kids”. His educational and professional qualification is: pedagogy & psychology.

Found CI on his twenties, got so involved that went to study dance for three years, gratuated, and has ever since worked as an individual artist performing his solo works as well as performed within different improvisation groups and choreographies. However CI has stayed and stays his main practise and he has been teaching CI in various places like Moscow, St. Petersburgh, Siberia, Ibiza, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Brasil and Of course his "home" town Helsinki, Finland. For the last 6 years his most inspiring teachers have been the fellow teachers and dancers of Helsinki CI community with whom he is also organising the "skiing on skin" festival in Finland. At the present he is more and more interested in teaching improvisation, awareness and presence, what ever those words might mean.

Dancer, Choreographer, dancing coach, member of Association for developing of modern Dance in Moldova, co-organizer of international festivals of modern dance in Moldova, teacher of the children dance school “Fantasy”, dancer and choreographer in modern Dance group “Voices», co director of the “Scotch” Dance group. Braga Olga works as a choreographer and dancer-performer. She is a member of the Association for Contemporary Dance Development in Moldova Moldova ADDM. Olga participates in international projects and has co-organized Moldovan dance festivals since 2005. She dances, improvises, teaches, takes part in international projects and performances (as a dancer and choreographer) and travels. http://theprojecthome.org/

Gaining experience and developing in various techniques, she is looking for an answer to the question about the source of movement as a means of interpersonal communication for each of us.

She focuses mainly on the development of the ability of a fluid and free existence in accordance with the natural rythm as well as looking for its abstractness. She relays on the awarness of the body and movement, stimulation, apontaneity and finding harmony between the body and the ming and drawing impulses from the environment. She bases her work on the technique of Marta Graham, Release, phisical. Her new inspration is Gaga (Batsheva Dance Company).

A graduate of University of London - Performance Studies: Dance; dance instructor (PAS - Polish Sports Academy in Warsaw), co-founder of Alternative Group, personal trainer (PAS).

She took part in many conventions and performances, including the Move it shows "at Olympia Kensington and" Collabo "- Stradford Circus Theater - London, Great Britain. She is trying to be open to different styles, deepening her knowledge and experience thanks to Susan Sentler, Katy Crick, Katy Mason, Athina Valha - Laban, Eva Recacha, Akane Abe - The Place, London; Stephanie Batten Bland - New York City, Erica Sobol - Los Angeles, (contact / improvisation, contemporary, choreography).

"Every day, moment, experience (...) every sound, sigh and surroundings give you inspiration, the inspiration for a new movement, a new you”

In life, he values the most friendships and wisdom of people who surround him. He is always willing to acquire new skills, which then always open up new opportunities for him.

Theatre and film, he says, is fun and passion, that sometimes allows him to rise above the ground.

A man with a unique sense of humour, who does not like narrow-minded people, but tolerance and respect for others are the features that shape his worldview.

Movement and new media enthusiast. She supports the foundation in managing social media. If it does not organize the world in front of the monitor, she regenerates in nature.

I danced and toured internationally with several Israeli dance-companies,
including Bat-Sheva, Kol-Demama and Karmon. Since 1985 I have worked
as an independent dancer, dance-teacher and choreographer, and performed
nationally and at various dance-festivals in the USA, Europe and Japan.
I have participated in the two productions for western dancers created by
Ushio Amagatsu, creator of the Sankai-Juku Butoh company, at the "Jacob's
Pillow Dance Festival", USA, in 1988 and at "Spiral Hall", Tokyo, in
1991. I practiced Contact-Improvisation since 1985, dancing and teaching
Improvisational-Dance for the last twenty years. Currently I am teaching
dancers and theater-actors at the "Seminar Hakibbutzim Teachers' College"
in Tel-Aviv and lead workshops in Israel, Europe and the USA.
I hold a B.A. in Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology from the
Tel-Aviv University (1978) and a graduate, M.F.A degree in Dance from
Smith College, Northampton, Mass., USA (1989). I was trained in Post-
Graduate Gestalt training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Ohio,
specializing in Body-Process and a member of the EAGT, the European
Association for Gestalt Therapy. I am currently practicing bodymind Gestalt
therapy in private practice and teaching it at the Tel Aviv University, School
of Social Work and other training programs for integrative and expressive
psychotherapies.

In the Fund, she assists in management and coordination of projects. 

Being a qualified psychologist, she stimulates proper development 
of children as part of her profession. 
She has been a contact/impro dancer for three years. She pays 
much attention to body awareness which is crucial in constructing 
one's identity and decision-making skills as well as the movement 
as a tool for effective communication and building relationships. 

Since 2016 she has been involved in SzurSure art collective. 
In her work, she merges her professional psychological knowledge 
with dance experience for training her group 
in building secure relationships based on intimate family bonds. 

Dancer, actor, choreographer, director - founder and artistic director of Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre Professional stage career since 1987 (Henryk Tomaszewski?s Wroclaw Pantomime Theatre 1987-1990; Wojciech Misiuro?s Expression Theatre 1990-1992). Graduated from the Department of Philosophy and History, the University of Wrocław, in 1990.

In 1993, he founded Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre, where he works as a director, choreographer, dancer, and performs in most of its productions; as yet, has performed at numerous festivals in Poland and Europe, as well as India, USA, Israel, and Palestine. For artistic achievements awarded by the Mayor of Gdan?sk (1998), the Mayor of Gdynia (1999), the Minister of National Education (1999), the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship (2006), Theatre Pasta International Theatre Awards - India (2007). In 2010 awarded a medal “Meritorious for Polish Culture” by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Frequently supported with art grants by Gdan?sk City Council and the Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship.

As a choreographer and stage movement director, he has co-operated with many theatres in Poland. The drama performances he has recently directed are: Cyrano de Bergerac, in Modrzejewska?s Theatre in Legnica, and Green Zoo, in OCH Theatre in Warsaw. As a choreographer, he has yet participated in nearly 60 productions, such as: Short Stories for Children (dir. by P. Cieplak, The National Theatre, Warsaw), Albos?my to jacy tacy (dir. by P. Cieplak, Powszechny Theatre, Warsaw), Tango and the Cosmos (dir by J. Jarocki, The National Theatre, Warsaw), The Power (dir. by J. Englert, The National Theatre, Warsaw), Acropolis Reconstructions (dir. by Michael Marmarinos, Contemporary Theatre, Wrocław), Delhi Dance (dir. by I. Wyrypajew, The National Theatre, Warsaw). Lead roles in Polish Drama Theatres: Charlie (Charlie A Boxer, Piotr Cieplak), Caliban (The Tempest, William Sheakspeare), David (Unidentified Human Remains, Brad Fraser), Clarin (Life Is a Dream, Calderon de la Barca). He has participated in many international productions, e.g.: The Rape of Europe – Landscape X (Intercult, Stockholm), In the body, and Papugaj (Baltic Dance University, Gdan?sk), Drop Dead Gorgeous (co- production with Vincent Dance Theatre, UK), Several Witty Observations - Trans Danse Europe (Avignon, Brussels, Helsinki, Prague, Reykjavik), Out of Bounds and Factor T (Dance Advance, Philadelphia, USA), Co-Operation (CDN – Paris, Festival La Batie – Geneva, The Baltic State Opera House - Gdan?sk), ODYS-SEAS – a project held on the premises of Gdan?sk Shipyard.

Between 1997-2000, in Gombrowicz?s City Theatre in Gdynia, he patronized a cycle of artistic events titled “A Day of Beautiful Society”. Between 2002-2007, he coordinated the artistic programme of Gdan?sk Dance Corporation Festival. Since 1990 he has given theatre workshops and dance classes in Poland: The State Ballet School in Gdansk, School of Acting and Singing at the Musical Theatre in Gdynia, The Theatre Academy in Warsaw, and abroad: The Czech Republic, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, UK, Ukraine, USA, Zimbabwe.

NICOLAS CAMBAS. 35, Argentina.Nicolas is a scene and experimental artist who researches in the fields of art, therapy and society. His main tools are empathy and play. He is a professional clown and clown teacher who´s been developing his own particular style in performance, scene direction and pedagogy for more than 14 years. He is a nomad. His voyages brought him to go in depth with the magic world of Andean-Amazonean Shamanism, exploring rituals, musical roots and cosmovisions.

Ray Chung is a performer, teacher, engineer, and artist who has a passion for dancing which he likes to share with other people. His main focus is improvisation and he has worked with Contact Improvisation since 1979 as part of improvisational performance practice and integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement. Ray has worked with the leading proponents of Contact Improvisation and regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists. His work has been featured at numerous national and international festivals and venues. Currently based in San Francisco, Ray regularly teaches abroad.

Tomasz Ciesielski - Performer, dancer, theater researcher. Since 2009 member of the Theatre Association Chorea, during this time worked within the projects A ntic/Dance in ReConstruction 2010, O ratorium Dance Project 2011. In 2011 started cooperation with Granhøj Dans (Aarhus, Denmark) finalized with the international productions M en&Mahler oraz R ite of Spring Extended, both awarded Årets Reumert Vinder for the best dance performance of the season. Following the individual doctoral studies program at the University of Lodz concentrated on the anthropology of
theatre, possibilities of applying neurosciences and cognitive sciences into dance and theatre studies. Author of the first polish monograph presenting advances in dance neuroaesthetics: “The Dancing Mind. Dance and Movement Theatre in Neurocognitive Perspective” – leading workshops on the same topic in Poland.

Versatile artist percussionist, artist, intuitiveist, author of poetic texts. Searching through drumming and surroundings for soundscapes and colors. Music created by him corresponds with contemporary percussion music, minimal, improvised, noiseful.
Just as in his artistic creativity he focuses on simplicity and austerity of form. In his playing instruments gain a new dimension, lose their conventional image they start to be the tools of sound, are used to create peculiar factures,
reveals their internal energy. He also uses objects rarely associated with music, often uses a bow.
He performs solo and with other musicians. He also teaches art and music for children.

Katarzyna Dańska - body / movement coach, certified dance/movement psychotherapist , co-founder of Warsaw's Centre for Dance Movement Therapy Iba. A specialist in a movement analysis: trainings in  Kestenberg Movement Profile and Laban Movement Analysis Bartenieff Fundamentals Studies. She works therapeutically for the Daily Department of Neurosis, trains students of Sexual Therapy School and Postgraduate Studies in Art Therapy. Conducts personal development sessions Embodied Change and creates individual profiles of movement. An Authentic Movement facilitator with a diploma Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy. A member ot the international group of AM profesional practitioners. A contact improvisation enthusiast. She is developing the Laban for Contact program.

From years I have been fascinated by how obvious is the relationship between our movement and our traits, beliefs and vision of the world.  In my work I am accompanying those who by raising body awarness and the possibility of its movement develop in the direction of naturality, expressive freedom and a sense of ecological responsibility. I really like meeting people on the non-verbal level. I sense these meetings as deeply true and undistorted by intellectual noise.

www.terapiatancem-iba.pl

Began his dance career in 1975 with Linda Rubin in Vancouver, Canada. After three years of study in contemporary techniques, he quickly gravitated toward instantaneous composition and contact improvisation which allowed him a greater freedom of expression while incorporating many other disciplines such as gymnastics, athletics, yoga, meditation, martial arts, Alexander Technique and Release Technique. Formerly artistic director of AH HA Productions, Andrew has dedicated himself to the research, education, development and dissemination of improvisation as a performing art for 38 years. His work has evolved through on-going collaborations and various investigations of performance, composition, spatial design, multi-media and movement techniques. He studied and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members of contact improvisation and has been influential in the development of contact improvisation worldwide since 1976. Andrew danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard, and Jean-Pierre Perreault, performed with the dance improvisation collectives The Improvisational Movement Fund, The Echo Case and Discovery Bal, and has collaborated in creation and performance with Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Marc Boivin, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Benno Voorham, Ray Chung, Lin Snelling, and Benoît Lachambre among many others. He is known and respected internationally in the field of instantaneous choreography and contact/compositional improvisation and has taught and performed throughout North America and Europe as well as South America, Mexico, Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel and Russia. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood’s current interests lie within the immediate and fullest use of all the senses, the subtle interplay between intuition and instinct, the dilation of the attention to it’s fullest, and the finely tuned use of the perceptions in performance.

THE MIND, BODY AND HEART OF CONTACT IMPROVISATION (open to all curious minds and playful bodies)

In this course we will focus on reaching a balance between the mental, physical and emotional qualities used to create an engaging contact duet, trio or larger contact ensemble. In this approach, the body must learn to abandon a certain quality of willfulness in order to open to new sensations and to experience the natural flow of movement. Cultivating an open-receptive attitude and being completely attentive in each and every moment will enable us to stay attuned to what is actually taking place and to remain present. Our warm-up and preparation will lead us to the practice of various skills such as rolling smoothly, falling safely, soaring, using resistance, refining our timing, being upside down, supporting and giving weight effortlessly, flowing through unfamiliar circumstances and extending our personal range of movement. These skills will also help us recognize our familiar choices and go beyond our habitual, known responses. On an emotional level, making contact with another being implies forging a nurturing environment, which allows us to take risks, exchange, communicate and witness.

Newpower Dykiert ( Jakub Dykiert )

Multiinstrumentalist. Improvisor. For many years, present on stage as a musician or performer.
Participant in experimental theater group inspired by art of Tadeusz Kantor. For Few years,
Inspired by Contact Improvisation as a form of autoidentifying and psychotherapy used individual and on stage . Musician in Domowe Melodie and experimental duo Kubatwice Improwise.
Composer of music for liveact performances and the great political philosopher of unmasking and
patiency. Member in Army of Love ((( * ))) 

As a professional dancer and improviser, with a long established background of working in education, health and community contexts, Katy lives to dance. She is known for her work as company director of Touchdown Dance in the UK, Europe, South America, USA, Australia and more recently in India. Katy has worked collaboratively in performance projects with Angus Balbernie, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Julyen Hamilton and Steve Paxton amongst others. Katy has been dancing CI for over 25 years as teacher and performer and has made several short Dance films, including a major Capture award to make a 10 minute film of contact improvisation called SENSE-8. Katy is BMC® practitioner and Teacher and she directs the Somatic Movement Education Program in the UK and the Performing Arts Application program with Mark Taylor (U.S.) in the UK and Argentina. Katy is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist, (DMP) and is writing a PhD on the impact of touch in clinical practice. She is also setting up an MA course in DMP which includes 6 BMC courses. A lover being in nature, of physicality and somatic practice, Katy states; "I have a strong belief in centred, mindful, movement practice to support full bodied, dynamically rich and generous dancing."

Joe has been practicing and teaching contact improvisation for far too long. He has twice achieved the state of Obsidian Entanglement, in which the improviser gains the body of a lion and the feet of an eagle. But he continues to search for the mythical seventh level of improvisation. If you try to use your vocabulary on him he will fuck you up. Instead, let's see how our senses react to uncertainty.

Frey Faust began performing on the street as a pantomime, dancer-actor in the family troupe at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen, Nita Little, the co-founder of the movement, introduced him to contact improvisation. He then worked with Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Stephen Petronio and Donald Byrd to name a few, and has studied capoiera, african dance, fencing, karate, aikido, jazz, ballet, yoga, percussion, physics and anatomy. In the 90's Frey devised The Axis Syllabus, an open-source resource for movement analysis and instruction, with which he hopes to impart a structurally supported basis for artistic expression to his students. He continues to create, perform and teach across the globe to this day!

Sylwia Federico worked for many years as a teacher in public schools and manager of cultural projects in several organizations in Warsaw. She studied English Philology and Cultural Studies but mostly she was gaining the knowledge from international training courses, practical workshops and direct experience. For several years she was responsible for international cooperation and promotion of film festival such us OFF/ON Warszawa or Grand OFF: Independent FIlm Awards. She was a Vice-Director of Re:visions Independent Art Invasion which was promoting over 100 organizations. For many years she has been organizing international projects finances by European Union. Presently, she works as a trainer and facilitator of international training courses on personal development and non-formal methods of learning.

Actress, dancer, performer and cultural animator . A specialist in drama and interactive theater. Co-founder art and social projects. Graduated choreography (specializing in contemporary dance) in Krakow Artistic Alternative and the instructor course "Improvisation movement and symbolism of the body" at the Institute of Dynamic Movement and Dance in Essen (Germany).She completed LMA training - Laban Movement Analysis at Laban Centre in London and dance notation (kinetografia) at the Institute of Choreology (Poznan). Courses in acting, dance, choreography, working with a group, creating and managing projects. Co-operation with Poste Restante group, Serbian Theater Plavo Pozoriste and participation in an interdisciplinary program of coaching for artists "The Field" in Tanzfabrik (Berlin).Act within the Warsaw Kinetography Laboratory and the Association of Polish Choreology Forum. Gustav Holoubek in Warsaw - "Young Scene"). At her dance and choreographic work, uses contemporary and jazz dance technique, authentic movement, the system LMA, CI techniques and other improvisational techniques. Freelance artist and author, leads workshops in drama, theater, dance and work with the movement.
Interested in using dance and theatrical activities in personal development, education and therapy.

Sergey Golovnea works as a choreographer and dancer-performer. He is a member of the Association for the Development of Contemporary Dance in Moldova ADDM. Sergey participates in international projects, festivals, has choreographed for various dance groups and has co-organized Moldovan dance festivals since 2001. He dance, improvise, teach, make choreography, take part in international projects and performances (as dancers and as choreographers) and travel. Teaching geography: Moldova, Ukraine, Belorussia, Bulgaria, Israel, Estonia, Russia, Latvia, N.Irelland, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Romania, Hungary. He cooperates with drama theatre in Moldova, as choreographer and dancer works with professional dancers, actors, students, amateurs, with children and adults, works in cooperation with musicians and video makers. He is organizer of the many dance events in local and international level in Moldova, international co production and educational projects in Moldova, co – organizer of the professional performance projects in Moldova, Belorussia, Ukraine, and Georgia.

Graduated from Wrocław-based 13 Stunt School. He initiated The String of the Body workshop dedicated to exploring expression, presence, dramaturgy and creativity in martial arts within the path of Warrior-Performer. To find inspiration, Jakub travels to Brazil, where he documents his expeditions and takes active part in candomblé rituals. He has co-created many performances, including Animan – I Am That and Madhouse, and performs movement improvisations on stage to live music. Jakub trained in martial arts – Japanese judo and Brazilian capoeira – for many years in Brazil and in many European countries.

Pedagogue-therapist, art workshops and emotional education trainer. Founder of PTRD KREDKA. The author of the program in the field of emotional education "Brawo JA" and methods of working with sequences. She trains teachers, educators and animators in the field of creative work with children and students of art therapy and fun pedagogy. She runs development groups for women and organises summer trips for girls.

"I am interested in broadly understood personal development, I am searching for my own path as an artist, creation. I am passionate about contact improvisation, meditation in motion and various forms of manual activities. I am a sensitive observer of the world, people and events. I care about balance in my personal and professional life, about awareness of HERE and NOW. "

http://www.kredka.waw.pl/

Izabela Guzek – one of the first certified dance/movement psychotherapists in Poland, she co-creates Dance/Movement Therapy Center IBA. A graduate from the dance and movement psychotherapy training in Polish DMT Institute, where she teaches students now. She completed the Authentic Movement Training certified by Institute for Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy, she continues her practice in the international AM practitioners group. Currently in a training „Ways of Seeing. Dance Movement Psychotherapy with children and their families” led by dr. Suzi Tortora.

Izabela conducts psychotherapy and authentic movement sessions, she leads trainings for teachers and therapists and authorial workshops “Embodied Changes”. Co-author of books about dance/movement psychotherapy. Engaged in co-creating a community of DMT therapists in Poland and Europe.

Spontaneous dance and authentic movement are a perfect way of being for me as well as the best way to express myself when other ways do not work. The body work helps me to stay present and to stay alive in relation to myself and to the world. I often search for answers through the movement and I know that’s the best way to find them.

Contact: www.terapiatancem-iba.pl

Magdalena Haftner is from Austria, she is dedicated to the theatre as an actress and teacher inside and outside of Europe, in cooperation with Goethe-Institutes, Austrian and German embassies, international schools and universities. In Berlin and London she graduated at LISPA (London International School of Performing Arts), based on physical theatre technique of Jacques Lecoq. Magdalena completed her training as a theatre pedagogue and director of games at the Institute for Applied Theatre Vienna and did her Master degrees at the University of Vienna specialized in social and inclusive education. 

Dances in and around performance. Born in northern Ontario, he lives in San Francisco since 1982 and tours internationally. His performances engage improvisation, ritual, collaboration, and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, post/Modern dance, activist art, the Bay Area, wicca, punk, contact improvisation, and queer-feminism motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s work. Keith’s 2016 collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, and the collaboratives Blank Map and Turbulence.

www.circozero.org

Photographer, psychologist, traveller. He made many photo reportages about Asia, for example, India (Kerala, Goa), Vietnam, Thailand, and also outside of Asia, for example, Cape Verde Islands, Ukraine (Hutsul region, Crimea). He documented many Mediterranean cruises, including Croatia, Italy, Slovenia and Greece (Cyclades).). As a native Varsovian, he has been documenting the dynamically changing capital of Poland for years. Among the topics of his interests, there are also social and artistic events. As a photographer, he many times participated in the Equality Parade. In 2008, he accompanied the Kolorofon band at the PULP magazine awards (Miazgi 2008), in the Asia-Pacific Museum he made a reportage of the Warsaw Gamelan Group concert during the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of this institution.

As part of his cooperation with the PERFORM Art Foundation, he has documented, among others, the "Dance Inter-Space" project (realised in cooperation with the Theater Institute) and the 4th International Contact Festival of Improvisation Warsaw Flow.

In his works, he combines the skills of an observer-psychologist with the ability to think with images. He draws inspiration from the works of Tomasz Tomaszewski - one of the best Polish photographers who has been astounding in his reportage for years. He admires the photography of Howard Schatz, in particular, the legendary series of underwater photographs from the 90s and the beautiful acts of dancers.

Was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  He graduated as a classical and modern dancer from the University of Music and Theater in Hannover, Germany, and then studied several contemporary dance and composition techniques in New York (USA) on a stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service.  There, he discovered contact improvisation for himself in 1994 while working together with Daniel Lepkoff, Alito Alessi, and later Martin Keogh, Brenton Cheng and Nancy Stark Smith.  From 1998 until 2002, Jaroschinski directed the dance company of the City Theater of Hildesheim, Germany, and included contact improvisation as part of the dancers' training and the creation of his works.  Thereafter, he got commissioned to create choreographies for the German National Ballets of Hannover, Karlsruhe and Munich a. o. – so far, he has created some 100 dance pieces which have been seen in Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Facilitating contact improvisation classes and workshops more regularly since 2004, Ralf Jaroschinski has taught numerous times at festivals such as the "West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam (wcciJAM)" in Berkeley, the "Portland Regional Jam", the "Santa Cruz Dance Festival", and the Northern California Dance Collective‘s "NCDC Summer Dance Camp" in the Southern Sierras near Fresno, US, at the "Encuentro Internacional de Improvisación por Contacto" in Lima and the "Festival Internacional de Ballet" in Trujillo, Peru, at “Campinas em Contato”, the "Encontro internacional de contato improvisação São Paulo (EICI)", "Contact in Rio" in Rio de Janeiro, the "Festival internacional de contato improvisação na natureza, Florianópolis" and "Sul em Contato" in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the "Pfingst-Jam Potsdam", the "Internationales Tanzfestival Ingolstadt", and the "Tanzworkshop Stuttgart-Oeffingen" in Germany, at "Touch & Play" in Cardona, Spain, and at the "Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival (ICIF)" in Israel.

He has taught contact improvisation at various dance studios and schools in Colombia, Argentina, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Israel, as well as at the "Arizona State University (ASU)" in Phoenix, the "Nova Southeastern University (NSU)" in Fort Lauderdale, and the "Florida Atlantic University (FAU)" in Boca Raton, USA, at the "Universidad de Lima", the "Escuela Nacional de Arte Dramático (ENSAD)" and the "Escuela Nacional Superior de Ballet (ENSB)" in Lima, at the "Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)" in Porto Alegre, the "Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR)" and the Faculty of the Arts (FAP) in Curitiba, at the "Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)", and at the "Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)" in Salvador, Brazil, at the University of Nantes, France, at the "Codarts University for the Arts" in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Palucca University for Dance Dresden and the University of Tübingen, Germany, and at the "Dans och Circushögskolan (DOCH)" in Stockholm, Sweden.  He worked together with the "Centro Cultural Brasil Alemanha (CCBA)" in Recife, Brazil, the "Centro Cultural de España en Lima", and the "Goethe-Institut Lima" in Peru.

Ralf Jaroschinski has performed contact improvisation together with Nita Little, Ray Chung, Benno Voorham, Felix Ruckert, Mirva Mäkinen, Brenton Cheng, Tim O’Donnell, Lior Ophir, Fernanda Carvalho Leite, and Vitali Khononov among many others and in scores designed by Brandin Steffensen (New York) and Scott Wells (San Francisco) and Barbara Pfundt (Hildesheim).  He has designed and staged several contact improvisation scores for "Danza Común" in Bogotá, Colombia, "Terpsicore Proyectos" in Lima and for "Dans och Circushögskolan (DOCH)" in Stockholm, and in cooperation with Rosemary Hannon, Sean Feit, and Andrew Wass among others, he has produced several dance concerts based entirely on contact improvisation in the US and Germany.

At last, Jaroschinski has trained the members of the dance companies "Karen Peterson & Dancers" in Miami, the Peruvian "Compañía de ballet de Trujillo", "Danza Viva", and "Ballet San Marcos" in Lima, the Brazilian Curitiba Guaíra Ballet (BTG), and the Swedish "GöteborgsOperans Danskompani" and "Cullberg Baletten" in Stockholm in contact improvisation.

She is a contact dancer, an improviser, a performer and a psychotherapist. In the last years she
has been performing with Fundacja Sztuka Ciała, Fundacja Artystyczna PERFORM and experimental
choir „Gre Badanie”.She works with people in many different places, such as a hospital, psychiatric ambulant
treatment, on the stage and in the workshops. She loves to create the space for meeting in the
movement. The ideas presented by psychotherapists: F.Perls (Gestalttherapy), L.S.Greenberg (Emotion
Focused Therapy) and C.Rogers (P ersonCentered Counselling) have given her the basis of understanding the relationship and meeting with other human being.

Director, translator, author of dance theatre scenarios, theatre producer, manager of the Zawirowania Dance Theater. Włodzimierz graduated from the faculties of Theater and Directing at the Theater Academy in Warsaw. He created about 30 independent directions (including Opera za try grosze and Poskromienie złośnicy), he staged his own adaptations (Wielki testament Villona, Pamiętnik z okresu dojrzewania Gombrowicza), and created numerous translations (Okruchy czułości Simona and Klucz Razumowskiej made in the TV Theater), he introduced many theatre work for the first time to Polish scenes (Pterodaktyle Silvera, Disco Pigs Walsha, Works of all Shakespeare Long, Singer and Winfield). He is an author of screenplays for dance theatre, ranging from Insatiability (Nienasycenie) and Only once in a lifetime ( Tylko raz w życiu- National Opera in Warsaw) to Hug me (Przytul mnie), If you love- kill (Jeśli kochasz zabij), or Innocent when you dream (Stara Prochoffnia). He is a producer of many theatrical performances (all works of Shakespeare had been played 1100 times in 12 years), he organized 3 editions of contemporary plays reviews in Stara Prochoffnia, he is a president of the Contemporary Scene Foundation (Fundacja Scena Współczesna) and is the main organizer of the Dance Theaters Festivals Zawirowania, manager of the Zawirowania dance theatre and chairman of the dance committee at the Culture Office of the capital city of Warsaw.

He is a film director and Iberian by education. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Theater Corporation, in which he co-created several performances and video installations. In 2010, he began a permanent cooperation with the Dramatic Theater. Gustaw Holoubek in Warsaw. During this period, he made several dozen films, including projections and trailers for performances, promotional films, podcasts and theatre registrations. In 2010 and 2012, he created festival TV and video setting for the Warsaw Central Theater International Festival. In addition, he collaborated with the Studio Theater, Teatr 21, Teatr Teatralny, Grupa Studnia O, Amnesty International Polska, the Association of Drama Practitioners STOP-KLATKA and the Association of Theater Educators..Since 2012, he has been cooperating with the Polonia Theater, Och-Teatr and Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw

Is a Czech dancer, teacher and choreographer living in Finland.
She graduated as Master of Dance Art from the Academy of Performing Arts Prague. She works in the field of contemporary dance and contact improvisation.
She is searching for fully integrated movable body, connection with physical forces and presence. In her choreographic work and body composition she researches different images, qualities, emotions and concepts. In this way she investigates the physical expression of being in dance and life.
Her work is presented in Finland and abroad. She is also involved in the organization of a Finnish contact improvisation festival Skiing on skin.
Ilonas life is blessed with a wonderful dancing family of a husband and two sons.

Since a few years Bernd Knappe is exclusively engaged in contactimprovisation, after freelance work as painter, musician and architect. In order to build up local CI-communities  he is teaching all around in Europe - especially interested in the question, how people without a specialised dance background body-training and knowledge can find an easy, effortless and playful way into physical improvisation as an arts form. He supports and initiates integrative dance projects and cooperates  with "DanceAbility International"

video: http://youtu.be/KEonTrmxv-w

documentation: www.dancedancedance.de

Was born in Lublana in 1978. He trained Judo and practiced singing from an early age, then began dancing with ballroom competitions. In 2007, he suffered a head injury that shifted the focus of his work towards the potential of the present moment. An in-depth observation of Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations video triggered what became an ongoing improvisation practice and culminated in solo performances like the Goldberg Variations, For Juliano Mer-Khamis, and a research on duet composition Still. He’s worked with Paxton on his solo Bound (1982) and the Ashley/Paxton’s opera Quicksand. Since 2012 he’s been active in contact improvisation as researcher, dancer and teacher.

Graduated the Department of Dance Creation of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After getting a lot of experiences as a dancer in the Slovak companies he worked abroad – Switzerland (chor. Roberto Galvan), Austria (chor. Willi Dorner). He took part in the creation of few projects of the Slovak choreographer Zuzana Hájková, last cooperation was the production created in the State Opera in Banská Bystrica. Since 1993 he started create independently, in 1995 he was awarded in the Choreography competition Bratislava´95. In 1996 he co-founded Artyci Dance Company with Zuna Kozankova. The goal of the dance company is creative as well as pedagogical activity. He develops his teaching and performing skills during many stages and study in the workshops. Regularly he studied in the workhops with Bill Young, A.Harwood, I. Wolfe, D. Zambrano, and other teachers. From 1995 till 2001 he studies movement metod “Axis Sylabus” created by choreographer and pedagogue Frey Faust. In 1999 he worked intensively as a dancer in Zurich/ Switzerland, in the Company Denise Lampart, Molteni of Philippe Egli and in State Opera of Zurich. Since 1999 he is regularly teaching in Poland (Wroclaw, Warszaw, Poznan, Kracow) Since 2001 regularly teaches in Prague. Since 2003 he started to teach regularly in SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, where in the school year 2005/ 2006 he worked as an assistant of director and a resident teacher. In 2008 he has been invited as a guest teacher and choreographer at the University of Calgary. Since 2008 is guest teacher in Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds and since 2009 in Tanz Quartier Wien and Konservatorium Wien University. From the year 2010 he start to collaborate with Grotowski Institut in Wroclaw, in Theatre ZAR and Studio Matejka (P) and as a guest teacher in TIP, School for Dance, Improvisation and Performance, Freiburg (D).

Psychologist. She organises original workshops on communication, voice and movement and has experience in working with youth, adults and seniors. She draws from various methods of work, including contact of improvisation, mindfulness, applied drama and work with the process.

She works in the field of performance, working with voice and movement. Currently, she cooperates with Stella Polaris Theater (Norway). Olga organized the first Polish laboratory festival Lab Bazaar Contact Improvisation in Warsaw. She cooperated with the Perform Foundation as part of the 4th Warsaw Flow Festival and Coordinated the project titled "PoRuszenie".

She runs her own artistic and research project ‘Ritual Meetings’ on the subject of meeting, femininity and masculinity, during which demonstrations are held "behind the meeting" in the form of performance.

She has experience in project coordination. Her passion is communication both in the dimension of movement, voice improvisation, interpersonal relations and information architecture in IT solutions. She draws inspiration from travelling and observing the diversity of life.

Ezra LeBank is an internationally recognized movement specialist. His performance and teaching work is rooted in yoga, non-traditional dance partnering (including contact improvisation), biomechanics, and circus acrobatics. As the Head of Movement at California State University, Long Beach and Director of the AcroYoga Research Institute, he has performed and taught worldwide over the past 14 years at universities, festivals, and conferences including The Juilliard School, Purchase College, The University of Montana, Portland State University, Smith College, PUSH Physical Theatre, Divine Play AcroYoga Festival, Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Earthdance, AcroYoga Montreal, and many more. Ezra holds an advanced RYT-500 status with the Yoga Alliance, is a Russian-trained Biomechanics Instructor, and the founder of Dynamic Partnering, a creative movement practice centered on removing blocks to increase our velocity and capacity across a variety of partner movement modalities.His movement philosophy is simple: "We are each angels with one wing. We can only fly embracing each other." –Lucretius. Learn more about Ezra at www.bossyflyer.com

Watch him dance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hHOgA2J9vo

and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyaie2QcAz0

Acrobatic Improvisation

Navigating the twists and turns of partner acrobatics and contact improvisation, Acrobatic Improvisation, aka Acroprovisation, investigates heightened sensitivity in a dynamic partnering context. Utilizing unconventional surfaces and hinges, acrobatic practice opens to improvised possibilities, inviting dancers and acrobats to gain freedom and trust in a variety of structures to expand partnering capacity in contact improvisation.

Samuli Lehesaari is a teacher, dancer, and at the moment he is finishing his MA in psychology. He has been practicing CI since the early 2000. He studied contemporary dance and improvisation in Germany. Other influences include yoga, contemplative practices, and authentic movement. He is one of the organisers of the Finnish Skiing on Skin CI festival. Due to a keen interest in pedagogy and psychology, Samuli has looked at movement and CI as a way of supporting embodied presence, creativity, communication, and awareness in relation to oneself and others. He dances also simply for the sheer joy and sense of meaning that arises from allowing the movement to lead the way. 

“From the beginning i was very impressed by the novel possibilities contact improvisation offered me to discover, create, and communicate. I saw it literally as a new fascinating language, a language that inherently asked me to find a more genuine source from which to relate to others and myself. What is also special for me in this language is that it allows itself to be redefined again and again. As we change, the form and the content of the way we speak the language is allowed to change.

Translator and interpreter from/to English and Spanish.

Michał Maciaszek is AcroYoga enthusiast. He encountered it for the first time i 2012 on the beaches of Goa in India. He is a participant of international workshops, Elemental Immersion in Athens, Lunar Immersion in London. AcroYoga JAMbassador in 2013 in Warsaw. First and only certified AcroYoga teacher in Poland in 2014. He regularly practices yoga and calisthenics, and deals with gymnastics, acrobatics and different modern related fields (parkour, tricking, xma) since childhood.

http://www.acroyoga.org/app-teacher-directory/michal-maciaszek

A graduated of management from the Social Sciences Academy. She coordinates and promotes projects. In the years 2012 - 2014 she associated with the Dance Theater Zawirowania. She co-organized the 9th and the 10th edition of the International Festival of Dance Theaters Zawirowania. She was actively working behind the production of several performances, including Navigation Song BD303 (chor Irad Mazliah) and projects "K44" (chor. Karolina Kroczak), “Nie ogarniam ..." (chor. Elwira Piorun). She was cooworking with PERFORM Artistic Foundation on "inVISIBLE" project.

She is inspired by people and their passions, travel and personal development.

Graduated (MA) from the Dance Department from the University of Arts, Finland in 2000, before that she did masters of Physical Education from University of Jyväskylä. 2010 she start to do PHD studies in University of Arts in Helsinki, her research is about Somaesthetics of Contact Improvisation.

From 2000 onwards she has been a dance teacher, choreographer and lecturer for dance at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts. She has been teaching in several international dance and contact improvisation festivals. Mirva has been working with with many different dance companies and choreographers, here few of them: Dance company Karttunen Kollektiv (choreographer Jyrki Karttunen), New Circus Company Circo Aereo, choreographer Joona Halonen, Echo Echo dance company (Ireland), collaboration with Frey Faust and collaboration with Joerg Hassmann. At the moment she is working with Finnish choreographer Valtteri Raekallio.

In dance I am interested in the feeling of flow and soft movement. I love to investigate movement, its rhythm and different ways of inhabiting the body. A feeling of dancing is created by being able to switch the body from total relaxation to extreme intensity and tension. I call this the body’s ability to breathe and create movement. My ideal is total presence, which makes every moment true and meaningful.

Is an improvisational musician and mover based in Mallorca, Spain. Besides Contact Improvisation he has practiced Aikido, Body Weather, Butoh, Chi Kung, Yoga, Vipassana Meditation and Authentic Movement. Fascinated by silence and stillness – and how these states contain movement.

Jonathan Megaw trained and performed for many years across many theatrical disciplines from a young age. His first dance teacher during full time studies was Yat Malgram a former soloist with the German expressionist choreographer Kurt Joos and the deputy Principle of the Drama Centre London where Jonathan studied professional Acting. He also Studied Performing Arts at Middlesex University, Drama at Flinders University of South Australia, and Post Graduate studies at London Contemporary Dance School and Laban. He has worked as an Actor, Comic Entertainer, Trapeze Artist, Dancer, Choreographer and Live Art practitioner. He produced a number of multi screen Digital installations including Red, After Claude Cohune, LRRH, Ornithologies. He holds certificates in a number of somatic, and complimentary therapeutic practices.
Improvisation in any performative form has always been of interest to him and Contact Improvisation has formed the core of his practice and research for many years. He seeks to bring mindfulness of where we end and the other begins, inspired by his regular practice of Puja and training in Kundalini Tantra Yoga at Ashram Munivaran in Bali Indonesia, to his dancing and teaching.

Work in THEATRE & DANCE through ongoing research for 34 years. Teaching over 28 years, 4 years full-time at professional acting or dance schools in London and Paris, and over 140 intensive workshops brought him to Columbia, France, England, Italy, Germany, USA, India, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, and now Poland. With his international performances all around the world and by inviting artists from all over the world to his home-country Switzerland he continues realizing his dream of a world with less and less borders.

"CI is for me - in this moment of my life and dancing - more and more LESS AND LESS = more with less = listening listening listening instead of doing doing doing. (If I had only 1 word to describe that, I would name it UN-doing.)"

Watch him dance / improvise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ6QqFZui00 , http://www.keep-searching.ch/

Constantly between dance, performance and practice of various forms of physical activity, Angelika is a dynamically developing dance artist, actively working in different areas which include performance, regular dance practice, participation in dance and choreographic initiatives as well as project facilitation. She believes versatility broadens our self-consciousness, allowing us to open ourselves for the world around and to learn from one another. From a young age, she has been interested in the broadly understood physical activity, and this fascination with movement led her to the first dance class.

She graduated from Coventry University in Great Britain, obtaining first-class honours degree in Dance and Performance Making. During her studies, she received a scholarship, which enabled her to study at the University of Illinois in the USA and participate in a performance project at the Viljandi Culture Academy in Estonia. Her practice is rooted in improvisation, CI, contemporary dance and somatic practices. Angelika is constantly implementing her practice with practical and theoretical knowledge from other movement practices and expanding her knowledge of the art of dance and performance. She is following her versatile interests and actively seeking answers to constantly new questions.

She is certified Yoga teacher (Ashtanga / Dynamic Vinyasa) and is currently developing her teaching skills in practice. In her work, she encourages participants to look for precision and to focus on the details of alignment. She believes that listening to ones body and active cultivation of deeper awareness allows us to transfer mindfulness from the mat to everyday life.

Inspired to create opportunities for the development of art, believing in its causative power and out of the willingness to broaden its accessibility- she is currently studying Culture and Media Management (with major in Contemporary Culture) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

Caterina Mocciola (IT/AUS)

I’m an independent dancer and a maker. Originally Italian, for over a decade I lived in Australia; just recently I’ve moved to Berlin. My artistic practice has its foundation in Contact Improvisation and Improvisation, however my love for movement and dance has pushed me to explore other related disciplines that still hold a strong influence in my dancing and teaching: Feldenkreis, BMC, Physical Theatre, Contemporary, Release, Acrobatics, Aerial dance, Body Weather and Kung Fu. The key teachers that have informed my dance are Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Joerg Hassmann, Gustavo Lecce, Nita Little and Jess Curtis. Recently I have also assisted and interpreted Alito Alessi for his teacher training in Rome and Nita Little in Tuscany.

While in Sydney, I held a very active role in the community as a dancer, a teacher and organizer. I have initiated the Sydney Sunday Jam and the dance collective MomentumInSydney. I have regularly hosted the Underscore and the Global Underscore. I have also co-organized with Critical Path the Improvisational Practices Symposium.

I have taught in all of Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Argentina and Poland.

Born and raised in Lublin, Poland, Mochniej began his career as a street dancer. At a local 'culture house' he discovered contemporary dance and an enduring passion for movement was born. He worked as member of the Ballet Ensemble in the Lublin Musical Theatre while studying Cultural Animation at University Marie Curie-Sklodowskiej. He was an original member of Silesian Dance Theatre, the first professional contemporary dance company in Poland, where he danced from 1991-1994, and where he met Melissa Monteros. Together they launched W&M Physical Theatre in 1995 (as Dance Theatre of Gdansk). With Monteros, he was the founder of Dance Explosions, Poland, the International Improvisation Festival in Zielona Gora. He has been involved in the Zawirowanie Festival in Warsaw since its inception in 2005. He was a member of Theatre Junction's Resident Company of Artists from 2006-2007. Mochniej created work for the Polish version of "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2009. 

Has been enthusiastically dancing and performing Contact Improvisation since 1988. His focus lies in the exploration of CI principles. In his 20 years of regular teaching practice he has been playfully spreading the seeds of his continuous research.

Dancer, improviser and contact mover, choreographer, dance teacher and former founder and artistic director of Experimental Dance Studio EST in Kraków, Poland, 

She curates a cooperation with Barakah Theater creating there Obszar Tanca / Dance Expance/stage.
She teaches for Hurtownia Ruchu, Music Cracow Academy and Lodz.
She was teaching for 8 years in State Actors School in Cracow.
She has taught workshops in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and England, Moldavia

She has studied contemporary dance, bodywork based on Body Mind Centering- certificated Somatic Movement Educator, elements of Laban, Alexander, Feldenkrais techniques in New York at Movement Research, Jose Limon, Dance Space, and on the workshops in Poland. She took classes at George Mason University and University of Alabama and University of Calgary. 
For contact improvisation study she took part in festivals in Moscow, Finland, Israel, Germany, Moldavia. 
She danced with EST in Poland. Recently she performs as a solo dancer. 
She showed her work in Estonia, Moldavia, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Czech republic, USA. 
She performed also at Improvisation Festival at Judson Church, New York, at George Washington University, at Dartington College, England.
She danced for dance projects Aurora Project in St. Petersburg, Washington DC and Norway, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Poland and Dance Across Borders in Estonia and Sweden. 
Recently she cooperated and performed improvisations projects with Renata Piotrowska, Michael Schumacher, Pracownia Fizyczna, Natalia Iwaniec, Pawel Konior, EST

She choreographs also for drama theaters in Poland.

Her choreographies were awarded for developing own style and stage personality, received by International Festival of Contemporary Dance Forms in Kalisz.
She got an ArtsLink scholarship founded by Soros Foundation for six weeks residency in NY.

www.hurtowniaruchu.pl
www.bodylab.eu
www.teatrbarakah.com
www.taniecpolska.pl

I am dancing contact improvisation for around 5 years and it has been an unlimited source of experiences, learning and inspiration in my life. It led me to the studies of Dance and Somatics (Eastern Finland Sport Institute), teaching CI/movement improvisation and bodywork. Recently I am fascinated by "learning like kids". Learning by doing,  moving, experimenting, starting over and playing, and not being "very serious about it". Often I find myself with my breath, or heartbeat, or my center or simply weight. It seems like I am drawn to smallest details and sensations in my body. Sometimes it makes me smile. And sometimes not.

Graduated in visual art and photography at the Fine Arts University of Wroclaw, Poland in 2010 and in 2012 she completed PEPCC – Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme in Forum Dança, Lisbon. For many years, in parallel develops her interest in the field of visual arts, dance and curatorial work. Since her first contact with dance in 1995, she performed in Austria,Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

Jacek Owczarek is a choreographer, dancer and teacher of dance, improvisation and contact improvisation. Since 1996 he has taught dance and contact improvisation at workshops nationwide, internationally and at instructor courses as well as in PPSKAK in Kalisz. In years 1994-2003 he danced in several productions for Witold Jurewicz’s Dance Theatre ALTER. He has participated in international projects, worked with Bretoncaffe Theatre in Warsaw, and on the films of Michal Tywoniuk and Daria Kopiec. He created stage movement and performed in theater productions for such theaters as the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw, the Old Theatre in Krakow, and the New Theatre in Lodz. Since 2007 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Lodz. In 2007 he was founder of ”Physical Laboratory” group. He is President of the Association MOVIN 'BOAT and Vice President of the Foundation Cinema of Dance.

She is a performer, dancer, teacher, and manager of cultural projects in the field of dance - a sociologist by education, a researcher of contemporary culture. A traveler.
She was dveling into the art of dance (mainly contemporary, new dance and contact improvisation) and various methods of body and spiritual development (yoga, kalaripayattu) during numerous trips around Europe, Asia and Australia.
She participated in international dance projects / performance. She is particularly interested in the site specific performance art. Since 2011, she has been working with the Danish choreographer Pipaluk Supernova.

Freelance:

• Fundacja Artystyczna Perform

Poland Contact Improvisation Festival – Warsaw Flow, www.polnadcontactfestival.com, 2011, 2012

Członek zespołu organizacyjnego/ PR/organizator,

Dance Inter-Space/ Europejski Stadion Kultury Rzeszów/

Koordynatorka/Choreografka/ Tancerka

100Dancers (we współpracy z Copenhagen DreamHouse)

Koordynatorka/Choreografka/ Tancerka

• Fundacja Ciało/Umysł www.cialoumysl.pl/  /2009-2012

Project Manager/ Manager Projektów (organizacja i produkcja wydarzeń):

- ciało/umysł - Międzynarodowy Festiwal Tańca Współczesnego /2009/2010/2011,

- Warszawska Scena Tańca 2011, 2012,

- I Kongres Tańca 2011,

- Go!Go!Dance!!- 8godzinny maraton tańca- 17 projektów/2010;

• Fundacja Muzyka Jest dla Wszystkich

Strawinski Hip Hop- koordynacja i prowadzenie warsztatów dla młodzieży, aktywizacja i włączenie uczestników do spektaklu „Historia Żołnierza”

Chopin Open Festival + Akcja Labirynt, http://www.akcjalabirynt.pl/, 2010/2011/2012

Prowadzenie warsztatów z dziedziny performance dla dzieci.

Wybrane projekty 2012-2011: taniec/ performance:

• TOPOLOGIE -Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan)/tancerka 2012
• Bottle of Copenhegen –(with Pipaluk Supernova), choreografka i tancerka -site specific Kopenhaga/2012

• The Woman- choreografia Paulina Święcańska, tancerka
• Wili Dorner „Bodies in Urban Spaces”-  tancerka  Lublin 2012/ czerwiec
• S(peach)less- Pianowska/Zakrocki/Zemler/Ebert - koncept i choreografia /Pianowska/ premiera lipiec 2012
• Dialog z Adasinkiym, tancerka/ performance po masterclass z Antonem Adasinkiym/ Derevo/ IMKA 2012
• Passing Thorough- tancerka/ project site specific prowadzony przez Małgorzatę Haduch oraz Rachel Ogle oparty o technikę pracy Davida Zambrano, Re:wizje 2011;
• 100dancers Kopenhaga (http://www.liveartinstallations.com/100dancers/) 2011/ instalacja live art, site specific;
• Oblepmy Warszawę od 2011 (www.oblepmywarszawe.blogspot.com), autorski projekt site specific
• Persona - film (duet: Małgorzata Pianowska i Paulina Święcańska, realizacja filmu: Jakub Kasznia) 2011,

Choreographer, director, contemporary dance teacher, dancer and performer, as well the founder and president of the eferte_Dance Development Foundation (www.eferte.pl) in Warsaw, producer. She was the founder and  artistic director of "mufmi" dance theatre in Warsaw (1995). Nowadays Piotrowska is the artistic head of ROZBARK Dance Company in ROZBARK Theatre in Bytom. Teacher of PWST - State Theatre School in Krakow at the Dance Department. Teacher of contemporary dance, improvisation, dance composition, forms and structures of dance theatre. She leads her own education program "process and creation of a character in dance theatre" and lately she is building the method which called “dualism of onebodyspace recognizer”.

She received diploma of professional dancer, granted by Polish Actors Association and the master’s degree in management in 2002. Twice was awarded in Budapest at the SzólóDuó International Dance Festival (2005/2006). She has worked with several companies and theaters, as the Silesian Dance Theater, Polish Dance Theater and Hungarian Art of Movement Company, Samovar Theater.

She has made over 100 works since 1995. She created the performance for Wroclaw Pantomime Theatre of Henryk Tomaszewski “The History of Ugliness” (2014). In 2015 she was honored for her 20 years of artistic activity by Polish Actors Association (ZASP). Piotrowska was participating in the international art projects: “Advancing Performing Arts Project VI” (2008), “DANCING BRIDGE” (Norway, 2010), “DANCEME” (Milano, 2011) and “RECORDING FIELDS” (tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf, 2014). In September 2015 she twice received main awards at two monodram’s theatre festivals: Grand Prix in Warsaw and Audience Prize in Koszalin with her performance dedicated to the great Artist - Tadeusz Kantor.

She received the Gold Mask 2016, the theatre prize for the whole artistic activity in ROZBARK Theatre in season 2015, when she created such performances as: “democratic body”, “toniejestpostawartystyczna, czyli premiery nie będzie!”, “czytANKI perFORMAtywne”, “neverland finding”, “lost in the skin” and “umarłam w krasie, czyli przypuszczalnie żyłam”. In the new repertoire one can find the new productions as: “OR ID”, “KURU”, “Underground’s suns” & “Fast Food Foot” and smaller performances: “pastmefuture”,  “under the dead tree” “+ - - +”, “bless the king…”.  In 2017 Piotrowska was among others the jury member of Solo Dance Contest in Gdańsk (2017), she coached also two artistic residencies in Gdańsk Dance Festival and was leading workshops for National Theatre in Miscolc in Hungary.

In her artistic thinking, she is interested in improvisation and body & mind awareness as a tool of mutual observation, she researches the relation of the objective body in onebody space. Piotrowska is interested in process work discovering among others the tools of creating dramatic texts, creating the characters in dance theatre and work with states of mind and emotions and imagination.

http://annapiotrowska.com

https://vimeo.com/user6161350

Magdalena Radlowska is a dancer, choreographer, improviser and teacher. Born in Poland in 1981, she now lives and works between London and Poland. Magdalena graduated from Poznan Contemporary School in 2004 with a BA Graduate Diploma in Dance Practice, and in 2006 graduated from Zielona Gora University with a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Dance. In the summer of 2009 Magdalena completed an MA Choreography at Middlesex University, London, and a one-year professional diploma course at The London Contemporary Dance School at The Place.

Magdalena has been performing and choreographing for many years, presenting her work at international dance festivals across Europe and receiving several awards for her choreographies. She has taught contemporary dance in a variety of contexts all over Europe, most recently establishing a multigenerational community theatre dance company in Poland called Dafka Energii. The company received funding on two occasions to create large-scale pieces over a number of months, toured to London (with a second tour planned in 2011), and attracted substantial interest from the national media. Magdalena is also a founding member of two contemporary dance companies formed with fellow alumni from The London Contemporary Dance School; Anima Dance Company and LML Theatre Dance Company. Anima have performed in several festivals and LML were awarded a residency at Trois CL in Luxembourg in August 2010. The piece they created at this residency was selected for Resolution! at The Place in January 2011.

One of the leading CI-teacher in Switzerland and travelling all over Europe to teach and perform Contact and Free Improvisation. He is deeply involved in CI since 1992 and in the meantime he is dedicating the biggest part of his life to this wonderful dance form.

After his studies of New Dance at “bewegungs-art” in Freiburg/Germany he continued his education with many different teachers, among them Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith who have started to develop CI in the early seventies with a group of other movers. Besides this his teaching is also influenced by his studies of different kinds of martial arts and Craniosacral Bodywork.

He offers his work as a free lancer to a wide range of people and also gets regularly invited to teach in schools. In his teaching he focuses on the technical aspects of CI (ease, precision and strength) as well as on matters of perception (body-sensation, connection of inner and outer space, of bottom and top, centre-periphery) and on a creativity coming from a distinct body-awareness. For him the pleasure to play, deep engagement in the dance, and respect for others are the basis for gaining the most possible in dancing CI.

As a performer he works with many different international artists and his performances are primarily based on Free Improvisation incorporating Contact Improvisation, dance, dance-theatre, voice and live music. In 2007 he initiated “Moving Men”, a men’s trio with Charlie Morrissey and Jacky Miredin touring with there performance-work all over Europe.

As an organizer of CI-events he is involved in many festivals, jams and teachers-meetings, among them the “Moscow Contact and Performance Festival” and the “International Berner Jam”.

For more information go to www.adrianrussi.com

Teacher, mover, performer. Currently associated with the "Two Paths" Studio in the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, she is in the draft of Body Constitution project, devoted to the techniques of martial arts as a source in the physical training of the performer / actor. Scholarship of Alternative Dance Academy in Poznan. A graduate Academy of New Dance and Improvisation and of instructor programs in the field of therapy, dance and movement. Constantly practicing and perfecting her technique at home and abroad. Member of ECITE .Co-founder of the festival Circulation - Living Culture Movement www.cyrkulacje - kulturyruchu.org.pl

BODY NARRATION

What is the deeper connection between movement and gesture?

Between physical activity and action?

How we can move from the movement to a tales plaiting with our body?

Lab is an attempt to visualize the invisible .  An attempt to dismantle the familiar. By delving deep into the intention of the movement, we will seek new ways of perception and communication in

co - EXISTENCE .

Richard and Malaika Sarco-Thomas have been passionately involved in contact improvisation since 2003. From 2006-2010 the pair organised the weekly Contact Jam at Dartington started by CI founder Steve Paxton in the 1980s. Richard’s background in Ki Aikido and shiatsu and Malaika’s research into contemporary dance improvisation performance inform their approaches to CI. Together they organise the weekly contact jam at University College Falmouth, and the annual international Contact Festival Dartington.

Nomad artist, holds a degree in Fine Arts from Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France. She has been involved in the practice, performance and teaching of CI since 1998. As a visual artist, she is interested in the body, space and movement in the present moment as Materia for research, expression and creation. Her works cross multiple medias-video, objects, installation-and this multi-disciplinary approach is present in all her practices.

He was born in Eastern Ukraine, started a DJ career in 2008 organizing reggae parties in Kyiv which later transformed into ragga-jungle and break-core. In 2012 one friend gave him a record player, another - the first vinyl record and that's how his adventure with vinyl and friendship with jazz has started. Nikolay continues experimenting with sound and mixing drum-n-bass, psy-trance, dub, ethnic motifs, ambient, jazz and rock-n-roll in his sets. Known for his eclectic and rich musical taste, he fills every set with huge variety of dynamic rhythm and improvises with different genres, styles, sounds, emotions.

Choreographer, dancer and vice-president of ADDM.(Moldova) (Association for Contemporary Dance Development in Moldova). She is a choreographer and dancer in Performance Dance group “Voices” and artistic) director of the children dance school “Fantasy”. She dances, improvises, teaches, makes choreography, takes part in international projects and performances (as dancer and as choreographer) and travels. She works with professional dancers, actors, students, amateur, with children and adults, works in cooperation with musicians and video makers. She is organizer of international festivals of modern dance in Moldova. Alexandra has organized festivals since 2000 (10 festivals by now), with support from the Soros Foundation, ECF, Pro Helvetia, Swedish Institute, German Embassy, Alliance Francais and other funding bodies.

First trained as an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study and perform modern and postmodern dance in the early 1970s, greatly influenced by the Judson Dance Theater breakthroughs of the 1960s in New York City. Nancy danced in the first performances of contact improvisation in 1972 with Steve Paxton and others, and since then has been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer/publisher, and organizer. She travels extensively throughout the world teaching and performing contact and other improvised dance work with favorite dance partners and performance makers including Ray Chung, Julyen Hamilton, Andrew Harwood, Peter Bingham, Karen Nelson, and musician Mike Vargas.  She co-founded Contact Quarterly, an international dance journal, in 1975, which she continues to coedit, produce, and publish along with other dance literature. Nancy’s work and writings are featured in the books, Taken By Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader and Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion, and in the film The Poetics of Touch. Her first book, Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas, came out in 2008. She lives in western Massachusetts.  www.nancystarksmith.com

CONTACT AND THE UNDERSCORE: Embodiment and Collaboration A workshop designed to refresh and refine our study and practice of Contact and Improvisation through working with the elements of the Underscore, a long score for jamming/contact/improvisation/composition that Nancy has been developing since 1990. (See full description of Underscore below.)

Alone, in contact, in groups, in silence and with live music—we’ll study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship. Our practice will focus on physical training in CI, detailed listening practice, discussion, and various improvisational structures.

On Saturday and Sunday we will join with other dancers in the festival for the Underscore talk-through and Global Underscore practice—a perfect opportunity to integrate and apply discoveries from our workshop.

Nancy’s longtime collaborator, composer/improviser Mike Vargas will contribute his music and his point of view, informed by 30+ years working with dance of all kinds, the last 13 years with Nancy and CI.

[For movers with intermediate and advanced level experience with contact improvisation.]

THE (GLOBAL!) UNDERSCORE: a talk and a practice

(For Nancy and Mike’s workshop participants and other intermediate/advanced level CI dancers who come to the Underscore talk, space permitting.)

The Underscore is a long contact/improvisation/jamming/composition score that Nancy has been developing since the early 1990s as a framework for dance improvisation research.  It guides dancers through a series of “changing states”—from solo relaxation and sensitizing to gravity and support, through warm up, group circulation and interaction, contact improvisation (CI) engagements, opening out into full group improvisation, and back to rest and reflection.

The Underscore is a vehicle for integrating CI into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice, for developing greater freedom moving in spherical space, and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising.

The four hours will include periods of small, quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing. The 20+ phases of the score—each with a name and a graphic symbol—create a general map for the dancers. Within that frame, they are free to create their own movements, dynamics, and relationships—with themselves, each other, the group, the music, and the environment. The Underscore talk on Saturday evening (required for participation in the practice on Sunday) will provide some background and outline the structure in detail, to be followed the next day by the physical practice itself, which will include periods of silence and periods of live music improvised/composed by Nancy’s longtime collaborator, musician Mike Vargas. For the past 13 years, a Global Underscore has been occurring near the summer solstice. Conceived by French dancer Claire Filmon, the Global Underscore Solstice is an annual event during which dancers at many sites around the world practice the Underscore simultaneously. The Warsaw Flow Festival Underscore will be one of the sites in the 2014 Global Underscore (coordinated by UnderscoreNYC,globalunderscore.blogspot.com).

Previous experience with contact improvisation and attendance at the Underscore talk-through are required for participation in the Underscore practice.

Researcher of cultural events, choreographer, performer, coach and manager. Educated at the universities in Zielona Gora, Lodz and Warsaw. She gained professional experience in coaching programs in most European countries as well as Israel, Brazil, India, Turkey, Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the USA.

As a leader and manager of culture, co-organized the Warsaw Festival of Independent Art Re:wizje.

Currently, she organizes tha International Festival of Contact Improvisation "Warsaw Flow":www.polandcontactfestival.com

Hans van der Vlis teaches Contact Improvisation and acrobatics and loves to combine those qualities. Hans is a physical intuitive and coach. When he coaching teams, organizations or couples he actually using the same kind of physical skills: listening and looking for contact in various ways. For him the physicality is a very rich source of inspiration and he love to teach and research it.
 Besides elements of dance and acrobatics he use also elements of massage, bodywork, meditation, dialogue and silence.

Began playing music in 1959. His curiosity and love of collaboration have led him through many contexts and cultures, from cocktail lounges in Indonesia to New York’s Lower East Side, from cancer wards to the Kennedy Center. He started specializing in music for dance in 1978. He works as a freelance composer across the USA and internationally performing, teaching, recording, and improvising. For the past 14 years, he has been working around the world with Nancy Stark Smith. He has released 9 CDs of his music and is currently on the faculty in the dance department at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

CONTACT AND THE UNDERSCORE: Embodiment and Collaboration A workshop designed to refresh and refine our study and practice of Contact and Improvisation through working with the elements of the Underscore, a long score for jamming/contact/improvisation/composition that Nancy has been developing since 1990. (See full description of Underscore below.)

Alone, in contact, in groups, in silence and with live music—we’ll study physical and energetic changes of state, natural composition, presence, and relationship. Our practice will focus on physical training in CI, detailed listening practice, discussion, and various improvisational structures.

On Saturday and Sunday we will join with other dancers in the festival for the Underscore talk-through and Global Underscore practice—a perfect opportunity to integrate and apply discoveries from our workshop.

Nancy’s longtime collaborator, composer/improviser Mike Vargas will contribute his music and his point of view, informed by 30+ years working with dance of all kinds, the last 13 years with Nancy and CI.

[For movers with intermediate and advanced level experience with contact improvisation.]

THE (GLOBAL!) UNDERSCORE: a talk and a practice

(For Nancy and Mike’s workshop participants and other intermediate/advanced level CI dancers who come to the Underscore talk, space permitting.)

The Underscore is a long contact/improvisation/jamming/composition score that Nancy has been developing since the early 1990s as a framework for dance improvisation research.  It guides dancers through a series of “changing states”—from solo relaxation and sensitizing to gravity and support, through warm up, group circulation and interaction, contact improvisation (CI) engagements, opening out into full group improvisation, and back to rest and reflection.

The Underscore is a vehicle for integrating CI into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice, for developing greater freedom moving in spherical space, and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising.

The four hours will include periods of small, quiet internal activity and other times of higher energy and interactive dancing. The 20+ phases of the score—each with a name and a graphic symbol—create a general map for the dancers. Within that frame, they are free to create their own movements, dynamics, and relationships—with themselves, each other, the group, the music, and the environment.The Underscore talk on Saturday evening (required for participation in the practice on Sunday) will provide some background and outline the structure in detail, to be followed the next day by the physical practice itself, which will include periods of silence and periods of live music improvised/composed by Nancy’s longtime collaborator, musician Mike Vargas. For the past 13 years, a Global Underscore has been occurring near the summer solstice. Conceived by French dancer Claire Filmon, the Global Underscore Solstice is an annual event during which dancers at many sites around the world practice the Underscore simultaneously. The Warsaw Flow Festival Underscore will be one of the sites in the 2014 Global Underscore (coordinated by UnderscoreNYC,globalunderscore.blogspot.com).

Previous experience with contact improvisation and attendance at the Underscore talk-through are required for participation in the Underscore practice.

At the age of 14 I first started teaching, gymnastics, later followed by horse riding and snowboarding. I studied liberal arts & sciences with a focus on cultural anthropology & conflict studies. This increased my interest & possibilities to travel the world - which I did as much as possible for the last 12 years. I came in contact with shamans and alternative healers & teachers, changing the course of my life from being merely focused on enjoying myself to a desire to develop healing skills & give something back to the world and the beautiful people in it.

Website: http://www.thismodernnomad.com/nomad_about_inge Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EIP1lcab3U

In 1981 Scott Wells discovered the pleasure of contact improvisation shortly after becoming obsessed with the struggles of modern dance. He stuck with both and currently directs a company in San Francisco and tours annually to Europe. Wells has created works for skateboarders, for boxers and choreographed West Side Story for Sonoma State University. In 2010 and 2005 Scott received the Izzie (San Francisco’s most prestigious dance award) for Best Choreography and was selected by Dance Magazine as “one of the 25 To Watch”. Scott Wells & Dancers are Artists in Residence (2012-2015) at ODC Theater. Wells has been practicing Alexander Technique for twenty years and BMC for ten. He recently completed his certification in Radical Counseling.

Contact dancer, improviser, physical actor, all-the-time mover, director and teacher.  Cofounder of the physical theatre/dance company The line of Night. Member of an international theatre research group The bridge of Winds lead by Odin Teatret. In the past occupied with traditional martial arts (Aikido, Wing Tsun) and modern fight systems (Krav Maga, Brasilian Jujitsu). For years now occupied with dance and physical movement. Performs and teaches internationally both for dance and physical acting. After years of training, still surprised by the endless possibilities in movement and expression.

LEADING

In contact improvisation we tend to look for the perfect solution where nobody leads and everybody follows. If the weight is mobilized and point of contact is the primary focus, this is surely possible and beautiful. Yet, after extensive practice this may lead to closing up opportunities, simply because my body tends to dance my body movements. From thousands of solutions possible I may still choose only my favorite, like eating always chocolate ice-cream while all flavors are on sale. It is not too bad – I do like chocolate ice-cream. For this lab, I want to offer you an opportunity to let your partner choose ice-cream for you.

Dancer, independent artist, performer, contact improvisation and body expression teacher, organiser of jams and diferent spaces to improvise in Madrid and all around Spain. Studied contemporary dance, improvisation, theatre, kick and thai-boxing, hatha yoga and CI in Poland and Spain, with several independent teachers.

Fascinated by movement and dance (particularly: contact, improvisation and body expression) as a useful tool to achieve personal growth (certificated in “Personal Growth through Movement and Dance” in InCorpore School in Madrid.

Her work is inspired by contemporary dance, CI, authentic movement, butoh, meditation, video arts, performance, music, nature and experience. 

She works with diferents artist and companies in Spain.