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KATHERINE FERRIER is a dance artist/educator, writer, and visual artist, who has been improvising and making dances since the late '80s. A cofounder of The Architects —an improvisational quartet spanning nearly twenty years—she is also the founder and artistic director of Immediate Theatre, an ensemble of movers, musicians, video and visual artists, and lighting and set designers collaborating to create spontaneous dance theater works. Katherine delights in composing in the moment—be it with fabric, found objects, words, or bodies in motion. www.katherineferrier.net BRANDON GONZALES is an interdisciplinary artist and Contact Improvisation teacher in Austin, Texas. He explores the integration of meditation, somatic movement, and visual art through a variety of media, including painting, photography, and film (see his dance short Not Until Now on YouTube). He co-teaches CI at Texas State University, organizes CI workshops, and cofounded the ongoing weekly Giddy-Up! CI Class + Lab in Austin. JULYEN HAMILTON is a dancer, director, poet, and teacher. Originally from England, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since the 1970s, composing instantly and working with movement and text, sometimes in collaboration with live musicians or a lighting designer. He teaches and performs throughout the world and lives in Catalonia, Spain, with his family. www.julyenhamilton.com PAULA JOSA-JONES is a choreographer, director, and equestrian, who has developed a unique form of visually charged dance theater built on the sensuous experience of the body as landscape and source for movement, image, and voice. After fifteen years of creating theatrical works for humans, in 1997, Paula returned to riding and her childhood love of horses and created an interspecies company with horses, dancers, and riders. She has devoted herself to the study of dressage and horse training and care, including the Feldenkrais-based Tellington TTouch and Clicker Training. In 2001, she premiered RIDE, a groundbreaking work of equestrian dance theater, which continues to develop in live performance and film. Paula is the founder of Embodied Horsemanship®, an embodied and intuitive approach to the human-horse connection with movement, improvisation, and touch. She also competes and performs with her Andalusians. She is writing a book on her work with horses due for publication in 2011. www.paulajosajones.org DANIEL LEPKOFF is a dancer, performer, and teacher known for bringing the process of living movement into the studio and onto the stage. He sees dancing as the imagination acting through the body. During the early 1970s and into the mid-1980s, he played a central role in the development of both Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton. Over the course of more than three decades, he has looked closely at the interweaving of sensation, perception, and action arising in the body's ever-present interactions with its environment and has developed dance techniques for bringing this material to the stage. www.daniellepkoff.com CHARLIE MORRISSEY is a performer, teacher, director, and researcher. He has been working in the UK and in many other countries for 20 years. He creates large- and small-scale site-specific and theater- and gallery-based performance work in diverse contexts, working with both set and improvised materials. www.charliemorrissey.com JILL SIGMAN is a choreographer, improviser, and multimedia artist, with past lives in classical ballet and academic philosophy. She is currently building huts out of found and repurposed materials. See www.thinkdance.org and http://thinkdance.wordpress.com. CAROLINE WATERS organizes international improvisation events, including ECITE and the Moscow CI Festival. She has performed at many international improvisation festivals across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Chichester University after teaching for 15 years at Dartington College of Arts. Mainly drawing from Contact Improvisation and New Dance practices, she teaches, performs, and directs in situations—often site based—ranging from performance to the everyday. Caroline continues to develop her own body of work internationally as a freelance improviser—in performance and as a dancer, teacher, and musician. ADDITIONAL ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS: |
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[cover photo] REPLICA. Choreography and performance by
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[cover photo] Megan Boyd
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MARLON BARRIOS SOLANO, creator and producer of dance-tech.net, is a Venezuelan, NYC-based, online experimental producer, researcher, and lecturer with a hybrid background in dance, interactive technologies, and cognitive science. dance-tech.net JONAH BOKAER is an award-winning choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding the potential of live performance onstage, online, and in virtual environments through the use of digital media, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and social enterprise, in the US and internationally. Current collaborators include Daniel Arsham, Aaron Copp, Anne Carson, Christian Marclay, Isaac Mizrahi, SNARKITECTURE, and Robert Wilson. www.jonahbokaer.net SCOTT DELAHUNTA works from his base in Amsterdam/Berlin as a researcher, writer, consultant, and organizer on a range of international projects, bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. www.sdela.dds.nl. WILLIAM FORSYTHE is a choreographer whose work is acknowledged for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st-century art form. Forsythe's deep interest in the fundamental principles of organization has led him to produce a wide range of projects, including installations, films, and web-based knowledge creation. www.theforsythecompany.com HÉLÈNE LESTERLIN works at the junction of contemporary dance, theater, visual art, and sound. She misses dancing in ESL (Emergent Scores Lab), an improvisation practice she founded with Margit Galanter and Jack Magai. She is currently making Darkling, raising her daughter Sophie, and curating for EMPAC at Rensselear Polytechnical Institute in Troy, NY. She holds a BA in art from Yale College and an MFA in dance from Bennington College. www.atlasdance.org DAWN STOPPIELLO is a choreographer, dancer, and media artist who has dedicated her career to computer-mediated live performance. She is cofounder and artistic co-director of Troika Ranch, a dance/theater/media ensemble now operated from a troika of cities: Portland, OR; Berlin, Germany; and New York, NY. Dawn's leg of the Troika tripod stands in Portland, where she also rides a bike, gardens, drinks perfect beer, and speculates on grand schemes. www.troikaranch.org. NANCY WOZNY is a contributing editor at Dance Magazine, Houston, and Dance Source Houston. She contributes to Culturemap, Pointe, Dance Teacher, and other publications. She was a 2005 NEA Fellow at the Institute for Dance Criticism and a 2003 winner of the Gary Parks Award for Emerging Dance Critics from the Dance Critics Association. www.dancehunter.blogspot.com ADDITIONAL ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS: |
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2 CQ Messages 12 CONVERSATION WITH JULYEN HAMILTON 20 SEEING BEYOND SIGHT/ 25 MEMORIES IN MOTION 33 DISTILLATION 37 ESSENTIALS: basic Contact Improv. principles & practices
38 STILL MOVING Contact Improv. shoptalk & dialogue 46 CI Newsletter Contact Improvisation news & notices
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FRONT COVER: [Left to right] Lea Kiefer and Sebas van Wetten at the Contactfestival Frieberg in Freiburg,
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ANTONIA CRAIGE graduated from Wesleyan University in May 2009. Twenty-two years old, she has been teaching yoga and making dances for three years. TONY DEIFELL is a visual artist and social entrepreneur in San Francisco. He has spent over a decade creating youth-generated media projects, including From the Hip, Youth Voice Radio, and ISM—a diversity project using video diaries to address race issues, which was recognized by the White House as a national model of diversity education. He serves as chief strategist for KaBOOM!, is on the board of directors of Active Voice, advises film and television projects, and develops participatory media-making productions, such as wdydwyd? (why do you do what you do?). He taught photography at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, NC, from 1992 to 1997. www.seeingbeyondsight.org HANNAH FOX is a professor of dance and theater at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. She is artistic director of Big Apple Playback Theatre and conducts dance theater workshops internationally. Hannah was the founder and director of the 92 St. Y Young Women's Youth Theatre and is the editor of Akimbo: Scenes and Monologues by the Young Women's Theatre Collective. www.bigappleplayback.com JULYEN HAMILTON is a dancer, director, poet, and teacher. Originally from England, he has been an exponent of innovative performance since the 1970s, composing instantly and working with movement and text, sometimes in collaboration with live musicians or a lighting designer. He teaches and performs throughout the world and lives in Catalonia, Spain with his family. www.julyenhamilton.com DIETER HEITKAMP, ECKHARD MÜLLER, NORBERT PAPE, and NANCY STARK SMITH are long-term contact improvisation dancers, performers, teachers, and organizers, who are committed to the present and future well-being of that work. SHIRA LYNN was at one time highly educated and working a respectable job in the city. Now, one can only imagine what she is doing at any given moment, foraging for sustenance in the hills of western Massachusetts. NINA MARTIN, REBECCA BRYANT, and MARGARET PAEK are Lower Left Performance Collective artists. They collaborate on performance projects and teaching residencies, such as March 2 Marfa and Dance Ranch Marfa. Nina is on faculty at Texas Christian University, Rebecca is on faculty at Purdue University, and Margaret teaches and performs in NYC while also seeking an MFA at Hollins University/ADF. www.lowerleft.org STEVE PAXTON is an inveterate contactor who is interested in improvisation. STEPHANIE SKURA, "a major American experimentalist" (Dance Ink) and Bessie Award winner, has taught and performed for twenty-five years throughout the U.S. and in fourteen countries. She continues to experiment with movement as an activator of meaning and form, investigating boundaries and intersections of dance, theater, poetry, and performance. She is based in Auburn, WA. DEY SUMMER lives in Boston, MA, where she spends a lot of time doing things she loves, including being a bodyworker, playing flute, dancing, and creating more opportunities to dance. NINA WISE is a performance artist, writer, and founder of the Motion Theater technique. She is known for her provocative and original performance works, which have been produced in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Nina is the author of Big New Free Happy Unusual Life, and her many articles and stories have been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies. She currently teaches at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in CA. www.ninawise.com, www.motioninstitute.com. ADDITIONAL ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS: |