Joan Arnold has been a movement educator for over 30 years, teaching dance, exercise, Anusara yoga and the Alexander Technique. Formerly Director of Special Programs at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, she has performed with Johanna Boyce, Mark DeGarmo and Christopher Williams. In June 2011, she choreographed a community dance as part of the international Global Water Dance project. Certified to teach the Art of Breathing, she has a private practice in NYC and has written on mind/body subjects for national magazines. She owns and directs the Ancram Opera House in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she teaches and, with her husband Jim Paul, programs seasonal events and workshops. www.joanarnold.com

Rachel Bernsen is an independent dance artist, dance educator and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. She maintains an active private practice in New Haven, CT and is on faculty at New Haven's Educational Center for the Arts. She has also taught at Yale and Wesleyan Universities and at the Tsekh Dance Center in Moscow, Russia. Rachel's choreographic work has been shown regionally and internationally. Currently she is a member of the interdisciplinary dance/music ensemble Quartet Collective with Melanie Maar, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Abraham Gomez-Delgado and performs with composer Anthony Braxton. Rachel is the founder of the performance space The BIG ROOM in New Haven and curator of its interdisciplinary performance series, Take Your Time. www.rachelbernsen.com

Michelle Boulé is a dance artist, teacher, and BodyTalk Practitioner who has been performing and teaching internationally for the past 14 years. Currently dances with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (since 2001) and John Scott. Previously danced with Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, David Wampach, Donna Uchizono, Christine Elmo, Neal Beasley, Beth Gill, among others. Her choreography has been shown at Issue Project Room, MR Festival at Judson Church, CPR, The Kitchen, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, and Catch. 2010 “Bessie” recipient for her performance and collaboration in MGPP’s Last Meadow. 2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. DanceWEB recipient 2002. michelleboule.wordpress.com

Rebecca Brooks is a dance artist and AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. She is on faculty at Balance Arts Center, Movement Research, and St. Margaret's House, and maintains a private practice in Brooklyn. She has taught workshops at CLASSCLASSCLASS, the Fieldston School, and the American Dance Festival. Recent performance work includes projects with Marina Abramović, luciana achugar, Maria Hassabi, Heather Kravas, Amanda Loulaki, Katy Pyle, robbinschilds and Kathy Westwater. Rebecca’s own work has been presented throughout NYC. BA, Sarah Lawrence College; Co-founder, AUNTS; Co-curator, Movement Research Festival Spring 2007: Reverence (Irreverence); Artistic Director, Rockbridge Artist Exchange.  www.rebeccakelleybrooks.com

Asli Bulbul is from Istanbul, Turkey and has been living in NYC since 1997. After an apprenticeship with Tanztheater Wuppertal/Pina Bausch in 2000, she joined Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. in 2001. From 2001-10, she took part in creating eight original productions and danced in numerous repertory pieces and performed these works internationally. Since leaving this full time position, she has performed with Martha Clarke, Jennifer Nugent, Rebecca Lazier's Terrain, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas & Co. and collaborated with Nu Dance Theater on a site specific project, Dorian C, which is being adapted to a short film. She is currently working with Daniel Clifton on some new ideas. 

Raquel Cavalcanti is a native Brazilian dance artist and a certified Alexander Technique teacher. Her work has been presented in the US, Brazil, Portugal, Germany, and France. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique in group settings in US and Brazil since 1999. Raquel has a Masters degree in Dance Education from New York University and has presented at Harvard, NYU, and at the National Dance Education Organization Conference. Her Masters' thesis is about the impact of the Alexander Technique in the teaching of dance. 

Alice Chauchat, born 1977 in Saint-Étienne (FR), lives and works in Berlin and Paris as choreographer, performer, and teacher/lecturer. Studied in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (Lyon) and at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels). She works most in collaborative set-ups, developing numerous choreographic projects and platforms for knowledge production and exchange in the performing arts (everybodystoolbox.net, pa-f.net, specialissue.eu etc.). 2010-2012 she was part of the artistic co-direction for Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research in the Parisian suburbs.

Elizabeth Corbett danced with the Joffrey Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet before she moved to Europe. There, she became a soloist with William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet and danced for over a decade in works including Love Songs, Artifact, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Enemy in the Figure, Steptext, Behind the China Dogs and other Forsythe works. Ms. Corbett now teaches ballet, improvisation technologies, and Forsythe repertory internationally. She was Dance Coordinator for Anne Teresa DeKeersmaeker's school of contemporary dance, P.A.R.T.S, in Brussels from 1999–2005 and danced with Ms. DeKeersmaeker in a Rosas/Impulstanz production called With/For/By. She was choreographic assistant to William Forsythe, Ms. DeKeersmaeker, and for Robert Wilson in productions for the Paris Opera and Rosas. She has taught classes and workshops for dance companies, festivals, and schools around the world including P.A.R.T.S./Rosas, Impulstanz Vienna, Cullberg Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Panetta Movement Center, Dance Ireland, Dance Platform Istanbul 2010, Ekoda de Dance Tokyo 2010, and she has been an American Dance Festival faculty member since 2006.

Kyle deCamp is a “Bessie” Award winning artist whose cross-media performance work is an ongoing investigation of the intersections of art, history, and individual lives from multiple perspectives. Her solo and ensemble work has been supported via: NYFA Choreography Fellowship; Commissions from NYSCA, Franklin Furnace, Jerome and Greenwall Foundations; Residencies at EMPAC, Movement Research, Yaddo, LMCC, HERE. She has performed with many innovative artists including: Richard Foreman, John Kelly, DANCENOISE, Martha Clarke, John Jesurun, Builders Association, Chris Kondek. Teaching: P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, dance and theater departments Sarah Lawrence, Princeton, Barnard/Columbia. She serves on the Movement Research Artist Advisory Council.

Lindsey Dietz Marchant is a NYC-based dance artist committed to the process of collaboration and the integration of improvisational forms and directed movement. Recent collaborations with partner Jason Dietz Marchant have been presented by Dance New Amsterdam, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Dixon Place, DanceNOW [NYC], Harkness Dance Center and La MaMa E.T.C., among many others. Her work has been presented across the country and internationally including upcoming commissions and residencies in Russia and Australia. Over the past decade Lindsey has danced for over 35 companies and finds inspiration in the many artists she’s encountered while freelancing. Lindsey teaches regularly at DNA, 100 Grand, and at universities and festivals around the world. www.dietzmarchant.com

Milka Djordjevich is a dance artist whose choreography has been shown at several New York City venues, including Danspace Project, the Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Her work has been shown internationally in Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Serbia and the UK. She has performed for Heather Kravas, Jennifer Monson and Sam Kim, among others. Milka was a 2006 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2008 and 2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar, and a co-curator of the Movement Research Festival Spring 2008: Somewhere Out There. She was a guest editor of Critical Correspondence and occasionally posts entries at milkadj.wordpress.com.

DD Dorvillier - NYC since 1989. “Bessie” for Dressed for Floating (2003), and performance in Parades & Changes, replays, (2010). In 1991, she and dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson created the Matzoh Factory. For over a decade, there was wild experimentation and artists coming together for low-tech/low-cost shows, rehearsals, parties, and readings. Worked with: Jennifer Monson, Zeena Parkins, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, and Karen Finley, among others. MR Artist-in-Residence, curator of the MR Festival, and co-editor of MR Performance Journal “Release”. NYFA Fellowship (2000), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2011).

Irene Dowd is currently on the dance faculty of the Juilliard School and the Hollins University/ADF MFA program in dance, as well as a regular guest faculty at Canada's National Ballet School and the dance department at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Author of Taking Root to Fly, she has been teaching dance and kinesthetic anatomy for over 40 years. Irene has choreographed for Peggy Baker, Margie Gillis, and other solo dancers. Her work has been taught in schools and dance companies across the US, Canada, and Europe.

June Ekman is a certified Alexander Teacher, ACAT. She has taught Alexander Technique for over 30 years. On the staff of Sarah Lawrence College since 1988, she works with undergraduate and graduate students in the Theatre department. She has an extensive private practice working primarily with dancers. A former dancer and choreographer herself, Ms. Ekman worked with Alwin Nikolais and Anna Halprin and performed with the Judson Dance Theater in productions choreographed by Remy Charlip, Elaine Summers, Yvonne Rainer and others. She lives and practices in New York City.

Bradley Teal Ellis is a Brooklyn-based improviser. Bradley has studied and practiced contact improvisation for 13 years with teachers Nancy Stark Smith, Danny Lepkoff, Nita Little, K.J. Holmes and many others. He has performed improvisation at Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts, PS1: MoMA, Joyce Soho, 92nd Street Y, The Cunningham Studio, Movement Research at the Judson Church and other institutions.  He has presented work at The Tank (NYC) and Rooftop Dance Festival.  Bradley is a 2012-2013 Artist in Residence at Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), where he is teaching improvisation and building new work to be presented in 2013.

Daria Faïn teaching comes from the development of her performing practice based on 25 years of acute research bridging dance/theater making with research on impaired senses, neuroscience, architecture and cognitive science. Her approach is also based on years of exploring Asian and Western philosophy of the body. She is certified as an Alexander Technique teacher and as a Universal Healing Tao Qi Gong instructor. Her work leads to a deep understanding of the inner structure of the body which contains the complex interplay between all systems of the body/mind symbiosis. Faïn has taught in the U.S. at the Trisha Brown Studio, Tulane University, Adelphi University, Rutgers University, Cooper Union, Sarah Lawrence College, Movement Research, Harvard University and New York University.

Emily Faulkner, an AmSat certified Alexander Technique teacher since 1999, performs, choreographs and teaches dance and AT. She has taught at Wesleyan University, Balance Arts Center, the Freedom to Move Alexander Technique conference, and privately. Her work has been presented by MR at the Judson Church, Philadelphia Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, Triskelion Arts, New Dance Alliance and other organizations. She directs Emily Faulkner/Wind-Up Dances, exploring the idea that when you let your innate mind-body intelligence guide your movement without interference, you allow the dance to dance you. Emily hosts and curates Tea Dances, an eclectic afternoon series featuring emerging and established artists.

Since 1972, Japanese-born choreographer/dancers Eiko & Koma have created a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light and sound. They studied with Kazuo Ohno in Japan, Manja Chmiel in Germany and Lucas Hoving in the Netherlands before moving to New York in 1976. Since then, they have presented their work in theaters, universities, museums, galleries, and festivals world-wide, including numerous appearances at BAM's Next Wave Festival and the American Dance Festival. Eiko & Koma have received many honors, including a 1996 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2004 American Dance Festival Scripps Award and a 2006 Dance Magazine Award. In 2009, Eiko & Koma embarked on a three-year Retrospective Project examining their 40-year history as collaborators. Their most recent work, Naked (2010), is a living installation commissioned by the Walker Art Center, which will be on view at the Baryshnikov Arts Center from March 29-April 9, 2011. For more information please visit www.eikoandkoma.org.

Ori Flomin’s work has been seen in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at the Judson Church, P.S. 122, Dance New Amsterdam and internationally in Austria, Japan and Israel. He teaches dance and yoga as a guest artist for several companies and schools in Europe such as P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), Sasha Waltz Company (Berlin), ImpulsTanz (Vienna), The Place (London), Culberg Ballet (Stockholm) as well as Movement Research and DNA in NYC. As a dancer, Ori performed with the Stephen Petronio Company (1991-99) for which he was also Rehearsal Director (2005-10). He also had the pleasure of working with Neil Greenberg, Molissa Fenley, Maria Hassabi and Michael Clark, among others. He is also a certified Shiatsu practitioner. www.Oriflomin.com

Gabriel Forestieri has been in love with contact since his first introduction 15 years ago. Since then he has taught dance at several institutions and internationally in Brazil, India, Thailand, Germany, France, and Italy. As the Choreographer/Director of projectLIMB (www.projectlimb.net), he is intent on connecting communities with their landscape, resources, and each other. His work in Performance, Martial Arts, Gyrokinesis, Qi Gong, and Thai Massage all inform his dancing and his research in the CI form. Dance is a way of knowing, of experiencing, and of being. I want to share all of those with you – come dance with me!

Simone Forti is a dancer/choreographer/writer. In 1955 she began dancing with Anna Halprin, who was doing pioneering work in dance improvisation. She then studied composition at the Merce Cunningham Studio with Robert Dunn, who was introducing dancers to the work of John Cage. Forti's early dance-constructions were seminal works in the Judson Dance Theater community. Over the years her work has evolved through various approaches. During the past several years she has been practicing an improvisational dance narrative form wherein movement and language spontaneously weave together to explore thoughts and feelings about the world.

Levi Gonzalez is a performer and choreographer whose own work and collaborations with luciana achugar have been presented by Movement Research at Judson Church, DTW, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, and PS1, among others. He has performed with Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, Juliette Mapp, Daria Faïn, ChameckiLerner, Jeremy Nelson, Dennis O’Connor, and Michael Laub. Levi teaches regularly at Movement Research and facilitates various workshops and dialogues with artists. He was a 2003-04 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2006 NYFA Fellow in Choreography, and a 2010-12 BAX Artist-in-Residence.

Lance Gries is an independent dancer, choreographer, and teacher. His early work with the Trisha Brown Company has been honored with a “Bessie” and a Princess Grace Foundation Award. Since 1990, he has created and presented solo and group choreography. His most recent solo performance, Etudes for an Astronaut was nominated for a 2011 “Bessie.” Mr. Gries is a renowned teacher, having taught workshops and master classes throughout the world. In 1994 he was a "founding teacher" of P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, Belgium and continues as a visiting teacher there as well as guest teaching for many other dance companies and institutions in Europe and New York City.

Miguel Gutierrez makes solo and group pieces with a variety of artists under the moniker Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. His work has toured internationally at several festivals and venues and has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, United States Artists, Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund, NYFA, NEA and NPN. He is the winner of three New York Dance and Performance Awards ("Bessies"). WHEN YOU RISE UP, a book of his performance texts, is available from 53rd State Press. He also invented DEEP AEROBICS, an absurdist workout for the radical in all of us. Miguel is currently studying to become a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method. www.miguelgutierrez.org

Hristoula Harakas is a performer, movement teacher and Pilates instructor based in New York since 1996. She received a 2006 "Bessie" performance award and has had the pleasure of working with such inspiring artists as: Maria Hassabi (2002-present), Donna Uchizono Co (2003-10), Jodi Melnick, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Judith Sánchez Ruíz, Chamecki/Lerner, Levi Gonzalez, Amanda Loulaki and Jeremy Nelson and Luis Lara. She was a regular faculty member of the Merce Cunningham Studio (2002-12), and continues to teach the Technique. She has taught technique and repertory workshops extensively in New York City dance studios and universities around the U.S.

Deborah Hay - “Without it being my intention, dance has become a medium for the study and application of detachment. Actually, I prefer the term dis-attachment because it implies a more active role in letting go. The balance between loyalty and dis-attachment from that loyalty, sensually and choreographically, is how the practice of dance remains alive for me.” In October 2009, Hay received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Dance from the Theater Academy in Helsinki, Finland. In spring 2012, she received a Doris Duke Artist Award from the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards program, a cooperative venture with Creative Capital.

Sabine Heubusch, originally from Austria, moved to New York in 1993. She graduated from the American Center of the Alexander Technique in 2001. Sabine also holds teaching certificates in Yoga, Pilates Mat, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and Reiki. She teaches adults and children in New York and gives yearly workshops in Austria. She has taught at NYU, Church Street School for Music and Art, and various public schools, music schools, and fitness studios. She has held a private practice in Alexander Technique since 2001. Sabine created On-Site Dance in 2009 and has performed at Chashama, Dixon Place, Figment, and many site-specific locations in New York and internationally. www.spinelight.com

K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist, actor, singer, and director exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, BMC®, Yoga, Authentic Movement, Release techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies, and contemporary dance and theater. She is a graduate of the School for Body Mind Centering (1999), the William Esper Studio (Meisner acting, 2009) and Satya Yoga (2007) of which the play between is essential to her current performance practices. K.J. teaches and performs throughout the world and has collaborated with Simone Forti, Image Lab and Steve Paxton, among many others. She has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration in Brooklyn, where she lives, is adjunct faculty at NYU/Experimental Theater Wing, and continues to teach through Movement Research. K.J. is a 2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and is currently performing with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People.

John Jasperse is a dance artist living and working in New York City since 1985. His work has been presented by festivals and presenting organizations in Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan, and throughout the US and Europe. Jasperse is the recipient of a 2011 United States Artists Brooks Hopkins Fellowship and fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lambent Foundation. He received a “Bessie” recognizing his body of work. Jasperse has created commissioned works for several companies including Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and the Lyon Opera Ballet, among others.

Eva Karczag is an independent dance artist and educator. For the past three decades she has practiced, taught, and advocated explorative methods of dance making. She performs solo and collaborative work internationally, many of her collaborations involving links across the arts. Her performance work and her teaching are informed by dance improvisation and mindful body practices, including Qigong, the Alexander Technique (certified teacher), and Ideokinesis. She has been a member of leading groups in the field of experimental dance, including the Trisha Brown Dance Company. She has taught throughout the USA, Australia and Europe and has an MFA degree (Dance Research Fellow) from Bennington College.

Jon Kinzel is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist. Since 1988 he has created more than 30 pieces, including numerous commissions and solo shows, which have been presented in a variety of national and international venues. He co-curated the Movement Research Festival Fall 2010 and recently collaborated with Tillett Lighting Design and OHNY/Open House New York. He has been an Adjunct Professor and Guest Artist at Barnard College, New York University, Yale University, Amherst College, Vassar College, and TsEKh International Summer School in Moscow.

Joanna Kotze came to NYC in 1998. She has shown work at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, NYLA Studio Series, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, Movement Research at Judson Church, Roulette, Dixon Place, DNA, and other venues. Her new evening-length work will be presented at Danspace Project, May 30-June 1, 2013. She is a Spring 2013 Fellow at Bogliasco in Italy and a fall artist-in-residence at Djerassi in California. Joanna danced with Wally Cardona for ten years and currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik/daela, and Netta Yerushalmy. She has studied Klein Technique™ with Barbara Mahler since 2003, is originally from South Africa, and has a BA in Architecture from Miami University, Ohio.

Luis Lara Malvacías is a Venezuelan choreographer, dancer, dance teacher and visual artist. He has danced in the work of Jeremy Nelson, David Zambrano, John Jasperse and in his own choreography. He has presented his work at DTW, P.S. 122, Danspace Project, The Kitchen and Joyce SoHo among others. He has taught and created work at several colleges and institutions in the U.S. He regularly teaches and presents work in many countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. He was a 1998-99 and 2002-03 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a 2006 DNA Artist-in-Residence and a recipient of a 2006 NYFA Fellowship for choreography.

Claudia La Rocco is the founder of thePerformanceClub.org, which focuses on criticism as a literary art and won a 2011 Creative Capitol/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts’ graduate program in Art Criticism and Writing, guest teaches internationally (including ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival) and contributes to such publications as Artforum.com, The Brooklyn Rail and tanz. She is a member of the Off The Park poetry press, and her current interdisciplinary collaborations include projects with the visual artist Thomas Micchelli and the choreographer Karen Sherman. She has had residencies at Mount Tremper Arts, Arizona State University and, this summer, Headlands Center for the Arts.

Nia Love earned her M.F.A. in Dance with distinction from FSU. She trained in with Alicia Alonzo in ballet, Min Tanaka in Butoh, and King Osei Tutu II of Ghana. Nia Love is a two-time award recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Fellow Award. Presently, her work has been showcased at Sadler's Wells (London, England), The Joyce Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Central Park's Summer Stage, Dance Theater Workshop, Symphony Space and Dancenow Festival, among others. Ms. Love has served as Adjunct Professor and Guest Lecturer at Manhattanville College, Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, Smith College, and Florida State University.

Barbara Mahler is a widely respected performer, choreographer, movement educator, and a recipient of a BAX 10 award for 2013 in Arts Education. She travels extensively as a guest artist to many festivals and colleges across the US, Canada, and Europe. Barbara is a master teacher of and major contributor in the development and outreach Klein Technique. Currently, she is an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research and the Theater School/Dance Division in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her studies in the field of movement span a huge spectrum of forms, aesthetics, and ideas. She received a BA in dance from Hunter College, NYC, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her choreographic vision and passion is the small and intimate dance. Barbara has been a recipient of the Sage Cowles Land Grant, Meet the Composer, and was a 2000-02 and 2006-08 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, a recipient of CAVE residency, and a member of LEAP, 2011-12. Barbara is also a body worker- faculty and certified practitioner of ZeroBalancing. www.barbaramahler.net

Juliette Mapp is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in NYC. Juliette has taught and performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South America and the United States. She has been on the faculty of The George Washington University, Hunter College, Fordham University and currently teaches at The New School. Juliette was a 2004/05 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She received a “Bessie” in 2002 for her dancing and one in 2008 for choreography.

Clare Maxwell teaches the Alexander Technique privately and on the faculty of the William Esper Acting Studio in NYC. She trained at ACAT in 2000 and was certified in 2010 with Jessica Wolf/The Art of Breathing. She is also inspired by the Dart Process work of Joan and Alex Murray. In every class, Clare experiments with the basic principles of the Alexander Technique applied to movements that underlie all styles of dance. Clare has recently been healing shoulder and hip injuries by working in prone with micro-crawling, rolling, push, pull, and reach patterns that follow the spiral design of our musculature.

Jennifer Monson (Artistic director, choreographer and performer, iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) uses choreographic practice as a means to discover connections between environmental, philosophical and aesthetic approaches to knowledge and understandings of our surroundings. She creates large scale dance projects informed and inspired by phenomena of the natural and the built environment. Her recent projects include BIRD BRAIN (2000-05), iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir (2007) inNYC, Mahomet Aquifer Project (2009) in Illinois, and SIP(sustained immersive process)/watershed (2010) in NYC. Her current project is Live Dancing Archive. Monson is on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign in the Dance Department.  

Charles Mosey has been practicing, researching, facilitating, and teaching Contact Improvisation for over 20 years. In that time, he has had the opportunity to work in depth with Daniel Lepkoff and Nancy Stark Smith.

Lisa Nelson is a dance-maker, improvisational performer, and collaborative artist, who has been exploring the role of the senses in the performance and observation of movement since the 70s. She performs, teaches and creates dances in diverse spaces on many continents, and maintains long-term collaborations with other artists, including Steve Paxton, Daniel Lepkoff, Scott Smith, and Tuning Band-Brussels. She lives in Vermont in the U.S.

Jennifer Nugent is a performer, teacher, and choreographer. She was a member of David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007 and has had opportunities to work intensively with Daniel Lepkoff, Nina Winthrop, Lisa Race, Yin Mei, Doug Elkins, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Kate Weare, and Martha Clarke. Jennifer has taught and performed her own work at festivals, theaters, and universities throughout the United States, Korea, Russia, and Vietnam. Jennifer was a 2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She is currently dancing with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Tim O’Donnell first began investigating CI in the Bay Area in 1995. Since then he has taught and performed for numerous organizations, universities, and festivals in both Europe and the United States. He holds an MFA in Dance and has maintained a private practice in therapeutic bodywork and somatic movement for the last 15 years. His exploration in movement and improvisation is strongly rooted in a deep physical listening while maintaining a sense of adventure. His classes range from the gentle and subtle to the acrobatic and fluidly athletic. Tim continues to draw inspiration for his work from the natural world, his love of travel and the kindness of strangers.

Cori Olinghouse is a dance artist and certified Alexander Technique teacher. Her work has been presented by Danspace Project, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Museum of Art and Movement Research. Cori performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002-06. In 2005, Cori began a dancing dialogue with Bill Irwin and has since been studying voguing with Archie Burnett and Benny Ninja. Teaching credits include: Alexander Technique classes to the Trisha Brown company members, guest classes at New York University, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Bennington College, Ohio State University, and TsEKh in Moscow. Cori was a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. coriolinghouse.wordpress.com

Margaret Paek is dedicated to collaboration and sees dance as a life practice. She works extensively with Lower Left (www.lowerleft.org) and has enjoyed creating with projectLIMB, Keith Hennessy, Lionel Popkin, BodyCartography, Milka Djordjevich, and Mary Overlie. She is influenced by her relationships with contact improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, Alexander Technique, Barbara Dilley, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Loren Dempster, and their daughter. Recently she directed an ensemble of performers and their progeny for the Whitney Museum Biennial. Margaret has taught at several colleges, the International Contact Festival Freiburg, Kontakt Budapest, and the Swedish Dance Alliance. She received her MFA from Hollins University/ADF.

Jimena Paz is an independent dancer, teacher and maker who shares her time and heart between New York, Europe and Argentina. Currently developing a project on foreignness and a fictional and portable-landless Argentina. Had the pleasure to work with Vicky Shick, Susan Rethorst, the Stephen Petronio Company (‘99–‘06), Constanza Macras (Berlin), Iris Scaccheri (Buenos Aires), Burt Barr (video) Analia Segal, Virginie Yassef (France), Antonio Ramos and Todd Williams among others; Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Jimena is on faculty at the National Danish School for Contemporary Dance, under the direction of Jeremy Nelson and teaches internationally.

Kayvon Pourazar is of Persian origin, and was raised in Iran, Turkey and England. He graduated with a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase in May 2000. He has performed in the works of John Jasperse Company, Yasuko Yokoshi, Juliette Mapp, Beth Gill, Levi Gonzalez, Donna Uchizono Company, Jennifer Monson, Doug Varone and Dancers, K.J. Holmes, Wil Swanson and Gabriel Masson Dance. In 2010 he received a New York Dance & Performance "Bessie" Award for Performance. He has been a guest artist teacher at Bennington College, University of Maryland and Sacramento State University. He currently performs with Juliana May and Gwen Welliver.

Jen Rosenblit has been making dances in NYC since 2005 after graduating from Hampshire College. Rosenblit has taught for CLASSCLASSCLASS, Bowdoin College and Hollins University, and organized independent lab-like classes on performance and improvisation. Rosenblit’s work has taken her to Denmark, Moscow, and Milan as well as premieres in NYC at Dance Theater Workshop’s 2009 Fresh Tracks Series, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church Platform 2010, Dance Theater Workshop’s 2011 Studio Series, a New York Live Arts 2012 split evening, and Issue Project Room. Rosenblit is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art 2012 grant for artists. www.bottomheavies.blogspot.com

Shelley Senter has been involved with experimental and post-modern dance for more than twenty-five years, touring the world as a performer, choreographer, and teacher. She has been critically recognized and awarded for her distinct approach to movement, both as an independent artist and as a collaborator/performer with many distinguished artists. She is a member of Lower Left artist collective and a repetiteur of the seminal works of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, which she stages internationally. A renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique, she has been investigating the application of the principles of this technique to the performing body and mind for nearly two decades.

Azusa has been a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch since 2000. She was born in Japan, studied ballet in Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. In 1994 she studied at North Carolina School Of The Arts. After dancing in several companies she went to Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.

Vicky Shick has been involved in the NYC dance community since the late 1970s, performing, choreographing, and teaching. A member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company for 6 years, she has also worked with many other NYC-based choreographers. She received “Bessies” for performance (1985) and choreography (2003), and most recently showed work in April at Danspace Project. Shick teaches regularly in Europe and the U.S., mostly for Movement Research, and for the last 12 years at Hunter College. She was a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

Jill Sigman asks questions through the medium of the body. Trained in dance, art history, and analytic philosophy, Sigman has been making dances and performance installations since the early 90s. Her work currently exists at the intersection of dance, theater, and visual installation, and she is currently at work on a multi-site project building huts from found and repurposed materials. Sigman’s dances have been produced by such New York City venues as Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Dancing in the Streets, and the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. Internationally, her work has been shown in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, and India. As a teacher, Sigman teaches nationally at colleges and universities; she has been a member of the dance faculty at Princeton University, a movement tutor at the Imaginary Academy in Groznjan, Croatia, a professor of aesthetics and performance theory at Brooklyn College and The New School, and a recent teacher in Oslo, Norway. This spring Sigman is an Artist in Residence at Wesleyan University. See: www.thinkdance.org

Shakti Andrea Smith took her first Contact class on Maui in 1990, and has been dancing CI, teaching movement, performing, and practicing bodywork ever since. She has taught Contact from Vermont to India, to folks ranging in age from 8 to 80, at locations including UVM, DNE, and Earthdance. She is known for her in-depth warm-ups that assist you in becoming more fully present; leading to safe, soft, full and fantastic dancing. She has a degree in Transpersonal Psychology and is pursuing her Somatic Movement Educator's certification with Moving on Center. In 2013 Shakti opens Prema Healing Arts, a center for Bodywork, inner movement, and all things healing. For more info on Shakti see www.MassageandMovement.com.

Nancy Stark Smith first trained as an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study and perform dance in the early 1970s, greatly influenced by the Judson era breakthroughs. She danced in the first performances of contact improvisation (CI) with Steve Paxton and others in 1972 and has since been central to its development as dancer, teacher, performer, writer/publisher, and organizer, traveling worldwide to teach and perform CI and other improvised works. She co-founded and has been making Contact Quarterly dance journal since 1975.

Stacy Matthew Spence is a choreographer, teacher, and dancer based in New York City. Stacy’s work has been commissioned by Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, EDge at London Contemporary Dance School, The University of New Mexico, and the OtherShore Dance Company in New York. In addition he has taught at other national and international institutions such as Movement Research; Ohio State University; Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France; and Laban Trinity in London. Stacy danced with Trisha Brown Dance Company (1997-2006), and continues to be involved with the company through teaching and re-staging several of her works. He was a 2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and an Artist in Residence 2011-2012 for New York Live Arts Studio Series. 

RoseAnne Spradlin's work has been called raw, luminous and darkly emotional. Her provocative choreography has earned a “Bessie” Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. Her company appeared at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna in 2007; RoseAnne has taught frequently in Europe and on the East and West Coasts in the U.S. She studied and taught for many years with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and also explores body/mind integration through the practice of Classical Chinese Medicine.

David Thomson is a collaborative artist who has worked in a wide range of movement-based disciplines since the early 80s with such artists/companies as Trisha Brown (1987-93), Susan Rethorst, Bebe Miller, Ralph Lemon, Dean Moss, Reggie Wilson, Meg Stuart, Marina Abramović, and Alain Buffard, among others. He was honored with a "Bessie" in 2001 for Sustained Achievement and in 2006 as part of the creative team of Landing/Place. His own work has been supported and presented by The Kitchen, Danspace Project, and Dance Theater Workshop. He is a 2011 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Mike Vargas began playing music in 1959. He started specializing in music for dance in 1978. He works as a freelance composer across the U.S. and internationally, performing, teaching, recording, and improvising. For the past 13 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.

Larissa Velez-Jackson is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and multimedia artist. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: the New Museum, PS 122, and Abrons Arts Center as part of American Realness ‘11 . Velez-Jackson was a Dance Theater Workshop Fresh Tracks resident in ’09 for her collaboration with Hilary Clark and was also a Studio Series ‘09 resident. She was a danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz Dance Festival ‘12 and is currently a 2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Gwen Welliver is a dancer and choreographer; with recent work presented at CPR, DTW, 92Y Harkness Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, and Bennington College. Welliver performed with Doug Varone and Dancers (1990-2000), was a recipient of a “Bessie” for Sustained Achievement in 2000, and was Rehearsal Director at the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2000-07. She teaches worldwide: ADF; Dansens Hus (DK); International Summer School of Dance (JP); Kalamata International Dance Festival (GR); P.A.R.T.S. (BE); TsEKh Summer School (RU); Movement Research faculty member 1997-present; previously on the faculty of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (1995-00, 2009-11); Bennington College (2007-09 Fellow); currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College.

Kathy Westwater is a NY-based choreographer and, since 2001, faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, where she received an MFA. Drawn to pedestrian movement and cross-disciplinary approaches to making, in the late 80s and early 90s she began studying with postmodern dance pioneers, including Simone Forti, Dana Reitz, and Sara Rudner. Since 1996, through means both intuitive and analytical, she has collaborated with visual artists, architects, composers, and poets to create numerous works. Her choreography explores striking intimacies between her own body and what lies spatially and materially beyond its form. Most recently, she locates her research in Fresh Kills, NY, once the largest landfill in the world.