K.J. Holmes is an independent dancer, singer, poet and body worker who has been exploring improvisation as process and performanc since 1981. She teaches, choreographs and performs at festivals, universities and venues throughout the world, as a soloist and in her collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith) and in the work of Steve Paxton. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering (r), yoga, Authentic movement, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. A 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering, K.J. is adjunct faculty at New York University Experimental Theater Wing, continues to teach in New York through Movement where she was artist in residence 1993-94, at the Trisha Brown Studio and the Panetta Movement Center. She has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration in Brooklyn, New York where she lives. K.J. is currently a student of Sanford Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio.
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K.J. Holmes