Wendell Beavers, Chair of Naropa University's MFA Theater: Contemporary Performance Program; founding faculty member and Director (1985-90) of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing; co-founder and Director (1980-83) of Movement Research; creator of Developmental Technique™, based on the developmental movement and experiential anatomy work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen; early collaborator with Mary Overlie on the development of her Six-Viewpoint work; Choreography has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research at Judson Church, Danspace Project, Dixon Place and the American Dance Festival.

Ione Beauchamp has been practicing CI for 20 years.  She is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, Trager, as well as a yoga teacher and dancer/choreographer.  She danced with Wire Monkey Dance (on scaffolding) since 2000.  Currently, she is a member of ESL (Emergent Scores Lab) based in Troy, NY, as well as creating her own work, which has recently been taking the form of Somatic Presence in Video Art.  She also teaches at UAlbany and Bennington College.

Olive Bieringa co-directs the BodyCartography Project with Otto Ramstad. Their work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work, and has been presented at venues internationally including an upcoming commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet. Olive is a certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®.  She co-founded the SEEDS Festival at Earthdance.  She has been teaching for the past 15 years at festivals, universities and for companies internationally.  www.bodycartography.org

Michelle Boulé is a dance artist, teacher, and BodyTalk Practitioner. Based in NY, she has performed and taught internationally for the past 11 years. Artists she has worked with include Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (since 2001), Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Donna Uchizono, Liz Santoro, Neal Beasley, Christine Elmo, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone, and Gabriel Masson. Her work has been shown in NY at Judson Church, CPR, Danspace Project and P.S. 122. In 2002, she was a DanceWeb scholarship recipient at ImpulsTanz, Vienna. Her interests are continually inspired by the pleasure she finds in the incredible potentials of the body.

Rebecca Brooks is a dance artist and AmSat certified Alexander Technique teacher. She has taught group classes at Balance Arts Center, ADF, and CLASSCLASSCLASS, and teaches privately in Brooklyn. As a performer Rebecca currently works with Marina Abramović, Amanda Loulaki and Kathy Westwater, and recent work includes projects with robbinschilds, Heather Kravas, Jillian Peña and Katy Pyle. Her own works have been presented throughout NYC and in California. www.rebeccabrooks.com

Gerald Casel danced with Michael Clark, Lar Lubovitch, Zvi Gotheiner and the Stephen Petronio Company earning him a 'Bessie' award.  His company, GERALDCASELDANCE has performed across the country and at many NYC venues including Danspace Project, DTW and Joyce SoHo. In '99 and '06-07, he was a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he received an MFA from UW-Milwaukee and is a faculty member at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.  He is a certified yoga teacher and is a practitioner of Thai Yoga Bodywork. www.geraldcaseldance.com

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. 

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

DD Dorvillier is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. She has presented her works in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Current projects include: The Blanket Dance with Jefta Van Dinther and Frederic Gies; Piece Sans Paroles with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen; and Anarchive #2: Secondhand with Deuffert/Plishke. She has worked with: Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Zeena Parkins, Thomas Dunn, Yvonne Meier, Sarah Michelson, David Bergé, and Karen Finley, among others. She was a NYFA Choreography Fellow (1999), a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence (1995/96 & 2006/07) and co-curated Movement Research Festivals (2004 & 2005), received a “Bessie” for Dressed for Floating (2002) and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and was co-mentor, with Trajal Harrell, of the DanceWeb program in Vienna (2008).

Irene Dowd is currently on the dance faculty of the Juilliard School and Canada’s National Ballet School, as well as the Hollins University/ADF MFA program in dance. Author of Taking Root to Fly, she has been teaching dance and kinesthetic anatomy for 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 U.S. and Canada.

Jeanine Durning is grateful that inquiry into the multiplicity of the body and its expression is never-ending and that her relationship to this inquiry is ever shifting and ongoing. She sees the three aspects of her practice (making, performing and teaching) as integral to and informing each other. Since 1998, Durning has been creating both solo and group performance on a project basis with a core group of collaborators. Central to her choreographic practice in the last few years are the overlapping ideas of memory, biography and documentary, within and through the frame of live performance. Her works, out of a kennel, into a home (2005) and Ex-Memory: waywewere (2009) further these ideas as well as explore the theatrical experience as a re/constructed reality. In the last few years, Jeanine has performed in the works of Deborah Hay, Susan Rethorst and Chris Yon. She spent nine years with David Dorfman Dance.  Durning’s current research has to do with fundamental questions of how body/movement, thought/imagination and language/speech interact and intersect.

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 PARTS (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 was a featured dancer 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.

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 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 Martial arts, Gyrokinesis, and Thai Massage all inform his dancing and 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!

Levi Gonzalez is a performer and choreographer whose works and collaborations with luciana achugar have been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, DTW, The Kitchen, Danspace Project and P.S. 1, among others. He has performed with Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, 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 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence 2003/04, a 2006 NYFA Fellow in Choreography, and is a current Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Ziji Beth Goren is a certified teacher-practitioner of Body- Mind Centering® since 1982 and a founding member of Movement Research and BMC Association. She studied with Irmgard Bartenieff at the Laban Institute for Movement Studies in the seventies. Her signature devotion is Voice- Movement-Touch practices explored from a foundation of BMC and tribal culture-rhythms. These practices offer tools that support wholeness and the creation of performance. Beth is author of Rapids, producer of Tribes CD, and currently working on a booklet-CD for Immune Integrity. In 2008, she was awarded a poetry prize presented at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and publication of three photos in Caesura Magazine. Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Director, School for Body-Mind Centering®: “As a teacher, Beth has shown great capacity for working with both groups and individuals. I have seen her find new and different ways to help others reach their potential.”

Miguel Gutierrez is a dance and music artist based in Brooklyn. He makes solo and group work 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 Creative Capital, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund, NYFA, NEA and NPN. He is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Art Fellowship, and a winner of two “Bessie” awards, one in 2002 for dancing with John Jasperse Company, and one in 2006 for choreography. He invented DEEP AEROBICS. www.miguelgutierrez.org

Deborah Hay born 1941 in Brooklyn and now lives in Austin, TX. She dances, performs, teaches, choreographs, and writes. At this time she primarily works in Europe. Her books include Lamb at The Altar: The Story of a Dance, (Duke University Press, 1994) and My Body, the Buddhist, (Wesleyan University Press, 2000) now in its third printing. In October 2009 the Theater Academy in Helsinki, Finland, presented her with an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Dance.

K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist 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 completed a two-year training of the Sanford Meisner acting technique at the William Esper Studio in NYC in June of 2009. She teaches and performs throughout the world and has collaborated with Simone Forti, Image Lab and Steve Paxton, among many others. K.J. is a 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering® and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration in Brooklyn, NY where she lives. She is adjunct faculty at NYU/Experimental Theater Wing and continues to teach through Movement Research.

Iréne Hultman is a native of Sweden and a NY-based choreographer. Her work spans over 15 years and had several premieres at The Joyce Theater and Danspace Project. She has also choreographed seven Opera Productions as well as musicals and cabarets including South Pacific and A Touch of Kurt Weil. She is the co-Founder of Järna-Brooklyn, a Swedish-American cultural entity that encourages artistic experimentation and exchange. She was rehearsal director for the Trisha Brown Dance Company 2007-2008. She was also a member of TBDC from 1983-88

HeJin Jang, born and raised in Seoul, Korea, is a choreographer, performer, teacher, video artist, and writer supported by Arts Council Korea. Jang has taught in the U.S. and Korea including at the ADF, University of Michigan, Hollins University and ACDFA. She has presented her work and performed in the work of other artists at many venues, including Centre Chorégraphique National, Ballet de Lorraine (France), WUK (Vienna), The Kitchen, Joyce Soho, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Tanzhaus (Zurich), Reynolds Theater, Ruth St. Denis Studio, Ontological Theater, and Center for Performance Research. Jang has researched and created 13 works on the theme of "silence" in the past two years, and she is thrilled to share loud silence with the community of Movement Research through this workshop. She holds MFA’s in dance from both the University of Michigan and the HU/ADF program. She is a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. www.hejinjangdance.com

John Jasperse lives and works in New York City.  He has created several shorter works and 12 evening-length works including, most recently, Misuse liable to prosecution ('07) and Becky, Jodi, John ('07). John Jasperse Company has been presented by festivals and presenting organizations in the U.S, Brazil, Chile, Israel, Japan, and throughout Europe. Jasperse has created commissioned works for other companies including Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Batsheva Dance Company, and the Lyon Opera Ballet. Jasperse's work has been awarded several prestigious awards including a “Bessie” Award in 2001. Jasperse's work has been supported by fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Tides Foundation’s Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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.

Joanna Kotze has been dancing in New York since 1998 and began creating her own work in 2004. She has shown work at DNA, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the 92nd Street Y, WAXworks and Soho20 Gallery's Savior Faire Fall 2010 Performance Series. She is a 2010 recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and a 2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space resident. Joanna was a 2010 Choreographers' Project Fellow at Summer Stages Dance in Concord, MA. She has danced with Wally Cardona since 2000 and also currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Netta Yerushalmy and Daniel Charon. 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, Mark Tompkins, John Jasperse, Yoshiko Chuma, and in his own choreography.  He has presented his work in New York since 1994, including DTW, P.S. 122, Danspace Project, the Kitchen and Joyce Soho among others. In the United States he has taught, created and presented work in several colleges and institutions. Internationally, 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 and a 2006 Dance New Amsterdam Artist-in-Residence. He is the recipient of a 2006 NYFA Fellowship for choreography.

Barbara Mahler, formerly of the Klein/Mahler School of Dance and Movement Studies, is a widely respected dance teacher and innovator, active in the development of post-modern dance technique. A noted choreographer/performer of international reputation, she has presented her work at many festivals and venues across the nation, as well as in Canada and Europe. As a master teacher of Klein Technique, she has taught a generation of performers and choreographers. Beginning her studies with Susan Klein in 1977, she taught the majority of classes at the Susan Klein School of Dance 1983-2003, moving on to become an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research and other movement organizations. 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, under the tutelage of Dorothy Vislocky, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her choreographic vision and passion is the solo dance. Barbara has been a recipient of the Sage Cowles Land Grant Guest Artist and was a 2000 and 2006 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Barbara is also a movement consultant at Hunter College, and a teacher and certified practitioner of Zero Balancing, a hands-on healing bodywork modality. 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, dancer/choreographer based in NYC since 1980, has a private practice and is on the faculty of the William Esper Acting Studio. After a 25 year career as an independent dancer and choreographer, she completed training at ACAT/NYC and recently trained with Jessica Wolf/The Art of Breathing. Clare’s students range from highly skilled performers to people living with severe disabilities. Her focus in teaching is the presence of under-utilized movement potential and coordination, and the process of expanding that creative potential. Class will use principles of the AT to explore this in ensemble and solo movement forms.

Jennifer Monson is the artistic director of iLAND – interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance. Her projects iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir and BIRD BRAIN are based in the investigation of the relationship between environment and embodied practice. She is currently teaching at the Dance Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of an initiative to bring environmental issues to the forefront of the university and the community at large. 

Charles Mosey has been practicing, researching, facilitating and teaching Contact Improvisation for nearly 20 years. In that time he has had the opportunity to work closely with Daniel Lepkoff and Nancy Stark Smith. Recently he co-organized and hosted a conference examining Contact Improvisation in the academy at Connecticut College. He is currently a guest teacher at the Juilliard School Dance Division.

Jeremy Nelson is a dancer/choreographer and former member of the Stephen Petronio Dance Company. He has also danced in the work of David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis Lara Malvacías, and in his own work, and with improviser Kirstie Simson. He received a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for performance in 1991 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2004. In the last 20 years he has taught classes/workshops in over 30 countries at venues including ADF, ImPulsTanz, P.A.R.T.S., and the Sasha Waltz Company. He is currently Head of Dance at the Danish School of Contemporary Dance in Copenhagen.

Jennifer Nugent is a performer, teacher, and choreographer. She was a member of David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007, receiving a “Bessie” in 2006 for her performing work with the company. In NY Jennifer has danced with Daniel Lepkoff, Nina Winthrop, Lisa Race, Yin Mei, Doug Elkins, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, and Martha Clarke. She continuously collaborates with Paul Matteson and is currently dancing with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Jennifer has taught and performed at festivals and universities throughout the United States, Korea, Russia, and Vietnam.  She is also a 2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Tim O’Donnell has been studying, teaching and performing CI for over 10 years. His exploration in the form is strongly rooted in a deep physical listening and a sense of adventure. His classes range from the gentle and subtle to the acrobatic and fluidly athletic. He holds an MFA in Dance and has been a bodyworker since 1991. Currently he is teaching and performing in NYC where he resides.

Margaret Paek is committed to collective process and inspired by the practice of integration. Currently collaborating with Lower Left (www.lowerleft.org), projectLIMB (www.projectlimb.net), Stochastic Ensemble, and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Margaret has been deeply influenced by relationships with Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Mary Overlie, Barbara Dilley, Deborah Hay, Milka Djordjevich, Keith Hennessy, and many others. With Lower Left, she facilitates programs such as “March 2 Marfa,” an annual dance lab. A movement educator for over fifteen years, Margaret practices and teaches Contact Improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, and other techniques. She will receive her MFA from the Hollins University/ADF low residency program in 2011.

Lisa Race has spent most of her career as a performer, teacher and choreographer in New York, where her dances have been seen at DTW, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church and recently with DanceNOW [NYC]. She has taught, performed and choreographed at universities and festivals throughout the world.  Race received a “Bessie” in 1995 for her dancing with David Dorfman Dance (1989-2000).  Having completed an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF in 2007, she is an assistant professor at Connecticut College.  Since moving to Connecticut in 2004, she has shown work at Wesleyan, The Yard, CT Dance Exchange at the Arts & Ideas Festival in New Haven, Roger Williams University, Rhode Island College and the Hartford Arts Academy, as well as Krasnoyarsk, Russia and MadeInFrance.

Ann Rodiger is the Founder of the Balance Arts Center and the BAC Alexander Technique Teacher Training Program. She has been teaching the Alexander Technique for nearly 30 years. Ann holds a Master of Arts in Dance from the Ohio State University and taught in university settings for over 8 years. She is an expert in Laban’s work, has studied a variety of dance techniques, yoga, and other bodywork modalities. Recently she produced the Freedom to Move:  Dance and the Alexander Technique Conference in NYC.

Shelley Senter has been involved with experimental dance for more than 25 years, performing, teaching and making dances around the globe. She has been critically recognized and awarded for her distinct approach to movement, both as an independent artist, and as a collaborator with many distinguished artists. She is an official transmitter of the seminal work of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. An internationally renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique, her work is known for its influence in multiple artistic disciplines.

Vicky Shick, an independent dancer and choreographer, has been involved in the NYC dance community since the late 1970s. A member of the Trisha Brown Company for 6 years, she has also worked with many other NY-based choreographers. She received “Bessies” for performance (1985) and choreography (2003), has shown her own work since the mid-80s and teaches regularly in the US and Europe. She was a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.

Shakti Smith has been dancing, teaching, and practicing bodywork for twenty years. Along with CI, she teaches Authentic Movement, and Dance Meditations in Brooklyn and Manhattan; she also teaches at Earthdance, Dance New England, and in the Boston area. Shakti is known for her in-depth warm-ups, which assist you in becoming more fully present. This leads to safe, soft, full, and fantastic dancing. She has a degree in Transpersonal Psychology and is pursuing her Somatic Movement certification with Moving on Center. For more info on Shakti see www.MassageandMovement.com.

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.

Gwen Welliver has taught worldwide at venues including ADF (North Carolina, Chile), International Summer School of Dance (Japan), Kalamata International Dance Festival (Greece), Movement Research (NYC, '97-present), NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ('95-'00), P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium), TSEKH Summer School (Moscow); performed with Doug Varone and Dancers ('90-'00); "Bessie" Award for Sustained Achievement ('00); Rehearsal Director Trisha Brown Dance Company ('00-'07); MFA/Teaching Fellowship Bennington College ('07-'09).

Sarah White-Ayón is a performer, choreographer, video artist, and Alexander Technique teacher. She holds a BFA in dance from UMKC, an AmSAT recognized Alexander Technique Teaching Certificate from the Balance Arts Center, 2007, and is currently pursuing an MFA in video art at the School of Visual Arts. She is endlessly impressed with how practices such as the Alexander Technique access a range of layers of consciousness from the physical to the metaphysical; from responding to one's environment to self, memory, myth and beyond. She has a private practice in Manhattan and is a teaching staff member of the Balance Arts Center.

Reggie Wilson (Artistic Director and performer) founded his company, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the movement languages of the blues, slave and spiritual cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he now calls "post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances."  His work has been presented nationally and internationally. fistandheel@verizon.net

Jessica Wolf, teacher of The Alexander Technique and a memberof the American Society for the Alexander Technique, has maintained a private practice in New York Citysince 1977. She is also a Certified MovementAnalyst from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. For over 30 years, Jessica has been exploring and conductingresearch in respiratory function and breath. She was one of only a dozen people given permission by Carl Stough to teach his principles of breathing coordination. In 2002,Jessica became the director of a training programfor Alexander teachers in "The Art of Breathing.” Jessica joined the faculty of Yale School of Drama in 1998.