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.

Rachel Bernsen is a dance artist and certified Alexander Technique teacher. The Technique informs her teaching, dancing and choreography in her work’s investigation of presence, embodiment and availability. Since 2005, she has presented her work at Dance Theater Workshop, The Free Music Festival Antwerp, Belgium, Issue Project Room, Danspace Project, Movement Research Spring Festival, Roulette, Dixon Place and Catch!, among others. She has been a guest artist at Wesleyan University, Yale University, Connecticut College and the Moscow Dance Agency Tsekh Summer Dance Program in Moscow, Russia. Bernsen was a contributor to and former managing editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal. She was an NEA Honorary Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists program (2007) and holds an MFA in Dance from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. www.rachelbernsen.com

Michelle Boulé is a dance artist, teacher and BodyTalk Practitioner. Based in New York, she has performed and taught internationally for the past 12 years. Artists she has worked with include Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People (since 2001), John Scott, David Wampach, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, and Donna Uchizono. Her choreography has been shown at Movement Research at the Judson Church, CPR, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, and The Bushwick Starr. She received a 2010 “Bessie” for her performance and collaboration with MGPP. Her teaching is influenced by her studies of numerous somatic approaches and the application of this information to an aesthetic practice. michelleboule.wordpress.com

Rebecca Brooks is a dance artist and AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. She is on faculty at Balance Arts Center and St. Margaret's House and maintains a private practice in Brooklyn. She has taught ongoing classes and workshops at Movement Research, 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 living in NYC since 1997. After an apprenticeship with Tanztheater Wuppertal/Pina Bausch in 2000, she joined the Bill.T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Co. in 2001. Between 2001- 2010, she took part in the creation of eight original productions and numerous repertory pieces and performed these works extensively around the world. Since leaving this full time position, she danced with Martha Clarke, Jennifer Nugent, and collabrated with Nu Dance Theater on a site the specific project "DorianC." which is being adopted to a short film. She is currently working with Bill Young and with Daniel Clifton on a new creation. She teaches dance technique in New York City and occasionally at Bard Collage as a guest lecturer. Recently certified as a yoga instructor, she offers morning vinyasa flow classes at NYLA.

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. 

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 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.

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, MoMA PS 1, 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. 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 2012.

Daria Faïn’s 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, 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!

Jane Gabriels is a performer, writer and events producer. Much of her work centers in the South Bronx, where she directs Pepatian and the Young Roots Performance Series at Hostos. Gabriels has performed her poems, songs and been part of many dance theater projects throughout NYC and Montreal, Canada, in collaboration (choreographers: Ori Flomin, Jessie Flores, Antonio Ramos, Awilda Sterling, Todd Williams, Alyson Wishnousky; costume designer Christine Darch; filmmaker Xi Feng; poet Stella Padnos-Shea; musician Valerie Kuehne) and as a soloist. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and her current studies link urban planning with research/creative processes. www.janegabriels.com

Levi Gonzalez is a performer and choreographer whose own work and his collaborations with luciana achugar have been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, DTW, The Kitchen, Danspace Project and PS1, 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 currently a BAX Artist-in-Residence.

Ziji Beth Goren has devoted the past 35 years to exploring and applying voice-movement practices to a strong foundation in Body-Mind Centering®. Certified as teacher-practitioner in 1982, Beth is a founding member of Movement Research and the BMC® Association. She performed with Nancy Topf, Simone Forti, and Sara Mann in NYC, and with Al Wunder, Ruth Zaporah, and Terry Sendgraff in Berkeley, CA. She has traveled extensively, participating in voice-movement practices within tribal and folk cultures worldwide, and currently leads a 500 hour training program in SoundBody Systems in Amherst, MA. She is the author of RAPIDS, Visions for Body-Mind Centering® and field recorder/co-producer of TRIBES CD.

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

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.

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 continues to hold a private practice in Alexander Technique since 2001. Sabine created On-Site Dance in 2009. www.spinelight.com

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 Monti, is a native of Sweden.  From 1983-88, Hultman was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company where she also worked as rehearsal director 2006-09. She has worked on seven opera productions and numerous commissions including Gothenburg Opera Ballet and Royal Opera House of Sweden.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award among others.

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.

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, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Danspace Food for Thought, Roulette, Dixon Place, DNA, the 92nd Street Y, WAXworks, Lu Magnus and Soho20 gallery. In 2012, Joanna is a Studio Series artist at New York Live Arts and a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab. She has danced with Wally Cardona since 2000 and currently dances for Kimberly Bartosik/daela and Netta Yerushalmy. She has studied Klein technique with Barbara Mahler since 2003. She 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 (1994-2004), David Zambrano, Mark Tompkins, John Jasperse, Yoshiko Chuma and in his own choreography. He has been presenting his work in New York since 1994, at venues 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 at several colleges and institutions. He regularly teaches and presents work internationally in many countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia. He was a 1998-1999 and 2002-2003 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.

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 choreographer/performer/teacher, active in the development of post-modern dance technique. She has and does travel extensively, teaching and creating at many festivals and venues across the nation, as well as in Canada and Europe. Beginning her studies with Susan Klein in 1977, Barbara is a master teacher of Klein Technique. She taught at the Susan Klein School of Dance 1983-2002, and the Klein/Mahler School of Dance 2002-04. She has since become an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research. 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 Prof. Dorothy Vislocky, 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 2000-01 and 2006-07 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. Barbara is a senior faculty and certified practitioner of Zero Balancing, maintaining a private practice in bodywork. 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/educator, has a private Alexander Technique teaching practice in NYC and is on the faculty of the William Esper Acting Studio. She trained to teach the Alexander Technique at ACAT/NYC in 2000 and certified with Jessica Wolf in The Art of Breathing in 2010. Clare performed with Ann Carlson, Amy Sue Rosen, and many others, and she has made her own works for 25 years. Clare wants to help her students overcome limiting ideas and ways of moving that cause injury, pain and anxiety. She uses the AT principles to support joyfully coordinated intention, action and sensitivity.

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 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.

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 NYC, Jennifer has danced with Daniel Lepkoff, Nina Winthrop, Lisa Race, Yin Mei, Doug Elkins, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Kate Weare and Martha Clarke. She was also a 2008 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence. Jennifer has taught and performed at festivals and universities throughout the United States, Korea, Russia and Vietnam. 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 is deeply influenced by her relationships with Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, and their daughter and enjoys creating with Lower Left (www.lowerleft.org) and projectLIMB (www.projectlimb.net). Margaret has danced with Mary Overlie, Keith Hennessy, Lionel Popkin, and BodyCartography. She regularly teaches at Marymount Manhattan and Manhattanville Colleges.  With Lower Left, she facilitates “March 2 Marfa” (a performance lab – past artists have included Barbara Dilley, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton), and in July they will teach and perform at Kontakt Budapest. 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.

The Phoneme Choir, co-founded and co-directed by choreographer Daria Faïn and poet-architect Robert Kocik, was initially developed with the support of the 2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program. The Phoneme Choir has performed at Movement Research at the Judson Church (2008), Movement Research Festival (2009), been co-presented by Danspace Project and the Poetry Project, and co-presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Movement Research Festival (2010). The Phoneme Choir will perform for The American Project at the Harlem Stage in September 2011. More info on Faïn and Kocik is available at: www.prosodicbody.org.

Judith Sánchez Ruíz was born and raised in Havana, Cuba and lives in New York. Her work is drawn to the exploration of the body’s raw and visceral movement. She pursues a choreography that deals with the radical transformation of qualities and textures in relation to body architectures and geometrical shapes. She has worked with Trisha Brown Dance Company, David Zambrano, Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara Malvacías and DD Dorvillier, among others. Ms. Sánchez has taught at: Moscow TsEKh Summer School, Russia; Sasha Waltz & Dancers, Berlin; Studio LaborGras, Berlin; Danish National School of Theater and Contemporary Dance, Copenhagen; Ménagerie de Verre Pédagogie, Paris; Marseille Objectif Danse, Marseilles; as well as a master class in Composition and TBDC Repertory at the Chicago College, and TBDC Repertory at CPR, NYC. She was one of Dance Magazine’s 25 dancers to watch in 2010. She was a 2003-04 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and is currently a 2011 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. www.Judithsanchezruiz.com

Shelley Senter has been involved with experimental and post-modern dance for 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 the technique to the performing body and mind for nearly two decades.

Vicky Shick is an independent dancer and choreographer and 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 NYC-based choreographers. She received “Bessies” for performance (1985) and choreography (2003), and has shown her own work since the mid-80s, including March 2011 at The Kitchen. Shick teaches regularly in Europe and the US, mostly for Movement Research, and for the last 10 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 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.

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, and the OtherShore Dance Company in New York. He has also taught at other national and international institutions. Stacy danced with the Trisha Brown Company (1997-06), and continues to be involved with the company through classes, workshops and lectures focused on Trisha Brown’s repertory as well as restaging several of her works. He was chosen as a 2008 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence in New York City and has shown work as part of Movement Research at the Judson Church. Most recently Stacy showed work as part of the Draftwork Series at Danspace Project in New York.

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 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.