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 has taught classes in the Alexander Technique at Balance Arts Center, CLASSCLASSCLASS, the Fieldston School and the American Dance Festival, and she also teaches privately. Recent performance work includes projects with Marina Abramović, Heather Kravas, Amanda Loulaki, Jillian Peña, Katy Pyle, robbinschilds and Kathy Westwater, and her own work has been presented throughout NYC and in California.  BA, Sarah Lawrence College; Co-founder, AUNTS; Co-curator, Movement Research Festival Spring 2007: Reverence (Irreverence); Program and Event Manager, Movement Research; Artistic Director, Rockbridge Artist Exchange. www.rebeccakelleybrooks.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

Barbara Dilley has been investigating the interface between art-making and mind-training at Naropa University since 1974. Her lineage includes traditional and innovative dance and art practices of the late 20th century in NYC (ballet, Cunningham, Judson Dance Theater, the Grand Union, and Natural History of the American Dancer) and the ancient practices of mindfulness and awareness taught by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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. He has gained international exposure with the production of over 30 pieces including solo shows in the United States and abroad. He has taught at Barnard College, New York University, Yale University, and TsEKh Summer Dance School in Moscow. Recent honors include being named a 2009 Movement Research Artist-In-Residence, a Martha Duffy Resident Artist at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (2009-10), and a commission from The Kitchen for the creation of Responsible Ballet and What We Need Is a Bench to Put Books On (2010).

Joanna Kotze has been dancing in New York since 1998, creating work since 2004 and teaching since 2007. She has shown work at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, DNA, the 92nd Street Y, WAXworks and Soho20 Gallery's Savior Faire Fall 2010 Performance Series. Joanna was selected in 2011 to be a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey’s New Directions Choreography Lab. 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 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 (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.

Mariangela Lopez is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer from Caracas, Venezuela. Since 2001 her pieces have been presented in Venezuela, Mexico, France, Boston and multiple venues in New York City such as Williamsburg Art Nexus, Dixon Place, Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Dance New Amsterdam, Tisch School of the Arts and MonkeyTown, among others. Lopez has performed and collaborated with many inspiring artists such as Peter Greenaway, Jennifer Monson, Luis Lara Malvacías, Wax Factory, Nathalie Broizat, and Melanie Maar, among others. Mariangela has been teaching movement-based classes since 2001 in different venues and communities in NYC and abroad. Currently she is on faculty at the Harkness Dance Center, 92nd Street Y and at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. She was a 2009 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

Justine Lynch is a dance artist and teacher. She practices Five Element acupuncture and Zero Balancing in NYC. She currently teaches a class called Somatic Alchemy that merges alchemy and dance. She has taught with CLASSCLASSCLASS, an artist-run teaching series. Her classes are influenced by her training in Klein Technique (1989-2000), performing as a member of Dance by Neil Greenberg (1991-2006), training in alchemical acupuncture (2002-present) and by her performance and choreographic work to the present.

Barbara Mahler is a widely respected choreographer/performer/teacher, active in the development of post-modern dance technique. She has traveled 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, she taught at the Susan Klein School of Dance 1983-2004 and then became 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, 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 2000-01 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, a collaborative dance artist, is inspired by working with the collectives Lower Left (www.lowerleft.org) and projectLIMB (www.projectlimb.net). She is deeply influenced by her relationships with Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Barbara Dilley, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, their new daughter, and many wonderful others. A movement educator for over fifteen years, Margaret practices and teaches Contact Improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, and other techniques in various locations, including Marymount Manhattan and Manhattanville Colleges. With Lower Left, she facilitates programs such as “March 2 Marfa,” an annual dance lab. She received her MFA from the Hollins University/ADF low residency program in 2011.

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 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 a long list of many distinguished artists. She is a repetiteur of the seminal work of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, and she is a member of LOWER LEFT and NON-FICTION artist collectives. An internationally renowned teacher of the Alexander Technique, her work is known for its influence in multiple artistic disciplines.

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.

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.