Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing CI for the past 25 years. She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University and has been a guest artist at numerous universities. She teaches CI., yoga and pilates classes in Boulder, CO and regularly travels to Europe and around the US to teach. She has been a member of Tumblebones Contact Improvisation collective for over 8 years and is a core member of the Boulder Contact Lab. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and meditation are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She is a graduate of two professional training programs in Somatic Psychotherapy: Hakomi and Bodymind Somanautics and works individually with clients. She continues to delight in exploring and discovering new depths to the form and is particularly interested in the the mind/body relationship and the intersection of physics and expression. www.tumblebones.com |
Katarina Eriksson has been involved with improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with artists such as Ray Chung, Cathie Caraker, Karen Nelson, and as a member and co-founder of Swedish improvisation ensemble Floke. She teaches Contact Improvisation and other improvisational forms in Europe and the US, and since 2000 she curates the performance series Moment's Notice in Berkeley. Katarina's traditional dance background includes graduation from The Ballet Academy, Gothenburg and working at the Gothenburg State Theater and Opera as well as with numerous choreographers and dance companies in Sweden. Recent performance endeavors are; Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE, San Francisco, touring in Sweden, Germany, and England with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri, co-creating a site-specific dance piece with Siljeholm/Christophersen in Beirut, and a clown piece directed by Christina Lewis at The Arc, San Francisco. Katarina’s teaching supports collaboration, diversity of expression, and “beginner’s mind”. Her main guides in art making are vulnerability, musicality and deep play. |
Ralf Jaroschinski: Born in Southern Germany and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ralf graduated as a classical and modern dancer from the University of Music and Theater in Hannover, Germany, and then studied several contemporary dance and composition techniques in New York City on a stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service. He discovered contact improvisation for himself in 1994. From 1998 until 2002, he directed the dance company of the City Theater of Hildesheim, Germany, and included contact improvisation in the dancers' training and the creation of his works. He got commissioned to create choreographies for several German national ballet companies and dance universities – so far, he has created some 100 dance pieces which have been seen in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Facilitating contact improvisation classes and workshops more regularly since 2004, Ralf has taught at numerous festivals, universities, dance schools and studios in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has performed contact improvisation together with Nita Little, Ray Chung, Scott Wells, Ilka Szilagy, Benno Voorham, Felix Ruckert, Mirva Mäkinen, Brenton Cheng, Tim O’Donnell, Elio Scuderi, Andrew Wass, Rosemary Hannon, and Vitali Khononov among others. He has designed, produced and staged several contact improvisation scores and concerts, and he has trained the dancers of companies such as the Brazilian Curitiba Guaíra Ballet, the Swedish "GöteborgsOperans Danskompani", and the "Cullberg Baletten" in Stockholm in contact improvisation.
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