CURRENT TEACHERS

Shura Baryshnikov
Dancer | Actor | Educator

Alicia Grayson
Dance Improvisation

Bradley Teal Ellis
Dance Improvisation

Tim O'Donnell
Contact Improvisation

Sarah Konner
Dance Artist
Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and somatic movement educator—interested in somatics as expression and the innate intelligence in our bodies. Sarah teaches, practices and performs improvisation in New York and elsewhere, as well as creates dance-theater work with her collaborator Austin Selden and others. sarahandaustindance.com
PAST TEACHERS

Martin Keogh
Contact Improvisation

Brad Stoller
Contact Improvisation

K.J. Holmes
Dance Improvisation
K.J. HOLMES Brooklyn NY based dance artist/actor/singer/teacher. Travels nationally and internationally teaching/performing/creating: collaborate extensively with Julie Carr, Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson/Image Lab, Steve Paxton: performed with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Xavier Le Roy, Lance Gries, Mark Dendy, Melinda Ring, Karinne Keithley Syers: was cast in artist Matthew Barney’s film Redoubt and in performer/videographer Cristiane Bouger’s film The Quest for Joy; Collaborates with drummer Jeremy Carlstedt: in their Duet LIP (Vision Jazz Festivals, NY) teaches in NYC at NYU/ Experimental Theatre Wing, the Juilliard School and through Movement Research. A graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering©, William Esper Studio (Meisner acting with Terry Knickerbocker), and Satya Yoga, K.J. is studying to become an Ayurvedic nutritional consultant and continues to develop her dance/theater/installation HIC SVNT DRACONES

Neige Christenson
Contact Improvisation
Neige Christenson has been an avid Contact Improviser since the mid-eighties, as a devoted jam facilitator, teacher and performer. Her teaching encourages opening the improvisational mind and body to full presence and connection with self and other. She has an MA in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University, and has taught CI in Germany, Canada, California and throughout New England. Her writing on CI has appeared in Contact Quarterly and <Proximity> magazines.