Future of CI Day 2

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Day 2 – 24 April Saturday

Session I

6am-9am PDT/9am-12noon EDT/3-6pm CEST/9pm-12midnight UTC+8/10pm-1am JST

TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4

Room A

Room B

Room C

9:00-9:30 AM

Panel – CI with families and young people
Faye Lim, Priyanka Barua (Singapore, India)
KW: Family

Lecture/Discussion – A W-Archive of Contact Improvisation.

An attempt at anArchiving Contact & its fugitive undercurrents.
Emma Bigé, Dieter Heitkamp, Defne Erdur (France, Germany, Turkey)
KW: wild, Wyrd, wRong, wayward, wacky, Warrior, who?, whiteness, we, Whales, water

Movement Workshop – Fluidifying
Dasha Sedova and Liselotte Singer (Russia, Germany)
KW: Pandemic, Online

9:30-10:00AM

10:00-10:30 AM

Lecture – CI spaces as a French mixed-race woman in Rabat, Berlin and Paris
Myriam Konaté (France)
English and French with translation

KW: Race, Context

Facilitated Conversation – Ethics and logistics of rentering CI During a Waning Pandemic
Loren Groenendaal (USA)
KW: Pandemic

– not recorded –

10:30-11:00 AM

Conversation/Movement Workshop – Body as Home and the Roots of White Supremacy
Consent in Contact in Context Study Group (International)
KW: Race, Colonialism, Theory

Pre-reading recommended, see description

11:00-11:30 AM

Panel – Neurodiversity and CI
Sarah Jones, Kathleen Rea and Jen Roy (Canada)
KW: Neurodiversity

Movement Workshop – Over under and around the Underscore
Jenny Döll (Germany)
KW: Underscore, Online

11:30 AM – 12:00 N

Session II

11am-2pm PDT/2-5pm EDT/8-11pm CEST/2-5am UTC+8/3-6am JST

TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4

Room A

Room B

Room C

2:00-5:00 PM

Recognizing Whiteness

Mark Messer, Joanna Fitzrick, JC Bitonti, Colleen Roche, Kellyn Jackson

(Canada, USA)

– not recorded –

A Black, Indigenous, and /or Person of Color (BIPOC) affinity CI connection space
Andrew Suseno (USA)

– not recorded –

Allyship in Action

Leslie Heydon and Kathleen Rea (Canada)

– not recorded –

Session III

 5-8pm PDT/8-11pm EDT/2-5am CEST/8-11am UTC+8/9am-12noon JST

TIMES IN EDT/UTC-4

Room A

Room B

Room C

8:00-8:30 PM

Lecture – Abandoning ‘The Natural Body’ in CI to Move into an Equitable Future
Robin Prichard (USA)
KW: Equity

Movement Workshop- Systemic racism and CI
Leslie Heydon (Canada)
KW: Race, White Supremacy

Movement Workshop – Solo-partnering and Other Imaginative Supports
Lailye Weidman (USA)
KW: New forms, Pandemic

8:30-9:00 PM

9:00-9:30 PM

Panel – Reciprocity, Empathy, Compassion and Conflict: Remembering the Future
Lauren Tietz, Nóra Hajós, Kan Yan, Ryuta Iwashita (USA)
KW: Histories, Healing, Dreaming, Futurity

Facilitated Conversation – Climate Change and CI; Connection and Commitment for Positive Change
Loren Groenendaal (USA)
KW: Climate

– not recorded –

Movement Workshop – Contacting with warm self regard
Lalu Simcik (USA)
KW: Healing, Witnessing

9:30-10:00 PM

10:00-10:30 PM

Facilitated Conversation – If Touch Isn’t Part of the Class, What Do Our Lesson Plans Emphasize?
Sue Lauther (USA)
KW: Teaching

Participants requested to prepare materials, see description

– not recorded –

Lecture/Movement Workshop- Symbiotic Score Talk-through
Yuenjie Maru (Hong Kong)
English, Cantonese and Mandarin

with translation

KW: Danceability, Inclusive practice

Lecture/Movement Workshop – Virtual CI: Experiential in the Now, and Looking into the Future
Naomi Bennett and Jeff Doff (USA)
KW: Touch, Pandemic, Long-distance, Tech, AR, VR

10:30-11:00 PM

KW = Keywords

Saturday, Session 1

CI with families and young children
F
aye Lim and Priyanka Barua, Singapore, India
Panel Discussion, English
Keywords: Family, Consent, Body awareness
Room A: 9:00am – 9:55am

Faye Lim and Priyanka Barua share a panel, on the practice of contact improvisation with children and families. They address notions of family within their artistic and cultural settings and the negotiations of desire, play and consent. 

Faye Lim is a dance artist whose choreography and direction (for performance and for camera), collaborations and commissions have been presented in schools, community places, public spaces, stages, galleries, and exhibitions in Singapore and internationally. As co-director of Derring-Do Dance, she makes body-based artworks and programmes, eg. Body Smarts Through Movement Arts and Rolypoly Family, for diverse children and their families. She has facilitated and taught dance improvisation and contact improvisation to adults, children, families and college students. Her training and experience span the fields of the arts, education, non-profit impact research and sexuality education consulting. 

Priyanka is an Indian Artist & Entrepreneur who juggles between the role of Teacher, Performer and Organiser. Currently, managing her dance & art school (Flow School of Dance & Arts) and working as a regular dance Faculty for a school in India. She has been teaching CI to adults in India 2016 Onwards. In 2018, she  started curating workshops for children and parents. Hence, researching and diversifying her work as the time and need is changing.

A W-Archive of Contact Improvisation. An attempt at anArchiving Contact & its fugitive undercurrents
Defne Erdur, Emma Bigé, Dieter Heitkamp, France, Germany, Turkey
Lecture and Discussion, English
Keywords: wild, Wyrd, wRong, wayward, wacky, Warrior, who?, whiteness, we, Whales, water
Room B: 9:00am – 10:25am

The WACI was constituted as part of a larger project for a Global AnArchive of Contact Improvisation, by Nancy Stark Smith, Dieter Heitkamp, Emma Bigé and Defne Erdur. After the passing of Nancy Stark Smith and the full-digitization of CQ’s archive, Dieter, Emma and Defne were left orphans, & also wondering: what kind of archive would two queerdos from Germany and France and one Turkish woman living in Europe make if they were to retrace their lineages in the practice of Contact Improvisation? At a moment of global turmoil, in the midst of the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police movements, it became urgent to celebrate the runaway and fugitive tendencies that have been a motor in Contact Improvisation’s development. And so instead of starting Global, the anarchive decided to start in the minor, and celebrate the part of Contact Improvisation histories that have presented themselves as insurgent and that have offered tools for countering hegemonies of all sorts. We hope this first stone in the Archive of the Wrong Contacts will open new ways for sustaining all sorts of mischiefs.
 

Fluidifying
Dasha Sedova and Liselotte Singer, Russia, Germany

Movement, English
Keywords: Pandemic, Online
Room C: 9:00am – 9:55am

The session we will offer for the Future of CI is centered around getting in touch with ourselves and our habitual surroundings, through methods of yogic breathing and sensitive scanning of inner and outer spaces that brings us into movement. With this practice we aim to tap into the positive potential of slowing down while staying actively engaged in the body and its field of touch.

Dasha and Liselotte first met during the SMASH (now ROAR) program in Berlin in 2016. Ever since they have been working together researching and teaching hands-on practices into dance improvisation. In their respective work, Dasha is focusing on possibilities of movement in urban spaces and ecstatic practices while Liselotte is bringing the HANDS IN research into an academic context and working collaboratively on performance projects.
 

Mapping personal experiences in CI spaces as a French mixed-race woman in Rabat, Berlin and Paris: perceptions, sensations and emotions
Myriam Konaté, France

Lecture, Anglais et Français/English and French with translation
Keywords: Race, Context
Room A: 10:00am – 10:55am

What is the experience of the contact improvisation spaces as a French mixed-race woman in Rabat, Berlin and Paris? Through a personal analysis, Myriam Konaté will testimony on her encounter with contact improvisation and open a debate on her difficulties to find a place in those spaces.

Myriam Konaté is a 24-year-old woman. She studied social sciences and public policies at Sciences PoParis. She discovered contact improvisation in Morocco in 2017 with Lisa Dali. She practices contemporary dance and yoga. She aims to explore the memories, identities and conflicts of the body.
 

Ethics and logistics of rentering CI During a Waning Pandemic
Loren Groenendaal, USA
Facilitated Conversation, English
Keywords: Pandemic
Room C: 10:00am – 10:55am

Connecting with our conscious, subconscious and somatic, social and kinesthetic intelligences, we will consider our desires and fears surrounding returing to CI during a waning pandemic. We will delve into both logistical and ethical questions on how to “open up” to practice CI. We may find some answers, but we will certainly have more pointed questions for our individual selves and sub-communities to consider. Bring something to write with and on, analog pen and paper is preferred.

Loren Groenendaal, CMA, MFA, BA, is a dance artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA, USA (Lenape land), regularly teaching Contact Improvisation classes, facilitating jams and Underscores. Loren draws on CI and its principles in choreography and works to highlight adaptation, freedom, empathy, support, liveliness, curiosity and connection.
 

Body as Home and the Roots of White Supremacy
Consent in Contact in Context Study Group, International

Conversation and Movement, English
Keywords: Race, Colonialism, Theory
Room B: 10:30am – 11:55am

You Come, We’ll Show You What We Do. This cycle, we are focusing on racism and (post?)colonialism. In this session, we will juxtapose a text that critically deals with contact improvisation with a podcast on the global history of white supremacy. We will mostly talk but also move a little. We want to showcase our approach to sociopolitical consciousness-raising in the contact improvisation world. Our idea is to open with a capsule history of the group, say some words about our conflict and care team, then do a pared-down version of our standard format. This usually includes an opening, two or three rounds of breakout groups, each usually dedicated to one of the materials up for discussion, a movement segment somewhere in the middle and a closing where the whole group is together at the end. For this session we are considering having only one round of breakout groups. We plan to use two of the three materials that were up for discussion at our session in January 2021, namely Nhu Nguyen’s short text Body as Home and a 30 minute podcast called The Roots of White Supremacy.

Our group started in June 2020. We are in the Americas, Europe, North Africa and Asia. We meet monthly and use English. In our first cycle, we juxtaposed material on contact and consent with socialist feminist analyses of care and sexuality. This cycle, we are focusing on racism and (post?)colonialism.

Recommended pre-reading: Dear participants, for this session we would like you to have read “Body as Home” by Nhu Nguyen – a 7 minute read. A pdf is also available in the CCC@FoCI cloud space. Please also listen to the 30 minute podcast “The Roots of White Supremacy” with Richard Drayton in advace of the session. A “study aid”, that is, a text with key statements, terms and names, texts and scholars mentioned in that podcast, is also available in the CCC@FoCI cloud space. If you don’t get through everything, you are still very welcome to participate! But please do your best to come prepared. 🙂 Your CCC @ FoCI facilitators.
 

Neurodiversity and CI
Sarah Jones, Kathleen Rea, and Jen Roy, Canada
Panel Discussion, English
Keywords: Neurodiversity
Room A: 11:00am – 11:55am

In this panel discussion on Neurodiversity in Contact Improvisation we are going to explore some of the challenges that neuro-a-typical dancers experience including acoustic accessibility and CI social norms of interacting. We will discuss how making adjustments will benefit all dancers and make CI communities richer through diversity.

Sarah Jones is a Contact Improvisation dancer, teacher and performer. She is the current Organizer for the Sunday Contact Jam in Toronto, a Safety Committee member for the jam and as a teacher has taught many classes at the Sunday and Wednesday Contact Jams in Toronto. Her first short film ‘Contested Landscapes’ won the Audience Choice Award at the Contact Dance International Film Festival (CDIFF) in 2017. She has Sensory Processing Sensitivity, a trait involving an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli. As a result her dance is affected in both positive and negative ways.

Kathleen Rea decided to devote her career to contact improvisation (CI) when she fell in love with the form 21 years ago. Through her company REAson d’etre dance she produces CI dance-jams, film-festivals, and productions. Kathleen has autism and a learning disability that results in writing taking 8 times longer than average. Despite these struggles, she loves writing and is a published author (“The Healing Dance”). She has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts and a passion for functional movement.

Jen Roy is a multiply disabled and mad-identified dancer and artist. They would like to note that their participation in this panel is made possible by the event being remote this year, as CI conferences such as these are typically inaccessible to them in a variety of ways. Jen’s work considers questions such as: what happens when competing access needs arise in CI jams, classes and festivals working to become more inclusive? What do our language choices and identity descriptors (neuro-a-typical, neuro diverse, differently-abled, disabled, etc.) say about the cultures we have and the ones we want to create within our CI communities? And: what impact do these kinds of cultural shifts have on so-called “neurotypicals”? 

Over under and around the Underscore
Jenny Döll, Germany

Movement and Conversation, English
Keywords: Underscore, Online
Room C: 11:00am – 11:55am

We use the spirit of the Underscore and some of its phases to explore different ways of moving/being/becoming with each other. How can we balance out our individuality with being part of a (virtual) community? How do we negotiate distance, closeness, differences and contradictions within ourselves and via screens?

Jenny Döll is a dancer, performer and teacher. She loves CI since she came across it in 2002 and though questioning the form she repeatedly renews her fascination with it. In 2019 she joined Nita Little’s Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication. She’s neurodivergent, critical, curious, and stubborn.

Saturday, Session 2


A Black, Indigenous, and/or Person of Color (BIPOC) affinity CI connection space 
Andrew Suseno, USA

Movement and Conversation, English
Room B: 2:00pm – 4:55pm

This Black and Indigenous, and/or Person of Color (which means anyone who is not white) virtual affinity space is for CI practitioners who experience racial discrimination because they are not white. We will mourn, celebrate and build networks all together and in smaller groups through improvisation and dialogue. Please join us for a special opportunity to connect Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow voices from across the globe in a space outside of the white gaze. This is a space for healing, processing and playing. The majority of this session will not be recorded. A break will be taken at the halfway mark.

Andrew Suseno is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and is certified in the Feldenkrais Method and Laban Movement Analysis. Andrew is a dancer and activist whose passion for anti-racist change feeds his creation of the form Parcon Resilience – a site-specific somatic improvisational form that interweaves with anti-oppressive process and community building.
 

Recognizing Whiteness

Mark Messer, Joanna Fitzrick, JC Bitonti, Colleen Roche, Kellyn Jackson, USA
Room A: 2:00pm – 4:55pm  

This is a virtual space for people who identify as white, are white-bodied, white-positioned, or white-passing.

We will collaborate to uncover dynamics of whiteness that we embody as individuals, in organizations, and culturally. We will take time to attend to our bodies in movement in relation to whiteness, to pause, to reflect, and to dialogue. We will work on “our stuff” without burdening people of color to do it. 

Allyship in Action
Leslie Heydon and Kathleen Rea, Canada

Room C: 2:00pm – 4:55pm

Do you want to learn some tools and gain skills when facing individuals denying racism?

Leslie and Kathleen will lead this workshop using David Campt’s workbook. They incorporate CI perspectives including how racism and other isms are frequently denied in CI spaces.

This method is designed to foster the deep reflective internal work that is needed to have empathetic conversations without blaming or shaming. For this workshop, some experience and practice in managing discomfort that can arise when facing how we are embedded in systemic oppression is needed. In the words of David A Campt, “The core approach of… [this work] … is that white allies should try and engage people who deny -isms and listen to them without judgement, share stories that build trust and try to expand their sense of how the isms work through stories, data or useful concepts … this empathetic listening approach is in sharp contrast to the way many racial justice advocates approach conversations about race with people who are not on board with their point of view.”

This workshop will include roleplay in breakout rooms to gain practical experience of usin the method.

Although David Campt’s work is designed to teach white people how to talk with other white people who deny racism, this method can be used with many forms of oppression, (-isms) for this reason, all conference attendees are invited to the workshop. The workshop notes can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/18crL-07d-AZt9OvveXm1ZF7r9Xx88wdhVFS-FL38oi8/edit?usp=sharing

Leslie Heydon has a BA from the University of Toronto in Psychology and Fine Arts and worked as an Expressive Arts Therapist in addictions with women and Black youth. Leslie began CI in 2016. She facilitates a BIPOC jam, ‘The White Ally Toolkit’ by David A. Campt and is on the Toronto Sunday Jam Safety Committee.

Kathleen Rea decided to devote her career to contact improvisation (CI) when she fell in love with the form 21 years ago. Through her company REAson d’etre dance she produces CI dance-jams, film-festivals, and productions. Kathleen has autism and a learning disability that results in writing taking 8 times longer than average. Despite these struggles, she loves writing and is a published author (“The Healing Dance”). She has a master’s degree in Expressive Arts and a passion for functional movement.

Saturday, Session 3

Abandoning ‘The Natural Body’ in CI to Move into an Equitable Future
Robin Prichard, USA

Lecture, English
Keywords: Equity
Room A: 8:00pm – 8:55pm

C.I. has inherited the idea of the body as pre-cultural and universal, but these ideas are infused with the racist/sexist/heteronormative ideas of early 20th century somatic pioneers. This interactive lecture argues that C.I. needs to abandon the assumptions of “the natural body” in order to move into an inclusive and equitable future.

Robin Prichard is an artist and scholar with a particular interest in who/what gets erased from dance practice and scholarship. Her choreographic and research interests include indigenous dance, increasing diversity in dance, and advancing subjectivity of dancers on stage and in training.
 

Systemic Racism and CI
Leslie Heydon, Canada
Lecture, Movement and Discussion, English
Keywords: Race, White Supremacy
Room B: 8:00pm – 8:55pm

A short lecture, experiential movement activities, and group discussion investigating:
– Common myths in CI perpetuating systemic racism.
– Moving from ‘diagnosing’ racism into understanding white supremacy in CI.
– Sitting with discomfort within white supremacy.

Leslie Heydon has a BA from the University of Toronto in Psychology and Fine Arts and worked as an Expressive Arts Therapist in addictions with women and Black youth. Leslie began CI in 2016. She facilitates a BIPOC jam, ‘The White Ally Toolkit’ by David A. Campt and is on the Toronto Sunday Jam Safety Committee.
 

Solo-partnering and Other Imaginative Supports
Lailye Weidman, USA

Movement, English
Keywords: New forms, Pandemic
Room C: 8:00pm – 8:55pm

When we dance solo, are we just one body or a multiplicity? Who or what dances with us, and how does our body carry influences and residues? Solo-partnering practice may feed us in times of physical distance and contribute toward more options for moving alone and together in our futures.

Lailye Weidman is a choreographer based in Western MA, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire College, and a 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Choreography. She incorporates dance, somatics, and mindfulness into her teaching with a focus on the politics of movement and embodied action. Her work has been shown in venues on both coasts, the Midwest, and Europe, and she has worked independently and collectively to produce dance events, residencies, and festivals in New England.
 

Reciprocity, Empathy, Compassion and Conflict: Remembering the Future
Lauren Tietz, Nóra Hajós, Kan Yan, Ryuta (Dutah) Iwashita, USA
Panel Discussion, English
Keywords: Histories, Healing, Dreaming, Futurity
Room A: 9:00pm – 9:55pm

Dreaming is not productive in an economy such as ours, considered a waste of time, an indulgence, an inefficient non-linear approach. But what if it is an essential way forward? The illogical space of dreams, the dormancy of winter, the nonverbal languages of touch, movement and rest – how do these relics relate to the current human/climate collapse?

Lauren Tietz is a dancer, teacher, interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and Craniosacral Therapist. Her collaborations have spanned geographies from bridges in Austin, to New Mexico forests, Turkish caves to the Rio Grande along the Texas/Mexico border and more. Influenced by the phenomena of the senses, reflexes and myriad survival methods humans employ in response to danger, safety and poetics she views the body as personal, cultural and planetary archive. Where are the sites of amnesia? What will be lost, remembered, invoked? Her research (and work with trauma resolution) is rooted in accessing resources that arise from seen and unseen forces.

Nóra Hajós, dancer, choreographer, visual artist. Her choices are made by her deep interest in search of authenticity in dance. As an improvisational performer she is interested in sensation-rooted-movement-explorations, action painting, juxtaposition in art making and in-the-moment improvisation with words, voices, movement and paint. For the past 26 years, she has been exploring, teaching and performing dance improvisation. Nóra studied in-depth with Steve Paxton (the originator of contact improvisation), Lisa Nelson (tuning score), Amy and Arny Mindell (process oriented psychology), Simone Forti (logomotion). Nóra has created and performed her solo improvisations in the USA and Europe.  She toured with Simone Forti, dancing Logomotion. She has also performed with, Kossuth&Liszt prize-awarded composer/pianist, Gyorgy Szabados a Duet Improvisation Performance Series in Hungary. She has collaborated with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, K. J. Holmes, Karen Nelson, Ray Chung, Keith Hennessey, Daniel Lepkopf and many others.

Climate Change and CI Connection and Commitment for Positive Change
Loren Groenendaal, USA
Facilitated Conversation, English
Keywords: Climate
Room B: 9:00pm – 9:55pm

What capacity do we have to make change? How can contact improvisers use their embodied knowledge of commitment, connection and interconnectivity to reduce global warming in how we live our everyday lives and/or take action out of the studio? How can contact improvisers have more positive and less negative impacts in regards to global climate change in how we put on events? Bring something to write with and on, analog paper and pen is preferred.

Loren Groenendaal, CMA, MFA, BA, is a dance artist and educator based in Philadelphia, PA, USA (Lenape land), regularly teaching Contact Improvisation classes, facilitating jams and Underscores. Loren draws on CI and its principles in choreography and works to highlight adaptation, freedom, empathy, support, liveliness, curiosity and connection.
 

Contacting with warm self-regard
Lalu Simcik, USA

Movement, English
Keywords: Healing, Witnessing
Room C: 9:00pm – 9:55pm

Preverbal healing with internal warm self regard and resonating self-witness while contacting each other.

Lalu Simcik is a Certified Axis Syllabus Teacher, Sharing and Offerings based upon a year of study with Suprapto Suryodharmo, Java, Indonesia.
 

If Touch isn’t part of the class, what do our lesson plans emphasize?
Sue Lauther, USA
Facilitated Conversation, English
Keywords: Teaching
Room A: 10:00pm – 10:55pm

If Touch Isn’t Part of the Class, What Do Our Lesson Plans Emphasize? A discussion, and sharing samples of our lesson plans, lead by Sue Lauther During a year of COVID-19, how do we teach techniques of Contact Improvisation online? When our students have no access to each other live in a studio, what do we choose to present to and encourage in our students? Will some of these techniques remain when we gather together again? Please bring some of your examples from the classes you have taught remotely – both successful exercises, and those that failed, can be useful to unpack.

Teaching for Colorado College and Ormao Dance Company, Sue Lauther (MFA UofIllinois) served as a teacher, performer, technical theater/producer and choreographer around the world. Sue uses class as a vehicle to help students explore, expand, and clarify their option and express physical intentions clearly. CI’s gifts: metaphors, accuracy, sensation, connection.
 

Symbiotic Score Talk-through
Yuenjie Maru, Hong Kong

Lecture, English with Cantonese and Mandarin
Keywords: Danceability, Inclusive practice
Room B: 10:00pm – 10:55pm

Symbiotic Score Talk-through – Symbiotic Score is a dance score developed by DanceAbility teacher yuenjie MARU, which based on DanceAbility Method and inspired by the Underscore. The score aims at including ALL different abilities to dance consciously, autonomously, freely and naturally. Flower+Net+Clock=Circle of “=” is the formula of the score.

yuenjie MARU (Hong Kong) is an inclusive dance facilitator, a CI practitioner, a live performance artist and a dancing sketcher. He got the DanceAbility Teacher Certification in 2012 and ContaKids Teacher Certification in 2017. He was a member of the Long Dance 2018, a research project with Nancy Stark Smith.
 

Virtual CI: Experiential in the Now, and Looking into the Future
Naomi Bennett and Jeff Doff, USA

Movement and Lecture, English
Keywords: Touch, Pandemic, Long-distance, Tech, AR, VR
Room C: 10:00pm – 10:55pm

Together we will work through a series of interactive virtual exercises designed to engage physical awareness and sense perception. We will virtually touch and dance together through our screens. Then we’ll look into the technology-assisted future of virtual contact and discuss our experiences, hopes, and dreams.

Naomi Bennett, PhD, MFA, is a performance maker, scholar, and contact improv practitioner based in Baton Rouge, LA USA. Her work explores embodied connections and sensations of touch via computer-mediated technology. During the pandemic, she has continued to practice CI by exploring the possibilities of physical connection and touch in Zoom Space.

Jeff Doff has been dancing contact improvisation for over 20 years. Jeff worked in consumer product development for 15 years and is currently the Head of Partnerships for Ompractice.com, which offers inclusive live virtual yoga & wellness classes to individuals & employees of companies around the world.

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