First NameLast NamePreferred PronounWhere will you be coming from?When did you discover CI?How often do you practice CI?Your favorite teachers and some CI workshops/trainings you enjoyedWhat can you see as your desired outcome?
Please tell us what would you like to learn.		 Which Workshop Are You Registering For?
DenaHolperthey/themOakland2021WeeklyI started learning CI with Rene Alvarez and love their teaching style. I’ve been attending contact classes & jams via Interkinected & Thursday jam at Finnish Hall in Berkeley for the past three years but haven’t taken a contact intensive workshop before.I’d like to expand my contact moves knowledge, to learn different ways to flow with people, to lift, to get out of a lift in different ways.
I also want to know more about the form and rules/language/methodology of contact improv so that I can practice it more intentionally.		ARC Weekend Workshop
YutingYinthey.them/she/herDavisthree years agotwice a weeknot sure. I have not been to many.I’d like to learn to become aware of more possibilities while listening to what is happening at present, and become more skillful at offering things.weekend workshop
CynthiaBoothShe/herSacramentoIn collegeNot often unfortunatelyChris AikenMore tools.Weekend
AvaMaagthey/sheOakland20131-4x weeklyShira Yaziv – Spiral Camp and weekly classes, Nita Little – Relational Intelligence, Ezra LeBank – Cloud Tectonics, Carmen Serber – Potent Pelvis, Scott WellsDancing as an ensemble with attention to composition, responsibly courting disorientationweekend workshop
EricDouglasHe/HimSan Diego20174-5 intensives / year, average 1 jam / weekAnjelika Doniy, Olivia Shaffer, Manuel Matsya are some of my favourite teachers. I have also taken a couple workshops with Andrew in Vancouver and Salt Spring.

I’ve been to around 20 festivals on salt spring island, LBCI, San Pancho CI festival, I’ve danced regularly at Edam dance.		– Release: finding layers of unnecessary tension I hold while dancing
– Solo practice: increasing available pathways in my solo dance. Most of my dance practice has been exploring and listening to gravity as the basis for movement. I desire finding more range in my solo dance.
– Modelling master teachers: I teach classes and workshops in Nelson BC. A large focus of my time at workshops is learning from the teaching styles and sequencing of skilled CI teachers.		ARC
DanSchwartzheOakland2023couple of times a weekEzra LeBank Cloud TectonicsRolls, lifts and elegant moves after others initiation2 day March 16th & 17th
NikuDhillonHe/HimCalgary, AB11 years agoWeekly, with 8 workshops/festivals in the past year.Favourite teachers: Martin Keogh, Leilani Weis, and Alicia Grayson.

This year, I have been enjoying CI events on salt spring island (including one with Andrew Hardwood), Marcus Van Durens workshop in Berkeley, the long beach festival, and san pancho (with Nita Little).		I’m interested in learning, understanding, and exploring what these teachers have to offer. I’d like to follow the threads of curiosity that emerge from their teaching into my practice.Both the weekend and 5 day, please. March. 16th -22nd.
CynthiaBoothShe/herSacramentoIn collegeNot often unfortunatelyChris AikenMore tools.Weekend
SchuylerIngleHe/himOakland2014On and off sometime quite frequently sometimes vary infrequentLiz Roman, Tom Weksler, Scott Wells, Shira, Nita Little, Berkeley Summer Jam, Many fantastic drop in teachers, all the wonderful people I have danced with I have learned fromI am interested in feeling the synergy of movement with my partner, to be in tuned with then but not anticipating, moving slowly and building momentum,The weekend workshop
colelehmantheyBerkeley20162-3 times a weekRay Chung’s workshop in Nevada City Oct 2023. CALCITE 2023. Moab jams with classes 2017/18/19I’m interested in learning from CI elders who have been central to teaching and developing the form for a long time.Weekend workshop
VeronikaKachaSheSF2 years agoOnce every 2 -3 weeksJane that teaches in LATo become more comfortable in the floorWeekend
BethGallovicshe/herBoulder, COJanuary 2018weeklyAlicia Grayson (home teacher in Boulder), Nita Little, Ezra LeBank, all workshops at recent Long Beach CI fest, teachers from 2 Moab Jams 2018 and 2019 (can’t remember names)Deeper attunement and ways of accessing more creativity in my dance (what gets in the way of that?) Looking at what keeps me perhaps too much in familiar patterns, what keeps me from taking “risks”Resiliency and Resourcefulness in Contact Improvisation weekend workshop, and Acuity, Readiness, Compositional Awareness In Contact Improvisation 5-day workshop and
RebeccaJanovicSheBerkeley2017Multiple times a weekJurij Konjar loved his 3 week winter term workshop at Oberlin. Appreciated being part of Nancy’s last January workshopFor the last several months I have been practicing contact in jam settings but not classes. I am excited to learn with teachers who teach largely via principles and are not so heavy on demonstrating and repeating technique/form. I am eager to enter dances/dancing through the lens of simple and specific prompts which open up the dancing possibilities but don’t overly define them.5 day
JaniceChenShe herBerkeley1.5 years agoVaries, once a week to once a month depending on my scheduleMegan Lowe, Nita Little, Shira Yaziv, Ezra LeBank, Scott Wells, Rene AlvarezAttunement, pathways, more than one partner dance,3/16-3/17 weekend
SophiaMaagshe/theySan FranciscoJanuary 20232-3 times/weekKristin can Loon, Arwen Wilder, Shira Yaziv, Miriam Wolodarksi
Spiral Camp (Shira Yaziv and Sebastian Grubb), Pathways and Principles (Nuria Bosworth and Marcus van Duren)		I’m really excited to deepen my practice of CI, right now I’m especially wanting to become more comfortable falling, and of course always want to practice listening and moving from that (rather than just following, which I often find I do).Resiliency and Resourcefulness in Contact Improvisation
ZevBennettHimBerkeleyMany years ago through my modern dance training! And then through a very close friendAbout 3 times a week.I’ve loved Scott Wells’s teaching. I’ve also greatly enjoyed axis syllabus training as well One if my most influential experiences on my improvisational dance came in a two week training with the nomad dance troupe in Italy.I would love to have some deep practice is sensing and reacting to the actual information of the dance. While at the same time learning what can be available and then letting the dance choose what happens.March 16-17 workshop
BrianaSteelsheNevada City2 years agovery oftenRay Chung, Alisha Grayson, Nita Little, Irene Sposetti, Ezra LeBank. I have taken over 50 days worth of intensives in the past year and a half (obsessed) I really enjoyed the 12 day Ray Chung workshop in long beach last monthDeeper relationship with the form, self, others, the floor, the world in general. Excited to study with these elders in the form. I just want to be a better dancer/humanBoth
mindyzaremShe/theyA few blocks awayWhen I was 17, at U of MN, with Chris AikenWeeklyYou guys are at the top!Being in practice is what I wish to learn from…dedicating myself for a series of days!?
BrianaSteelsheNevada City2 years agovery oftenRay Chung, Alisha Grayson, Nita Little, Irene Sposetti, Ezra LeBank. I have taken over 50 days worth of intensives in the past year and a half (obsessed) I really enjoyed the 12 day Ray Chung workshop in long beach last monthDeeper relationship with the form, self, others, the floor, the world in general. Excited to study with these elders in the form. I just want to be a better dancer/humanBoth
taishapaggettthey/\sheRiverside, CA2 + decades agoreturning to 2-3x monthly practice after a multi-yearlong break and injuriesI had my first workshop with Nita Little recently, Daniel Halkin, Jeff Wallace, and numerous other folx from the Chicago CI community, Kirstie Simson… The classes I’ve taken with Chris Aiken over the years. What I appreciate from these teachers is how/when they contextualize CI as a philosophical blueprint for embodied relational experience as much as a series of skills to be mastered.To deepen my practice and find my way through some physical obstacles; In the long run, to return to teaching CI again, for my institution and for the development of BIPOC and queer-centered CI spaces.Aiken, Chung and Harwood weekend + weeklong workshops 3/16-22
taishapaggettthey/\sheRiverside, CA2 + decades agoreturning to 2-3x monthly practice after a multi-yearlong break and injuriesI had my first workshop with Nita Little recently, Daniel Halkin, Jeff Wallace, and numerous other folx from the Chicago CI community, Kirstie Simson… The classes I’ve taken with Chris Aiken over the years. What I appreciate from these teachers is how/when they contextualize CI as a philosophical blueprint for embodied relational experience as much as a series of skills to be mastered.To deepen my practice and find my way through some physical obstacles; In the long run, to return to teaching CI again, for my institution and for the development of BIPOC and queer-centered CI spaces.Aiken, Chung and Harwood weekend + weeklong workshops 3/16-22
LauraCowie-HaskellThey/themBerkeley2 years ago3 times a weekThis 5 day workshop last year! These teachers!To fully inhabit my improvisational body. Doing less. To be super clear and legible. To understand better what the room needsWeekend
meitalyanivthey/themRiverside, CA3 years agoweeklytaisha paggett
Nita Little
KJ Holmes
Ezra LeBank		embodiment, presence, body listeningweekend
GregoryBonaguraHe/himBerkeley5 years ago when I started to going to ecstatic dance in Humbokrt county.DailyI have learned a lot from some the local teachers here in Berkeley like Rene, Marcus, And Mirium. In humboldt I spent a lot of time dancing with Leslie CastellanoI’m not really focused on the outcome as I am the process. I think the experience of dancing in this container will have possibilities I’m not even aware of in this moment.March 18-22
XiaoyiYanshe/herYellowknife, Canada2017WeeklyMark Young, Benno Voorham, Nora MariaI am interested in learning more techniques in weight sharing, the use of momentum, and falling. Dance with movers of different backgrounds5 day workshop
GregoryBonaguraHe/himBerkeley5 years ago when I started to going to ecstatic dance in Humbokrt county.DailyI have learned a lot from some the local teachers here in Berkeley like Rene, Marcus, And Mirium. In humboldt I spent a lot of time dancing with Leslie CastellanoI’m not really focused on the outcome as I am the process. I think the experience of dancing in this container will have possibilities I’m not even aware of in this moment.March 18-22
TusharGarghe/himSan Francisco5 years ago as a warmup in a contemporary release classLately, not at all as I am returning from an injury. I would like to get acquainted with CI again.Lizz Roman, Kristin Damrow, Sara Shelton Mann, Krista DeNio, Hope Mohr …Mostly just want to move with other bodies and get re-acquainted with CI.March 16th-17th
ShanaSturmshe/herOakland19891x/weekChris Mathias, Martin Keogh, Kathleen Hermsdorff, Scott Wells,Re-entering contact after a 20 year break. It’s all good! Regaining my comfort. and confidence and curiosity.March 16/17
LouisCaditz-Peckheberkeleystarted dancing after workshop w Ray and Andrew in 2019? 2018?sometimes weekly sometimes lesscarmen serbersome concrete skillsweekend with andrew ray chris
HannahHindleyShe/herSonoma CountyMy partner loves CI and I’ve been curiousI done a lot of partner dancing, and I’ve informally dabbled in CI and CI adjacent things with my partner, but this will be my first workshop.I’ve had wonderful teachers in Blues and swing, and I recently enjoyed attending a Brazilian Zouk workshopI’d love to tune into the heart of CI and really get a deeper sense for what it is and how to use my body in this way. I’m used to partner dancing and really enjoy being a follow, so I’d like to feel out other dynamics and ways of engaging with dance partners. I’d also like to learn attention and communication tools that I can bring to other dancefloors and to my partnership.The 2-day weekend workshop
AlessandraMarkusShe/herOakland10 years agoWeeklyAnjelika Donnyi
CI festival in Thailand, Goa, ARS 2023		Tools to teach
Embodiment		Week 5 days
AramoOlayaTheyDavis2008Several times a weekI want to the last workshop with them
I studied ci in Spain with cristiane boullosa and Diana Bonilla for ten years		I’d like to understand how these professionals developed their teaching in relation to the development of ci as a movement form, and also how they see contact beyond dance, as a physical, somatic, and political phenomenonThe intensive for people with experience in ci
AramoOlayaTheyDavis2008Several times a weekI want to the last workshop with them
I studied ci in Spain with cristiane boullosa and Diana Bonilla for ten years		I’d like to understand how these professionals developed their teaching in relation to the development of ci as a movement form, and also how they see contact beyond dance, as a physical, somatic, and political phenomenonThe intensive for people with experience in ci
AramoOlayaTheyDavis2008Several times a weekI want to the last workshop with them
I studied ci in Spain with cristiane boullosa and Diana Bonilla for ten years		I’d like to understand how these professionals developed their teaching in relation to the development of ci as a movement form, and also how they see contact beyond dance, as a physical, somatic, and political phenomenonThe intensive for people with experience in ci
JessVan garsseSheMarin5 years agoWeeklyI’ve loved every workshop I’ve done! I always get something from it.I’d like to learn to learn to fall better, so that I can better take care of myself, and therefore take more risks. I’d also like to become more skilled and confident at lifting and being lifted.Weekend