Faces Of CI

Live again from Towards CI50 Conference, we welcome Damla özçelik, our guest today and Contact Improvisation Facilitator from Turkey. We dive into Damla's experience with teaching Contact to the blind, to teenage girls as body-self-empowerment, consent in CI, and the fusion of tango-contact! For more of her work visit on Instagram @damlala and @ci_thailand ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca

This episode was recorded in the mountains of Chiang Dao, Thailand, at a mystical monastery. Together 35 contact dances lived by a hot springs Heaven for 10 days, for Part 2 of Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference. Our guests today are CI teachers and dear sweet friends, Francisco Borges (Portugal) and Geraldine Acevedo Espansa (Columbia) facilitators of Oceandance, water contact and Contact Improvisation in Koh Pha Ngan. We dive deep in this episode into the philosophy of ci, the water and nature body, freedom from rules, and teaching CI without words to village kids on the border of Myanmar. For more of their work: visit @hojadeltropico and @awakedanceflow ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca

This is my favourite episode thus far! We're live in Chiang Mai, Thailand for Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference, a month long dance festival intensive. Our guest today is Khuyen Bui, teacher of CI, philosopher, TED speaker, and writer, based in Vietnam. For more of his work: visit www.khuyenbui.com barikim.blogspot.com ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca

Hello and welcome to Faces of CI! We're live in Chiang Mai, Thailand for Towards 50th CI Anniversary Conference, a month long dance festival intensive. Our guest today is Bari Kim, teacher of CI, Body-Mind Centering and choreographer, based in Seoul / Jeju, Korea. Find her work @bari.dance on Instagram and barikim.blogspot.com ● Find us online @facesofci on Instagram and learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca

Hello and welcome to our latest episode! We are here in Vancouver, Canada at Edam Dance Company, which holds a special place in my heart as it's the first studio I learned contact at and a beautiful space. Today I'm pleased to interview Anne Cooper, a Contact Improvisation teacher at Edam for 20+ years, artist, performer, and choreographer. Her Sunday classes are super welcoming for newcomers with her patient inquiring approach to Improvisation. We discuss performance, choreography, improv at a distance during Covid, funding for dancers, and.. how Contact is a metaphor for a perfect day at the beach! ● Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more. ● Learn Contact online at www.contactbody.ca ● You can find Edam's class schedule at edamdance.squaresite.com

Hello! I'm dancing solo in this episode, where I to get into my dance background. During this one you"ll learn more about me, discovering contact improv at a fusion festival, the 4 dance styles I see at jams, and some Nancy Stark Smith wisdom. Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more content. Find Nancy Stark Smith's "Mini Solo Underscore": https://bit.ly/3i0ftNk

Hello and welcome to the (long awaited) Ubud, Bali episode! Ubud holds a special place in my heart as I've now spent 9 months this year here and it's my unofficial new home. We're joined by teachers and dancers in the local community ~ Helena Kober, Somaji Surya, Fay Yeo Un Kim and Anika Gunawan. Follow along @facesofci on Instagram for more.

Welcome to Faces of CI! Here we talk all things contact improvisation with CI dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand, joined by Bernd Vollmer, Astrid Van Zon and Dolores Dewhurst Marks, discussing dance as life philosophies, dance highs, yoga into CI journeys and the magic of not knowing. Follow us on Instagram @facesofci for more!

Welcome to Faces of CI! Here we talk all things contact improvisation with CI dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Chang Mai, Thailand, joined by CI teachers Vangelis Legakis and Man Yee Cheung to discuss their current dance projects and teaching methods (or "sharing" as Man Yee puts it) . Follow us on Instagram @facesofci for more!

Hello and welcome to our first episode of Faces of CI. We'll talk all things contact improvisation, with dancers, teachers, strangers and friends. Today we're in Arambol, India interviewing fellow dancers ~ Orion Freeman, Vega Luukkonen, Ambarish Shiva, Harmandeep Singh and Nati Nita. We cover our first impressions of this practice, teaching, CI as a metaphor for life, finding the ultimate connection in a dance partner and much more! Follow us on Instagram @facesofci and hit subscribe!