（Tokyo March11-14, Kanazawa March20）　Ray Chung

Using Contact Improvisation as a foundation, we will create ways to improvise dancing in duo, trio, and ensemble.  A detailed survey of CI essentials, with a focus on efficient, effortless use of technical skills, will develop a facility for, and availability to, changing physical states and levels of touch and weight. We will work with strategies for improvising or, expanding our range of choice how we improvise the way we improvise, as well as ways of embodying our imagination in movement.  Come prepared for focused playfulness within committed practice.

（Tokyo March11-14, Kanazawa March21）　Natanja den Boeft

‘Happy ki’, ‘ki-heart’, ‘original ki’, ‘luck-ki’, ‘sharp ki’, ‘heaven-ki’..........All expressions in daily life Japanese. Yet isolating ‘ki’ as a force or energy to work with is less common.Many masters in the martial arts have developed ways to develop and work with ‘ki’, to make it visible even. In Aikido, master Tohei has developed a simple system of exercises, with the goal to create a strong yet soft body. Many teachers after him have refined and extended his system.
In dance these exercises are useful tools for dealing with the flows of energy in one’s body and in dancing with partners.
In the classes this week we will practice
the ki-principles offered by Aikido and
use them in warming-up, in addressing basic skills
such as carrying, falling and lifting, and
in keeping the body save from injury.
It will be a combination of precise exercises
about ki-extension, relaxation,
weight and the mind, and improvisation
A one of class on simplicity
We touch...we meet...something happens...a dance; contact improvisation in its barest form. A class on simplicity and its endless possibilities.

　（Tokyo March13,14 Kanazawa March 20, 21, 23）　Dror Zohar

The deep reality of life is that we are little waves in the big soup of existence. Never separate, never alone. Always changing, exchanging, and melting into the rest of the soup. But… To the contemporary human mind life appears different: We are individuals, separate life units with a solo existence and ability to make some connection once in a while.
In this workshop we will use our moving bodies
to explore this gap of reality and appearance:
We will look into our solo experience of freedom and
independence, test different ways of connecting
and meet the joys and challenges that
these connections bring. And maybe, if we are ready,
we can loose our sense of self melting into
the greater movement of life.

（Kanazawa March19-21） Noam Carmeli

This is an invitation to become acquainted with
and experience Contact Improvisation technique
as a method for enriching and deepening the awareness
to the Structure of the body.
Out of a state of physical release,
listening and awareness to the flow of energies within
the posture and form of the body -is made possible.
Through the body's architecture
we will emphasize kinetic and
acrobatic work and together with
the movement we will enjoy a liberated,
soft, efficient and precise dance.

　（Kanazawa March19-21）　Shira Mintzer

In this workshop we will explore the characters relationships
and stories that are hidden inside our movement
While observing our own natural behaviors,
such as walking, we can find ourselves fascinated
with the simplest things that rise up from the movement.
The musicality, the dynamic, enriches, weight, directions…
By recognizing the moments within the dance that create conflicts,
physically and emotionally, that light up the imagination
with stories and images, we can interpret the movement and
reveal the hidden character and the dance can go beyond
the movement itself and tell a story without words.
Through methods of improvisation, physical theater,
contact and simple observation we will explore and expand our dance and performance skills.
We will dive into a dance where a simple movement can create a whole world.

(Tokyo March11-14)　Noam + Shira

Out of state of physical release we allow listening and awareness to the flow of qi energy. Movement is developed with the changes in pressure point, its level of intensity, rhythm and weight exchange.
In a contact improvisation meeting, similarity to shiatsu, each person brings a wide range of habits, limits, sensations and actions
Combining shiatsu with CI offers new ways to view the nature of meeting and connection with awareness, intention and presence all the time.
This is an invitation to study and experience CI and shiatsu combined as means of enriching, listening and deepening the sensitivity and physical awareness.
Through dancing we will experience a released quality, softness, effectiveness and precision and open more qualities in our dance with our surrounding.

（TokyoMarch11-12,　KanazawaMarch21-23）　Masako Noguchi

Workshop for dancers, performers and everyone who wants to discover something new about him/herself. In daily life we constantly produce new situations, relating us with the Space and Time. Thus our bodies acquire new meanings and history. Listening to the time and observing the space, listening to the space and observing the time, our bodies and minds sense more clearly landscapes inside and outside. The dance improvisation discovers the opportunities our own movement and imagination give.
The workshop is in Japanese and English.

(Tokyo March15) Shoko Kashima

Eye and camera lens are two of a kind. In this class, we explore and play with the sight and view. If you are camera, how you see and watch the relationship between space and people. Also imagine how you are seen and watched by camera (viewer). We will think about to create performance from outer angle.

（Kanazawa March22）　Shoko Kashima

Let's make the movie at the beautiful gallery in Kanazawa. Everyone will be the director and performer taking advantage of the characteristic of the space and exploring vorius possibility of dancing.

　（Tokyo March15）　Chico Katsube

MA is the Japanese word for “Space” between things in space and in time. We will play with the “Space” between partners and people in the group, then we think about the psychological changes caused by the physical changes or shifting situations.
Space is the place to feel,
Space is the place to listen,
Space is the place to begin,
Space is the place to suspend,
Space is the place to decide,
Space is the place to dance,
Space is the place to contact.

　（Pre event　Tokyo March8-9）　Dror Zohar、Mike

He is a performer, teacher, engineer, and artist who has worked with Contact Improvisation and improvisation since 1979.
He uses Contact Improvisation as part of improvisational performance practice and integrates other movement forms into his work, including martial arts, bodywork and Authentic Movement.
He regularly collaborates with dancers, musicians, and other artists and has worked with Nancy Stark Smith, Lisa Nelson, Steve Paxton, Peter Bingham, and others.
Ray's work has been shown in various festivals and venues throughout Europe, Japan, South America, Canada, and the U.S.

is a freelance dancer/teacher/artist based in Amsterdam. She has been teaching since 1987, in (contact)improvisation, technique, composition and performance skills, to professional dancers and actors, as well as amateurs in a wide range of backgrounds.
From 1992-1999 she was a staff member at the Theater school Amsterdam, department 'School for New Dance Development', in improvisation and contact-improvisation. She regularly teaches workshops and guest classes at various dance-academies and studios throughout Europe and in Japan.
In 1986 she started her ongoing practice in Aikido. She practices and teaches at the Shin Budo Kai dojo in Amsterdam.
The practice of Aikido has over the years become an important influence in her dance work, especially in contact-improvisation, for its use of energy, centered strength, space and direction.
Besides teaching she makes films and site-specific performances, she writes and photographs.

I am a student, guide and entrepreneur in the paths of human evolution with background in Yoga, Meditation, Contact Impro, Martial arts, Integral Philosophy, and Project management. I am the founder of the Israeli Contact Festival and other initiatives for personal and social growth. I live in Israel and I often travel the world to learn, teach and enjoy. Israel Contact festival; www.contactil.org

Architect, dancer, improvisation teacher
He studied design and architecture in Israel and in Amsterdam, and movement at the Laban Centre in London.
And he is a member of the N.Ireland “Echo Echo” dance company and also a co-founder/ member of “octet” improvisation group in Israel. He teaches improvisation and Contact in the “muza” school and in workshops in Israel and abroad.
As an architect, he works in “skorka Architects” company. He has been studied Chinese philosophy and practices Aikido.

She is a dancer, independent artist, and shiatsu therapist.
Has a diploma in dance and choreography from the Laban Centre in London. Also studied physical theater at the "lecoque" school in Tel Aviv, performed in London and in various festivals across Europe.  
She has worked as the Artistic Director and teacher for improvisation in the "Jaffa Group" dance school.
Recently preformed with the "Sisyphe Heureux" dance company in France and with Thierry morel in the physical theater project-"Etincelles ".
Her work is also informed by her profession as a shiatsu therapist and her ongoing practice in Aikido weapon and yoga.

Since 1995 she has been living in Europe. She studied at the Laban center in London and the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam where she studied improvisation and composition. She has worked with several choreographers and musicians around Europe and in Japan. She started working with Magpie Music Dance Company in 1999, and in 2001 joined Italian-based dance company Deja Donne. She is currently based in Japan, Utsunomiya where she is further developing her research, her teaching and her performing. She organizes the dance studio Lab.M www.labmdance.com

She is a dancer, improviser, photographer and teacher based in Tokyo. She received her Master of Arts in dance education from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo.  She went to New York in 2002 to study dance for one year, with a scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists. She founded her own dance company "ZINZOLIN" in 1996. Their piece was selected by Joyce SOHO Presents, DUMBO Festival, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Cool NY 2004 Dance Festival in NY. After she came back to Japan, she also started to work with Chico Katsube, as a member of C.I.co. She is also known as a photographer, and have good feeling for taking dance pictures. She took part in Israel contact festival in 2005.

She is a dance improviser, choreographer and a teacher from Osaka, Japan. She has studied and danced in New York City as a company member of Joy Kellman among others. She has begun CI activity in Japan with the strong influence and the recommendation of Nancy Stark Smith who was visited Japan and taught her workshops. In 2000, she founded C.I.co., a Contact Improvisation Company. Since then she has been a leading figure in teaching, organizing and performing CI in Tokyo and throughout Japan. In 2005, she participated and taught intensive workshop in Contact Festival in Israel. In the summer of 2006, she taught a workshop in the Magpie Collective Workshop and performed with the Magpie Music and Dance in Amsterdam. Now she is creating and studying to search and mix the Asian Culture in their dance improvisation.