Guest Artist / Teachers 
Bong-Ho Kim ( Korea ) Dancer
He is the Member of AIAE Korea and co-directs of ET AUSSI Dance Company 2007-2013
He is active both locally and internationally, teaching dance contact improvisation in dance centers and festivals in Europe ( France , Switzerland), in South America (Chile and Argentina, Fronteras projects) and in Asia (workshops in Seoul, i-Dance Japan, i-Dance Taiwan, i-Dance Hong Kong, Mydance Alliance Malaysia... ) He is particularly interested in supporting and expanding improvisation networks in Asia. He is the co-organizer of the i-Dance Korea Asia Improvisation Art Exchange since 2008, a biennale held in South Korea. He first entered into theater in 1993 then 1996 switched the direction to dance and worked in various Korean dance companies and improved greatly.
His major creations as choreographer are such as “Shaking”, “Socrates falls in love”, “Dust”, “Memory”, “Transition”, “Fragment”
http://www.aiaekorea.com http://etaussidance.com
KATJA MUSTONEN (FINLAND/GERMANY) Dancer
is a Finnish dancer, teacher and dance maker, who currently works and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She graduated from the Vocational Dance School in Outokumpu, Finland 2004 as dancer, and holds a MA degree in “Contemporary Dance Pedagogy" from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2008, she’s been teaching Contemporary Dance Technique, Improvisation and Contact Improvisation both in Frankfurt and abroad. She is curious about the unknown as a source for creativity, and considers it to be the best teacher for change and growth. States of presence and the body’s ability to transform, embody, and transmit images, knowledge, emotions and ideas continue to fascinate and inspire her movement practice, research and life.
Mandy Ming-yin YIM（Hong Kong） Dancer
Co-founder of Y-Space, Mandy YIM graduated from the School of Dance of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She was the full-time dancer of The Hong Kong Ballet and City Contemporary Dance Company dancer from 1988 to 1996. She was a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship in 1996 to further her study in the USA. In 2000, she was invited to create a site-specific work for the Harare International Festival of the Arts in Zimbabwe and to participate in the October Dance Festival in Bergen, Norway. In 2007, she involved in My Life as a Dancer – The Evolution for the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Her experience in teaching, performance and choreography has spanned four continents. She has been the producer and performer in i-Dance (Hong Kong) since 2009. YIM is currently the Outreach and Education Director of Y-Space.
"Acknowledgement
The participation of Mandy Yim is supported by the Arts Development Fund of the Home Affairs Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region."
Mei Li（Taiwan） Dancer
Mei Li graduated from London Contemporary Dance School with MA degree with distinction. She worked with Kirstie Simson in the filming of ‘International Documentary of Dance Improvisation’ and ‘Dance Cambodia,’ and has been invited to perform and teach improvisation in numerous festivals such as ‘Contact Improvisation Festival Japan,’ and ‘Asian Improvisation Art Exchange’ in Seoul, ‘i- dance Taipei’, ‘Hong Kong E-Side Arts Festival,’ ‘Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur,’ ‘Festival International de Danse Contemporaine’ in Madagascar. She is an active practitioner, a performer of improvisation, a member of Ku & Dancers Dance Company since 1999.
She has also been invited to various artist residency programs, such as World Dance Day in India, Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and Kio-A-Thau Artist-in-Residence,Taipei Public Arts Festival, and New Taipei City Public Art in Taiwan. Recently she is choreographing a site specific project for Preparatory Office of the National Human Rights Museum.
As a dance educator in Taiwan, she has organized workshops for Taiwan’s various communities and populations, from the physically challenged to opera singers to musicians. She has worked with the National Theater and Concert Hall in Taiwan giving public lectures. She currently teaches at National Taiwan University of Arts and at Dance Forum Taipei Dance Company, and is the Director at “Perennial Tree。Creativity/Psychology。Programmes”.
Mingchu “Xiaochu” Yu （Taiwan） Dancer
Mingchu “Xiaochu” Yu is a dancer, performer, and improvisation teacher in Taiwan. In 1999, she joined Ku & Dancers, participating in several performances. She then went to France, where she studied and worked with different choreographers including Yuko Kametami, Erinc Aslanboga, Simon Williams and Yukiko Murata. She received her MFA from Université Paris Saint-Denis in 2005.
Yu returned to Taipei in 2008 and has since been involved in interdisciplinary projects ：《 Room》 &《 Bathroom》 with Flying Puppet Group; 《 Dream Digger》 with 1/2 Q Theatre，besides working with Ku & Dancers. In 2011, she was invited to ‘i’Trôtra – 8ème Festival International de Danse Contemporaine in Madagascar, to i-Dance Asia Improvisation Art Exchange in Seoul in 2012, 2014, and to contact improvisation Kuala Lumpur in 2013.
Otto Akkanen (Finland） Dancer
is dance artist, photographer, bodywork practitioner, and a teacher. He graduated from the dance department of the vocational school of Outokumpu, Finland (2006).
He has taught contact improvisation in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Poland, Argentina, Brasil and Finland. Sources of inspiration are his background in social work (BA degree in 2001), poetry, philosophy and music. His perspectives on power, hierarchies, politics, structures, beings, ideas and categories, are influencing his approach to teaching. He will finish his M.A. In Contemporary Dance Education (MACoDE) in Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts on July 2014.
Seo, Kyong Sun (namu)（Korea）Dancer
Education
2005 Graduated from a master course of choreography The Korean National University of Arts 1996 Graduated from Sung Kyun Kwan University specialize in Dance
Activitiesmember of AIAERepresentative of the dance group of ‘movement neuru’
2015 Performance, “Can we change it?” of Seoul Art Space_Hongeun.
2014~2015 Residency, Artists-in-residency of Seoul Art Space_Hongeun. Seoul Foundation For Arts and Culture
2014 Partnership, i-Dance Korea Asia Improvisation Art Exchange 20142014 Project "Expression though Female-body" by <My Sisters Dance Troupe @ Guro> ; Seoul Arts & Culture Education Center project
2013~2014 Nature and Human "Take a walk?", ; The place of first communication to meet human and human
2013~2014 "Toot Network"; As creators of communication & support, undergoing creative activity for establishing independent arts footing
2010~2011 Residency,The First Group Artists-in-residency of Seoul Art Space_Seongbuk Seoul Foundation For Arts and Culture
2009~2015 part-time instructor, Theather, college of Arts of DanKook University
Ru-Hong Lin (Taiwan) Dancer, counseling psychologist
Dancer, counseling psychologist, director of Perennial Tree Psychotherapy Center, and part-time assistant professor at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Ru-Hong Lin recieved her MA in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University, USA. She has performed together with Kirstie Simson and Ku & Dancers in ‘Not Knowing, but Wanting to Know’ in Taiwan. She has been invited in ‘i-Dance Japan 2013 Contact Improvisation International Dance Festival’, ‘Asia Improvisation Art Exchange 2014’ in South Korea, and ‘i’Trôtra – 8ème Festival International de Danse Contemporaine’ in Madagascar.
Takao kawaguchi (Tokyo) Dancer
Born in 1962 in Saga, Japan. Currently living in Tokyo. Started acting when student, and after having learned the “mime” physical theater, Kawaguchi shifted to performance. He joined ATA Dance from 1990, and Dumb Type from 1996, After 2003 he worked mainly in solo, exploring live performance crossing over the borders of theater, dance, video and plastic arts. In recent years, he has createed “Butoh-related” performances: “Yameru Maihime (The Ailing Dnace Misstress) - Two solos inspired by the texts of Hijikata Tatsumi” (2012), and “About Kazuo Ohno - Reliving the Butoh Diva’s Masterpieces” (2013). Currently in creation of a new piece “Touch of the Other”, a performance based on the sociological research on male to male sex in public toilets, scheduled to premiere in January 2016 in Tokyo.
Supporting Artists / Musician
Seika Iwashita（Kagoshima）Vocalist / Composer
心に入り込む独特の声で、独自の世界観を表現する。イオンなど、CMソングなどでもおなじみ。クラブシーンを中心に活動後東芝EMIなどからソロアルバム3枚発表。平田みずほ氏と mono-folioとしても活動中。アメタカオルとしてバンド「アメタ食堂」を主宰。陸の孤島と言われる鹿屋市の武家屋敷カフェ「アメタ食堂」をオーガナイズ。「身体は楽器」との思いから野口整体の活元運動や呼吸法に傾倒、コンタクトインプロビゼーションと出会う。
Miura Ichigo（Kyoto） percussionist
He is a percussionist and plays strings and bamboo sax also. He collaborates with many kinds of music project like world fusion, ethnic soundscape, solo performance using looper. He often collaborates with dance, and he has a good sense of improvisation.
WEBサイト：http://www.miura1.net/
Mitsuaki Matsumoto（Kagoshima） sound performer
Supporting Artists / Dancer
Tocco Konishi（Tokyo） Body conditioner / Dancer
She is a trainer at the gym in the Tokyo metropolitan area has designed the original training for golfers. She is based in Tokyo, and are woking in Fukuoka and Nagano too. She is working as a Pilates trainer, choreographer, dance instructor also. Besides she organize live performances, poetry reading, meeting to read philosophy book, she met C.I.co. and started contact improvisation.
Yuki Goda（Kyoto）Dancer
京都のダンスカンパニーMonochrome Circusダンサー。
2010 年から2 年間、パフォーマンスグループ「MuDA」のダンサーとしても活動。
合田緑との姉弟デュオ作品「白昼夢」、飯名尚人との共同作品「金魚撩乱」、山中透、Shinya B、Bucciらによる音楽ユニット"Air Vessel”とのライブパフォーマンスなど、様々なアーティストと積極的に活動を行っている。
Ayaka Suga（Tokyo） Dancer
She is a dancer based in Tokyo.
She studied dance at the Japan Women's College of Physical Education.
She has worked with a variety of artistic director, Company Derashinera (Shuji Onodera), DanceTheatreLUDENS (Takiko Iwabuchi), Keishi Nagatsuka, project Oyama, Kaori Seki ,etc.
She teach contact work from 2014.
Hanano Teshirogi（Tokyo） Dancer
© KATSUMI KAJIYAMA
Hanano Teshirogi is a Dancer, Contact Improviser, player and a teacher based in Tokyo and Miyagi. She studied at the Dance Major of Japan Woman's college of Physical Education. From 2008 to 2011, she danced and studied teaching, organizing and performing Contact Improvisation in Tokyo and throughout Japan at C.I.co. as a company member. In 2008, she founded CI-bu, a Dance Company based on the technique of contact imprvisation, with Miki Hoei. She has begun to study a community dance taking advantage of an earthquake disaster which happened in her hometown.
Kyoko Nomura（Kyoto） Dancer / Choreographer
© Sajik KimBorn in Fukuoka. She belong to the dance company “Monochrome Circus” that is based in Kyoto since 2007. Later, she gained experience in many stages in Japan and abroad as a main dancer of the company. Also as individual, she has done active co-production and improvised performance with musicians in various places as well. In addition, she has a lot of teaching experience of contact and contemporary dance in some workshops and education field in Japan.
Organizers/ Artists
Chico Katsube（Kagoshima） Dancer/Organizer
is a dance improviser, choreographer and a teacher from Osaka, Japan. She received her B.Ed. and M.A. degrees at the Dance Education Division of Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, where she studied Modern Dance and Choreography. From 1990 to 94, she studied and danced in New York City as a company member with many talented choreographers such as Joy Kellman and Ruby Shang. She has also developed her own style of choreography and performance.She has begun Contact Improvisation activity in Japan with the strong influence and the recommendation of Nancy Stark Smith who visited Japan and taught her workshops in 1997 at the program of “Triangle Project”.In 2000, she founded C.I.co., a Contact Improvisation Company, with Makiko Ito. Since then she has been a leading figure in teaching, organizing and performing Contact Improvisation in Tokyo and throughout Japan.In 2005, 2007 and 2012, she participated and taught intensive workshops 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. And in 2011, she participated Contact Festival Kuala Lumpur, i- dance Taipei, where she taught and performed with Shoko Kashima. And she has been a seed member of AIAE in South Korea from 2008.From 2008, she founded the CIFJ (Contact Improvisation Festival Japan) and continues to organize and create the international CI festival to exchange culture, people, essence of CI in Tokyo and some regions in Japan. Now she is studying and investigating together improvisation dance with Shoko Kashima, who is a dancer as well as a photographer, to search and mix the Asian Culture in their dance improvisation. In 2010, Chico and Shoko participated in ECITE in Finland and AIAE (Asian Improvisation Art Exchange) in Korea to research for the next improvisation project in Japan and Asia. She was a faculty of some universities in Tokyo for more than 10 years such as, Ochanomizu University, Keio University, Rikkyo University, Nihon Women’s college of physical Education where she teaches dance or CI regularly.In 2012, she moved her base of the dance activity (C.I.co.) from Tokyo to Kagoshima with Shoko Kashima. They started the activity with the focus on exploring and integrating Asian culture into improvisation, as well as to establish the art community in the countryside in Kagoshima prefecture. In 2013, she will organize the first “i-Dance Japan”, Contact Improvisation Festival in Isa-city.
http://www.ci-jp.com
Shoko Kashima（Kagoshima） Dancer/Photographer/Organizer
is a dancer, improviser, photographer and teacher. She received her Master of Arts in Dance Education from Ochanomizu University in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo and founded the dance company ZINZOLIN in 1996. In 2000 she created the partnership “Duo unit” with Ryoko Sugimoto, while also being awarded a one year scholarship from the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists to study dance in New York. Their works were selected for performance by Joyce SOHO Presents, DUMBO Festival, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Cool NY 2004 Dance Festival in NY. As a dancer, she danced for Chico Katsube, collaborated with Michael Schumacher, Chico Katsube, Katie Dack, Dance Theater Ludens, Ray Chung, Natanja den Boeft, Noam Carmeli and other many artists. After returning to Japan, Shoko began working with Chico Katsube as a member - and now co-director - of Contact Improvisation Group C.I.co.. In 2006, She founded the CIFJ (Contact Improvisation Festival Japan) with Chico and organized and create the international CI festival to exchange culture, people, essence of CI in Tokyo and some regions in Japan until 2012. She has been teaching CI at kindergartens, elementary schools, universities, public theaters and museums. She is a seed member of Asian Improvisation Art Exchange (Seoul, Korea), creating networks and researching improvisation among artists in Asia. She is fabulously known as a photographer, and has a good feel for taking dance pictures. In 2012, she moved from Tokyo to Kagoshima with Chico Katsube, and started activities of cultivate arts community in sparsely populated area.
http://www.ci-jp.com