Teachers　Katja Mustonen, Otto Akkanen

The base for our study is the physical understanding of flow. Considering flow as a mobile, structured mass moving through space – usually spherical pathways - with ease and softness. Practicing flow through listening shifts of weight, especially in slow motion, builds up the common vocabulary for our dances. However, sometime staying within flow diminishes our chances for decisions.This has drawn our curiosity towards how do I make choices as a solo while continuing to attend the dance with other(s), and has brought us to question our habitual patterns of movements. Fragmentation as the loss of learnt responses, refusal of offered invitations, gaps and the braking of the flow. The workshop will oscillate in the space of learning and questioning the learnt. Flow provides us the physical skills, fragmentation gives access to uncommon choices, and by combining both we compose our dances.

Katja Mustonen (Finland / Germany)　

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.

Otto Akkanen (Finland）　

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.

Teacher　Mei Li

My teaching or facilitating will be based on contact improvisation dance, improvisational dance and opening dialogue.

Mei Li（Taiwan）　

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”.

Teacher　Takao Kawaguchi

Like releasing fish into the water, you free your body onto the floor and dive. The cool water feels good, every pore of your skin opens up for the good feeling. As if inside the water, let every joint of your body float and be open. Listen to the sounds around you, open your eyes to look. Open all your senses to the outer environment, and start moving by responding to it.
The class will be in simple English. From understanding instructions to asking questions, you’re invited to get used to a dance-class English.

Takao Kawaguchi（Tokyo）　

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.

Teacher　Mandy Ming-yin YIM

The workshop will focus on breathing. By deep listening to our breathe from a simple breathing in, breathing out and the moment in between each breathe. We then try to investigate how breathing connected to our feeling, daily activities and to explore movement that developed from breathing. Mandy will also lead us to start contacting with the space and the other people with the focus on the breathing. We than go further into improvisation and Contact Improvisation with the theme and focus on breathing...!

Mandy Ming-yin YIM（Hong Kong）　

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.

Teacher　Ru-Hong Lim

Through seemingly simple “contact,” seemingly threshold-less “movement,”
And seemingly empty ‘quietness,” you will experience borderless and boundless inner depth and clarity.

From the spontaneous response of body and mind, you will discover that the development of body and mind has unimaginable space and potential.

Ru-Hong Lim　（Taiwan）　

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 & Dancer in ‘Not Knowing, but Wanting to Know’ in Taiwan. She has been invited in ‘i-Dance Japan 2013 Contact Improvisation International Dance Festival’, ‘Asian Improvisation Art Exchange’ in South Korea, and ‘i’Trôtra – 8ème Festival International de Danse Contemporaine’ in Madagascar.

Teacher　Seo, Kyong Sun (namu)

It would be a personal search.
You could observe the movement of the abdominal breathing. Then, you could find your own rhythm after making personal vibration. I want you to perceive your own body as having a profound experience when you are dancing.

Seo, Kyong Sun (namu)（Korea）　

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

Teachers　Chico Katsube, Shoko Kashima

In this workshop, as we play with the distance between people, you will create the dance which is shifting organically from solo, duo, trio and to the group works.
We see many beautiful duos in Contact Improvisation, and this will be the one approach of bringing it to the group improvisation.

Chico Katsube / Shoko Kashima（Kagoshima）　

勝部ちこ、鹿島聖子で構成するコンタクト・インプロビゼーショングループC.I.co.は、2000年、東京をベースに設立。日本各地でのワークショップ開催や、イスラエル、オランダ、フィンランド、ドイツ、スペイン、香港、台湾、韓国、マダガスカル、ブルキナファソなどでも国際企画に参加し、研究・交流活動を続ける。2008年から国際的CIフェスティバル（CI Festival Japan）を企画/制作。
2012年夏、東京から鹿児島県伊佐市に移住。芸術と社会の関係を見直し、新たな価値を創造するため、地域と連動する芸術活動を展開中。2014年、PechaKucha KagoshimaやTEDxKagoshimaにスピーカーとして登壇。マルヤガーデンズアカデミー（鹿児島市）での講演会やKTS鹿児島テレビ番組「見っどナイト！」、鹿児島読売テレビ「かごピタ！」に出演する他、即興演劇とのコラボ、知的障害者施設でのワークショップ、乳幼児対象のパフォーマンス、などCIの多様性、可能性を追求する毎日。共著 ｢協同と表現のワークショップ｣ (2010) 東信堂 の中でCIワークショップの事例紹介。NHKドラマ「はつ恋」（2012）のエンディングに出演・演出。

Teacher　Kim Bong-Ho

- Most of our time, body and thoughts always move together or sometimes alone
- How can we support the mind
- Finding the state of the emptiness, creating spaces, breathing, waiting and listening.

Bong-Ho Kim (Korea)　

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