Over the last few years, since 2003, Marielle Hocdet has worked for several dance companies. At the moment she is working on the solo "I’ll Crane For You", choreographed by Deborah Hay. In 2007 she and Matthieu Cottin founded the Compagnie Process, which has become the framework for several artistic projects. Her teaching links her practice of contact improvisation with her experience as a performer and draws on her encounters with Yoshito Ohno, Carlotta Ikeda and Mark (...)

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Daniel Mang is a physiotherapist of osteopathic orientation. He has been teaching Contact Improvisation since 1990. His movement background includes Aikido, Feldenkrais and BMC. He sees his interest in radical social theory and his love of contact improvisation as two aspects of the same desire. He lives in Toulouse.

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NIEN MARI CHATZ studied and taught New Dance at the legendary School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam in the 80s and 90s. During these years she was initiatetd to Contact Improvisation by the pioneers of the form, Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simpson and many others. She has been performing and teaching in Europe and the USA since 1985. She danced with Compagnie Pauline de Groot (Amsterdam), Yoshiko Chuma, Tan Dun (NYC), Tanzfabrik (Berlin) and collaborated with other choreographers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists internationally. She currently lives in (...)

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