Maria Grudskaya

Contact improvisation · somatics

Dancing CI for nearly 20 years and teaching for over 10 across Russia, Europe, Israel, Thailand and Asia. A certified somatic movement educator and co-founder of the festival.

Žan Perko

Somatic therapy · water · freediving

Somatic therapist, interdisciplinary artist and freediving instructor exploring the fluid meeting points of body, emotion and consciousness. Founder of Primal States.

Sasha Bezrodnova

CI · eco-somatics · OceanDance

Social psychologist and CI teacher with 22+ years of practice, founder of #OceanDance — teaching underwater dance in an eco-somatic approach.

Bari Kim

Dance artist · improviser

A dance artist and improviser based in Korea, whose focus is listening. She learns dance and music from nature, Buddhist philosophy and Korean traditional medicine.

David Leung

Contact improvisation

Born and raised in Hong Kong, David has studied and shared dance for over thirty years across the world. CI is his primary tool to deep-dive into being human.

Hester de Vries & Teun Melis

Aquatic arts · waterdance

Founders of Pai Water Temple in Northern Thailand, offering aquatic therapy and waterdance rooted in somatic and Taoist practice.

Yana Sutina

CI in water · freediving

Freediver, teacher of CI in water and contact dancer. For her, dance is a meditation with shifting focuses of attention that keep it alive and present.

Kirill Popov

Freediving · CI in water

Freediver and contact dancer who blends CI, diving and freediving. His relationship with water is so close he can no longer imagine life without the sea.