Visibly Unstable

C o n t a c t I m p r o v i s a t i o n I n t e n s i v e

https://www.facebook.com/laura.doehler

www.exitmap.org

@info.exitmap

Laura is founder of Exit Map and facilitates learning and processing around how our body and movement fosters belonging, meaning, expression and connection for individual people, communities, students and businesses. She employs, learns and practices CI since 2004, making improvisation and human connection the tool and resource to trace change and the way we relate. Her main resource in developing her work is the Shared Practice, a format she co-developed in 2012 with her co-directors Anne-Gaelle Thiriot and Tania Soubry. Her projects Moving On and Openly Spaced Out are running since 2021 producing a practice and ongoing research in embodied socialising and socio-environmental connections. Laura holds a Master in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University and has been taught by Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark-Smith, Kirstie Simson, Charlie Morrisey, Asaf Bachrach and Matthieu Gaudeau amongst others. She also performs improvisations and teaches performance making alongside movement and dance studies in HE and independently across Europe.

Teachers

https://www.facebook.com/asaf.bachrach larret.org labodanse.org

Asaf has been practicing contact improvisation for about 30 years, studying in Tel Aviv, New York, Paris and Boston. His most influential teachers include Steve Paxton, Kirsty Simson, Lisa Nelson and Min Tanaka. Since 2000, he has taught in Europe, the United States, Israel and Buenos Aires. He has a regular practice of tango (which he has been teaching for the last 4 years). Asaf is a certified rolfer®, trained by Hubert Godard. Hubert Godard and Steve Paxton’s eco-somatic philosophies has shaped Asaf’s teaching, research and life more generally. Together with Matthieu Gaudeau, Emma Bigé, Joe Dumit and others, Asaf has been curious how to dance philosophy, articulating multiple scores and tools that diffract movement and language.

Asaf is one of the founders of the Collectif Contact in Paris and the association explorations sphériques. He currently lives in Larret, a founding member of the Larret en Mouvements collective (larret-a-venir.fr). Larret is a place dedicated to research in improvisation, somatics and ecology and their entanglements. Asaf is also a CNRS researcher in the cognitive neuroscience of language (he got his PhD at MIT in 2008), dance and improvisation (labodanse.org). Currently Asaf is developing in Larret a research action program with the local community that looks to impact our collective ecological imagination through shared artistic corporeal experiences.

@harrietroberts__

Harriet is a dedicated practitioner of Contact Improvisation, with over a decade of experience in both teaching and practice. She hosts thoughtfully curated courses, events and workshops in the UK, drawing on her extensive training in contemporary dance, somatic practice, and hands-on therapy to offer a holistic, embodied approach to movement. Harriet’s playful, practical and poetic teaching style invites dancers of all levels to explore connection and creativity through Contact Improvisation.