ANNA GUSTAVSSON

Anna Gustavsson is a percussionist/musician, and composer that mixes contemporary percussion and electronics with lowfipop and small synthesizers. she works mostly in the field of performing arts, and often in projects with visulal artists, writers and poets.  She also creates sound installations, one of them being musical swings for trees.  Anna also gives workshops in how to make thumb pianos for children.

CHRISTINA LEWIS

Christina is the director of the Clown School of San Francisco, where she has been teaching workshops in clown character development and improvisation for fifteen years. 

Christina started clowning in Nicaragua when she traveled there with a Women's Circus. She has studied and performed clowning in Europe, Mexico and the United States. She received her Master's in Drama Therapy in San Francisco. 

CHRISTINE RENAUDIN

A former member of Ann Woodhead’s Dance Company and co-founder of contact improvisation collective, Lezokiparl, Dr. Renaudin cultivates her contemporary dance practice with various teachers in the Bay Area, including her colleagues at Sonoma State University. An avid contact improvisation practitioner, she co-leads the monthly West Marin Contact Improvisation at the Dance Palace in Point Reyes Station.

JENNY BETH SCHAFFER

Jenny Beth Schaffer is a physical theater performer, improvisation artist, and monologist. Her performance/ presence practice focuses on cultivating moment to moment awareness to allow unexpected, exquisite narrative and images to emerge. Jenny Beth has been practicing, teaching, and performing Action Theater for 25 years. She was a member of the International Action Theater Ensemble and has collaborated over the years in many delightful physical theater and dance projects. Jenny Beth holds a degree from the IMS Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies Certification Program.

VALENTINA EMERI

Valentina Emeri was born in Bolzano, Italy and studied in Rome at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts “Silvio D’Amico.” Valentina has appeared in more than 50 theatre productions and 18 movies, performing in Italian, German, and English. She studied with Peggy Hackney and is a Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst.

CATHIE CARAKER

Cathie Caraker is a dance artist and teacher. Her performance work and teaching have been presented at venues including the New York Improvisation Festival, DTW, Movement Research, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Contactfestival Freiburg, de Beweging Antwerp, Contredanse Brussels, NESTheaters Amsterdam, CounterPULSE and SFDI.

 A certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, she spent 10 years on the faculty of the Amsterdam School for the Arts / Dept of Choreography (SNDO) and holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College. Her writings on BMC and dance education have been published in the Belgian dance journal Nouvelles de Danse.