FACILITADORES 2026

Dancer, teacher, and performer of Contact Improvisation and dance for the past 37 years. As a mover and somatic psychotherapist she facilitates somatically based transformational workshops and works with individuals.

www.aliciagrayson.com

www.embodyingessence.com

MFA, PhD dances in and around performance. Born in Sudbury Canada, he lives in San Francisco since 1982 and tours internationally. He started dancing CI in Montréal in 1979 and has been practicing-teaching-studying-critiquing improvised dance and CI cultures ever since. Keith's doctoral research is a critical race and queer analysis of CI, which is summarized in the zine Questioning Contact Improvisation. Practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, contemporary dance, activist art, the Bay Area, wicca, punk, CI, indigeneity, and queer-feminism motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s work. Prioritizing collaboration, often across lines of difference, Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, Snowflake Towers (Yoeme, Mayan), Starhawk, the punk band Hemorage, and the BIPOC collaboratives Blank Map and Circle X. Keith's writings have been published in CQ, Movement Research, community dance blogs and several academic journals. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband with Sara Shelton Mann. Hennessy is a co-founder of CounterPULSE (formerly 848 Community Space) a thriving performance space in San Francisco.

@keithhenessy

Practitioner, researcher, and teacher of Contact Improvisation and Tango.

Dancer, dance teacher, movement researcher, clown, artisan, and a variety of other things — born in Mar del Plata, a seaside city in Argentina.

He has been teaching dance for 23 years and has spent over two decades traveling the world, sharing workshops and participating in festivals of Tango-Contact, Tango, Contact Improvisation, and movement.

He has also organized retreats and festivals and worked for three years as a cultural facilitator in the project “Body Expression for People with Different Abilities.”

More info on Instagram: @cacu.lucero.

is an integrative bodyworker, somatic experiencing practioner, aquatic therapist, movement artist, facilitator and freediver devoted to guiding the body toward functional fluidity and embodied freedom. Rooted in Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, aquatic dance, and Somatic Experiencing, his work bridges movement, psychology, and trauma healing. He’s currently nomadic, however based mostly between the San Francisco Bay Area and Berlin.

www.escolacqua.com/

Somatic educator and researcher trained in Naturopathy, Contemporary Dance, and physical and aquatic therapies. For over a decade, she has been organizing festivals, immersions, and trainings in Contact Improvisation, Somatics, and aquatic experiences such as Aguahara and #WATA.

In 2013, she founded Liquid Flow, which later became Contact and Flow in 2018.
Currently, what she enjoys most is integrating movement, body, and media; studying and drawing embryology and anatomy; painting; and handpoke tattooing.

Unilateral Deaf Person with Disability (PWD). A woman with roots in the waters of the Cerrado biome in Brazil. She is an artist in dance and cultural production. Her work is dedicated to celebratory dances and the subtleties of meaningful encounters.

She is currently researching water as a poetic, therapeutic, and pedagogical matrix, as well as a medium for dance, play, meditation, and care.

www.aguar.me