Brad Stoller has been practicing Contact Improv for over 30 years. He currently teaches Contact and various other disciplines of Improvisation at the University of Richmond and Hampden Sydney College. He is an award winning playwright and is a certified Alexander Technique teacher and black belt in Aikido.

Brando Brandes graduated Smith College with a Masters in Education and is a teaching artist/performer with Enchanted Circle Theater. Brando has been teaching movement practices for over 10 years. He has taught and performed CI throughout the USA, Europe, Israel, Guatemala and teaches master classes at Springfield College and Smith College. He has been published in CQ and was a curator for CI36. Brando has facilitated several major festivals, jams, symposiums, and events at Earthdance Dance Retreat Center.

Cathie Caraker is an independent dance artist who has been practicing CI for 30 years. She studied extensively with Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Karen Nelson and many other inspiring teachers in the 80's and 90's. A certified practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®, she applies the BMC work to improvisation, movement research and the dance-making process. Her performance work and teaching have been presented at dance institutes, festivals and theaters across the US, Europe and S. America and from 1993-2006 she was on the faculty of the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. She is currently based in San Francisco, where she is artistic director of MAMMALdance.

Karen Nelson has been dancing Contact Improvisation since 1976 although she says it feels like now in 2012 she is ready to train seriously as a dancer. She has toured, teaching and performing, in many places worldwide and has collaborated with many wonderful artists. Her work with Steve Paxton and his system "Material for the Spine" has a tremendous influence in her Contact teaching and dancing. Along with Alito Alessi in the 1980's, she started the Breitenbush Jam and DanceAbility in Oregon; and with others later in the 90's, Diverse Dance Research Retreat held on Vashon Island, WA. For the last 2 decades or so, composition within improvisation has been a passion; working with Lisa Nelson and her approach of Tuning Scores is a constant source of inspiration and investigation.

Moti Mark Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improv 24 years ago. Over the past 17 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Guatemala, Mexico, Europe and Israel. In 2008-09 he taught as Dance Professor at the Instituto Naciónal de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Moti has been a regular teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA. Other recent teaching engagements include DanceBase (Edinburgh), Circuit-Est (Montreal), Z in Motion Festival (Helsinki), and Lila Lopez Contemporary Dance Festival (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) He was an original member of Wire Monkey Dance Co., (Holyoke, MA, USA). As a musician Moti plays vocal-electronic music for Contact Jams and in 2007 released his debut CD, Doorwaves. He also designs and moderates the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com. In addition Moti is a professional photographer. His latest project "The Dancer's Tarot" is a photographic tarot deck, using dancers as models to embody the traditional Tarot archetypes.

Neige Christenson has been an enthusiastic improviser since discovering CI in1981. At her home-dance in Boston, MA, she's a loyal jam facilitator, teacher and performer. She's taught CI in school settings, residential jams and festivals as well as taking her workshops on the road. She loves the way CI can be a metaphor for human relationship and also an abstract expression of life-force energy. Her teaching encourages opening the improvisational mind and body to full presence and connection with self and other. She holds a Master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University and her writings on CI have appeared in Contact Quarterly and <Proximity> magazines. Her home-dance is in Boston, MA.