Project Leaders

Project coordinator & dancer: Gabrielle Barnett, based Girdwood, Alaska.
Gabrielle Barnett first studied contact improvisation with Karen Nelson and KJ Holmes in the late 1980s. She began working with place-based research, writing, and activism in the 1990s, earning a doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University. She has collaborated on numerous performance projects in the Anchorage area, ranging from children's theater to experimental performance art. Her movement training includes modern, west African, and Afro-Carribean dance, as well as contact improvisation.
She teaches at the University of Alaska, Anchorage for both the Liberal Studies and Theatre and Dance programs.

Artist-in-residence, dancer & documentation coordinator: Tinu Hettich, based Berne, Switzerland.
Tinu Hettich has worked with contact improvisation, videography and martial arts since 1990. He teaches CI and participates in movement projects internationally. His formative teachers were Peter Aerni, Patrick Collaud and Nancy Stark Smith.
Together with Peter Aerni he runs Atelier FreiForm, a space for image and movement in Berne. He is part of the organizing team of the international CI jam in Berne and the European Underscore Research Group.

Project partner in Russia : Caroline Waters, based Brighton, UK.
Caroline Waters has organized many International Improvisation events, including ECITE, and is an Artistic Director of Contact Moscow. She has performed at countless International Improvisation Festivals across Europe and America. She was an Associate Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts, UK from 1996-2007 and has taught as a visitor in Colleges in Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland, Slovenia and the USA. Mainly drawing from Contact Improvisation and New Dance practices, she teaches, performs and directs in situations ranging from performance to therapy. Caroline continues to develop her own body of work internationally as a freelance improviser in performance, as a dancer, teacher and musician.

Photographers/videographers

John Bainbridge: based Durham, North Carolina.
John Bainbridge started his practice of Contact Improvisation in 1990 with Teri Carter at the University of Oregon and has been devoted ever since. He currently co-facilitates the weekly C.I. jam in Durham, North Carolina and hosts a C.I. photography web page: http://ci.baynbrigge.com

Tinu Hettich

UAA Research Intensive Participants and Performers:

Tamara Rothman Miller
Michelle Steffens

Community Workshop Performers:

Shawnie Goings
Wendy Withrow
Mahri Lowenger

Special thanks to

the Frazier family and the Edgecombe/Ware family for hosting guest artists
Alaska Dance Theatre for extra studio space
Matt & Naomi Berman for general project support, including childcare, cooking, and letting mom dance
Doni, Sabrina, Cheryl, and Wendy for administrative support
Megan and her crew from the UAA coffe shop for the Chai-Lattes
Buzz Schell and Duke Russell for extra video support
Doug Causey for saying yes to the project

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Dancers: Peter Aerni & Tinu Hettich
Photographer Nathalie Uhlmann

Moving North contact

Gabrielle Barnett tel +1 907 783 1306 afgrb@uaa.alaska.edu
Tinu Hettich tel +41 76 4288032, ci@triconsult.ch