Contact Improvisation Week 1, 2 & 3
w/ Bari Kim, Katja Mustonen, Kostas Gerardos, Johan Nilsson, Kira Kirsch & Itay Yatuv
You have chosen to register for Week 1,2 & 3 of our Winter Programme at the Dance Yurt of Aegina, 4–23 January 2027.
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We look forward to welcoming you and diving into the dance together!
~ The Dance Yurt Team
Your teachers
Bari Kim
Bari Kim is a dance artist and Contact Improvisation practitioner whose work explores movement, physicality, and the relationships between bodies, the earth, and gravity. Her practice focuses on listening, responding, leading and following, embracing the creative chaos and vulnerability that emerge through dancing with another person.
Katja Mustonen
Katja Mustonen is a Finnish dancer, teacher, and choreographer with over 20 years of experience working internationally. Her practice focuses on Contact Improvisation, partnering, improvisation, and embodied movement. She is interested in the holistic performer, combining physicality with imagination, energy, and embodied wisdom, and works across performance, creation, and teaching.
Kostas Gerardos
Kostas Gerardos is a Greek dancer, choreographer, and educator with over three decades of experience in contemporary dance and performance. He has taught contemporary dance, Contact Improvisation, composition, and performance in Greece and internationally. His teaching draws on research into natural movement, anatomy, gravity, and momentum, with a focus on developing efficient, fluid, and embodied movement. He is also the creator of the Flow in Motion method.
Johan Nilsson
Johan Nilsson discovered Contact Improvisation in 2004 and has since worked internationally as a teacher and performer, regularly teaching and organising CI events. His work increasingly combines dance, somatics, and his background in gardening, Biodynamic farming, and Permaculture. Through his Ecosomatics practice, he explores the connection between our bodies, movement, and the wider living world, using somatic exercises and improvisation to cultivate presence, awareness, and interconnectedness.
Kira Kirsch
Kira Kirsch is a movement artist, educator, researcher, curator, and community weaver based at Lake Studios Berlin. With over 20 years of experience, she has developed collaborative approaches to movement through the Axis Syllabus, somatic practices, Contact Improvisation, and contemporary dance. Her work explores embodied learning, biomechanics, sensory awareness, and the body as a dynamic, interconnected system.
Itay Yatuv
Itay Yatuv is a contemporary dancer, Contact Improvisation teacher, and long-term Aikido practitioner who has trained and worked internationally for over 20 years. He is the creator of the ContaKids method, which brings children and parents together through movement and touch, and the founder of Bona Dance. His teaching explores the connections between dance, Aikido, play, and physical communication, with a focus on connection, awareness, and creative movement.