Contact Improvisation Week 1 & 3
w/ Bari Kim, Katja Mustonen, Kira Kirsch & Itay Yatuv
You have chosen to register for Week 1 & 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.
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.