David Flewelling began his professional career with Peter Bingham and has since gone on to study and perform with Allen and Karen Kaeja, Tony Olivares, Ray Chung and participated in the mentor project with Andrew Harwood. David has taught contact-improv to the Toronto and Montreal CI communities, at the University of Lethbridge, and at the University of Alberta. He has received grants from the BC Arts Counsil and The Canada Council for the Arts for his development in CI. He is a regular faculty member of the Summer Dance Intensive for Orchesis has been invited as guest choreographer to Orchesis at the University of Alberta for the 2009 performance.
Stéphanie Gaudreau has studied CI in 1992 under one of the founders, Nancy Stark Smith. Since then she has become a teacher of CI around the Montreal area with youth and adults alike. She is one of the founders of L'Association de Contact Improvisation in 2001 and continues to work as an organizer and administrator. Her teaching style is geared towards presence in performance and authentic movement.
Catherine Lessard During the years, she traveled to Europe, America and Asia, finding spaces to train in CI, body-mind-centering, authentic movement and butoh with international coaches: Nancy Stark-Smith, Kirstie Simpson, Ray Chung, Gyohei Zaitsu, Patricia Kuypers... She also has a license in communication and music. Native from Montréal, she lived in France a decade, proposing workshops and classes for people of all horizons. Recently back from a one-year journey in Thailand, approaching Thai boxing and Buddhist philosophy, Catherine now lives in Montreal, teaching and performing CI.
Robert H. Schweitzer was introduced to CI by his Alexander Technique teacher, Judith Grodowitz, while living in New Jersey. He has studied CI with Louis Guillemette, Stéphanie Gaudreau, Andrew Harwood, Chris Aiken, and Nancy Stark-Smith among others. His performances include several art pieces by Andrew Forster and an integrated-dance piece by Talía Leos with four able-bodied and two quadriplegic dancers. Robert teaches the Alexander Technique in Montreal
Eryn Dace Trudell– holds a BFA’91 in dance from The Juilliard School. She has been practicing Skinner Releasing Technique™ and CI throughout her lengthy and versatile career in dance. A recipient of a Chalmers grant from The Ontario Arts Council to further her skills in Contact Improvisation, she studied intensively with Nancy Stark Smith at Earthdance in Massachusetts. Eryn has also worked intensively with master teachers and performers Karen and Allen Kaeja, Peter Bingham, Ray Chung, Chris Aiken and Lisa Nelson and was part of a mentoring project with Andrew de L. Harwood.