Kirstie’s teaching draws from her knowledge of contact improvisation, dance techniques, Aikido, meditation and her extensive experience of performing improvisation. Her teaching builds on simple physical principles allowing participants to explore their experience of moving and understanding their own bodies more profoundly. Participants will be absorbing the skills of dancing in partnership with others, improvising with greater sensitivity to each other and the environment. Most importantly her work has been a life-practice, and as such she shares her insights into the application of this art form as a way to approaching life. It is a way for her to share the knowledge she has gleaned from thirty-four years of loving to improvise and perform, and an acknowledgment of the gift this has been in her life.