Workshop Teachers
Paul Singh, who holds a BFA in dance from the University of Illinois, has danced for a diverse range of choreographers and companies including Gerald Casel, Risa Jaroslow, Phantom Limb Company, Stephanie Batten Bland, Douglas Dunn, Christopher Williams, Kathy Westwater, and Faye Driscoll. Singh was featured in the inaugural cast of Punchdrunk’s American debut of Sleep No More. During his international ventures, Singh performed in Peter Sellars’ opera The Indian Queen (Madrid) and Peter Pleyer’s large-scale improvisation work Visible Undercurrent (Berlin). Singh’s choreographic works have been showcased at various venues in New York and Berlin, including a presentation of his solo piece Stutter at the Kennedy Center in 2004. Most recently, he premiered two new works on A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in 2024. In addition to his performance and choreographic endeavors, Singh is an experienced educator in contact improvisation (CI), teaching intensives and workshops worldwide for both teacher training and beginner studies. He teaches a range of technique classes, including CI, floor work, contemporary, and partnering, at Movement Research, Sarah Lawrence College, and The Juilliard School. Singh was program manager at Baryshnikov Arts Center from 2021 to 2023. (Photo credit: Andrew Jordan)
Bradley Teal Ellis is a New York City-based dance artist and educator specializing in Contact Improvisation. He has researched and practiced Contact Improvisation for 28 years. Since 2009, he has been on faculty at Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for dance and improvisation. Since 2013 he has been teaching at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts/Experimental Theatre Wing, SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Dance, and has served as guest lecturer at Columbia University’s MFA Acting Program. His teaching extends across international contexts—from leading workshops at the International Contact Festival in Freiburg, Germany, to residential intensives in France, Vermont, and Cuba, to facilitating public classes & performance inside MoMA’s galleries during the Judson Dance Theatre: The Work Is Never Done exhibition. Bradley’s pedagogical approach centers on individual embodiment, shaping the attention and relational intelligence, drawing from postmodern dance lineages while remaining grounded in the foundational principles of Contact Improvisation. As a performer, he has created site-specific durational works, collaborated with visual artists, and devised scored improvisation performances with the performance group SetGO. His work explores the intersection of improvisation, ritual, and social engagement, consistently asking how bodies in contact can create spaces of vulnerability, attentiveness, and transformation.
Festival Organizers
Chris Cahoon is an improviser, teacher and facilitator based in Brooklyn, New York. He embraces the “art-sport” approach to Contact Improvisation, where his movement background in team sports meets his early initiations in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique. Chris is curious about the spherical body in space, observing reflexes, and playing with states of physicality. He is influenced by teachers Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Alicia Grayson. Recent teaching engagements include the Freiburg Contact Festival (Germany), La Manzana de Paxton (Mexico), and Earthdance (USA). Chris holds a BA in Rhetoric from Whitman College and was an Artist-in-Residence with the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation in 2019. Chris teaches CI classes and facilitates jams in New York City.
Gabrielle Revlock is a New York City–based performer, improviser, educator, and Bessie Award–winning choreographer whose work is influenced by postmodern dance, experimental theater, conceptual art, and compassionate communication. A practitioner of Contact Improvisation for over twenty years, her teaching spans academic institutions, international festivals, and community-based workshops. Recent teaching engagements include the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (Poland), Brinca Galicia Contact Festival (Spain), Ontario Regional CI Dance Jam, The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Salt Spring Island Contact Improvisation Festival, and Earthdance. Revlock’s writing on the therapeutic applications of Contact Improvisation appears in Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 (Oxford University Press, 2024), and her research has been presented at CI@50, the Embodiment Conference, and the Dance & Somatics Conference. She holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College. (Photo credit: Stephen Texeira)