biographies

k j holmes

K.J. Holmes is an independent dancer, singer, poet and body worker who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981, as a soloist and in her collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith), Stephanie Maher and in the work of Steve Paxton. She teaches, directs and performs at festivals, universities and venues throughout the world including Jerwood Space, London; P.A.R.T.S., Brussels; ImpulsTanz, Vienna; EDDC, Arnhem, among many others. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body Mind Centering , Yoga, Authentic Movement, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. A 1999 graduate of the certificate program of the School for Body-Mind Centering, K.J. is adjunct faculty at New York University¹s Experimental Theater Wing, continues to teach in NYC through Movement Research (where she was an artist in residence 1993-94) as well as at Trisha Brown studio and Panetta Movement Center. She has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-Integration in Brooklyn, New York, where she lives. K.J. is currently developing Constellation, a performance piece with trumpet and dance and Objects of a Borrowed Confession, a dance theater piece from the poems of Julie Carr. She is a member of Body of Truth, an improvisation collective which also includes Kate Brown, Henry Montes, Christoph Lechner, Charlie Morrissey and Scott Smith.

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