Since a child, Geneviève Cron has had a passion for gymnastics and dance. During her academic years, she discovered improvisation – in theatre and dance, and in contact improvisation. She has taken part in various performances, mainly outdoors (Tangible, Almasdream, Bidule Box, TAZ, Wysiwyg, and Cie Pas A Pas). She endeavours to discover techniques to improve her contact vocabulary (via numerous international teachers and festivals, Thai massage, tango); body availability (sensorial movement, Bartenieff fundamentals); instant creation skills; “body physicality” (running, gymnastics, martial arts); and “acting” (Augusto Boal's forum theatre , dance theatre).
Geneviève has been teaching improvisation and contact improvisation in regular classes, in one-to-one sessions, and in festivals since 2009. She also teaches acrobatic gymnastics and recuperation for sportsmen and facilitates Underscores. Her teaching focuses on movement appropriation, improvisation, and on seeking the paths of least effort.
David has been practicing and teaching CI since 2005. Having had participated in numerous workshops and festivals in countries such as the U.S., Germany, and Australia, his investigation into the form is influenced by the teachings of Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Tim O’Donnell, Joerg Hassman, and Alejandro Rolandi, and also by movement approaches such as the Alexander Technique, Body-Mind Centering, and Ideokinesis.
David has taught CI classes and workshops in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, and South Korea. He loves to discover the ease and efficiency in moving, and to chance upon the pleasures of not knowing.
Yu Yen-Fang is an independent choreographer, performer, improviser, and dance instructor from Taiwan. She began to study contact improvisation in 2001 and has since performed professionally with dance companies and dance artists in Taiwan, the U.S. and Germany, amongst them most noticeably Bebe Miller Company (U.S.), Ku & Dancers Dance Company (Taiwan), and Staatstheater Kassel (Germany).
As a choreographer, Yu’s work has been presented in the LaMama Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, American Dance Festival, Kumble Theatre of Long Island University, Japan Society, the City Center in New York City, as well as the experimental theater of the National Theater of Taiwan and major theaters in Taiwan.
After returning to Taiwan in 2011, Yu has been teaching contact improvisation, improvisation, and contemporary technique at universities and professional dance companies in Taiwan while continuing to present new work. She holds a BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts and an MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University.
Mingchu “Xiaochu” Yu is a dancer, performer, and improvisation teacher in Taiwan.
Yu enjoys having a close relationship with dance and theatre. In 1999, she joined Ku & Dancers, participating in several outdoor performances. She then went to France, where she studied and worked with different choreographers including Yuko Kametami, Erinc Aslanboga, Simon Williams and Yukiko Murata. She received her MFA from Université Paris Saint-Denis in 2005.
Yu returned to Taipei in 2008 and has since been involved in several interdisciplinary projects, besides working with Ku & Dancers. In 2011, she was invited to ‘i’Trôtra – 8ème Festival International de Danse Contemporaine in Madagascar, and in 2012, to i-Dance Asia Improvisation Art Exchange in Seoul.
