Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood
🇨🇦Montreal, Canada
About
Leading figure in dance improvisation, celebrating 50 years as an internationally recognized pioneer of Contact Improvisation and master teacher/performer in real-time composition and CI. Studied and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Nita Little, Kurt Siddall, and Daniel Lepkoff, the original developers of CI. Danced for the companies of Marie Chouinard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Jo Lechay, Joint Forces, and Fulcrum, and with the improvisational collectives Discovery Bal, The Echo Case, and The Improvisational Movement Fund. Founder and artistic director of AH HA Productions (2000-2014). Extensive collaborations worldwide with artists including Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Peter Bingham, Kirstie Simson, Julyen Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, K.J. Holmes, Alito Alessi, Karen Nelson, Benno Voorham, Benoît Lachambre, Marc Boivin, and Lin Snelling.