Elise Malafosse

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A French movement practitioner who discovered Contact Improvisation in 2014, with a prior background in communication, semiotics, dance, yoga, and massage. She has extensively studied somatic approaches including Body-Mind Centering (six years), Feldenkrais, Alexander technique, Rolfing, Axis Syllabus, Gaga, and Playfight, and learned Contact Improvisation from teachers including Nita Little, Matthieu Godeau, and Charlie Morrissey. Her teaching centers on somatic practice as re-education, using sensitive language and silence — what she calls "somatic poetry" — to facilitate embodied learning through direct experience rather than theory alone.

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