Nita Little
🇺🇸Seattle, United States
About
An activist for relational intelligence through improvisational dance practices that began with the emergence and development of Contact Improvisation in 1972, a path provoked by Steve Paxton. One of the only remaining teaching members of the initial core of Contact Improvisation pioneers. As a performer, choreographer, and dance theorist, Nita received her PhD in Performance Studies in 2014. She teaches internationally at dance companies, festivals, conferences and universities. Her writing investigates ecological actions of attention and the creative potentials present in entangled relations. She directs the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC), an international network of dance research ensembles.