Toni Craige
🇺🇸Durham, United States
About
Toni Craige started practicing Contact Improvisation in 2006 and has been teaching regularly in the Triangle area of North Carolina since 2012. She co-directs Living Art Collective's Contact Improvisation and Somatics Program in Durham, NC, serving over 80 students per week. As a contact dancer and teacher she is most influenced by Nancy Stark Smith, Alicia Grayson, the Axis Syllabus, and her cherished dance partners in Durham. She completed her MFA in Choreography and Performance at Smith College in 2020, her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at NCSU in 2016, and her BA in Dance at Wesleyan University in 2009. She works with clients 1:1 as a bodywork and movement therapist and somatic coach, and teaches group movement classes building individual and community resilience.