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Rosemary Hannon danced with Alma Esperanza Cunningham (AEC) Movement
throughout the bay area from 2002-2007, at the State Theater in Austin,
Texas, for Movement Research at Judson Church in NYC, and at the Joyce
SoHo in NYC. In 2005 and 2006 she performed with Scott Wells and
Dancers. She has also performed with Body Cartography in various
site-specific projects, and with Katarina Erickson at Moment's Notice
improvisation salon. She has also taught dance to children since 1996
and holds a Master's degree in education.

Vitali Kononov is a teacher, massage therapist, somatic movement
educator and movement artist working with improvisation as a performance
discipline and as a contemplative practice. He was born in
St-Petersburg, Russia, in 1966. He has been teaching contact
improvisation since 1997 in Russia, Europe, USA and Mexico. He studied
contemporary dance, physical theater, contact and ensemble
improvisation, Somatic Movement Therapy. He taught at Moving On Center -
School for Participatory Arts and Somatic Research since 2002. He was a
faculty member of ADF (2003-04). He is a Somatic Movement Therapist and
has a private bodywork practice in Berkeley, California.

Rosemary and Vitali began an on-going dance partnership teaching and
performing at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina, the West
Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Moment's Notice and Counterpulse
in San Francisco. In 2007 Vitali and Rosemary formed NoNo Dance Unit, a
performing dance collective investigating improvisation and somatics.

 

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