Martin Keogh

Martin sitting

Martin Keogh has taught and performed contact improvisation for over twenty-six years. He is one of the original members of the Motivity Dance Company, which specializes in aerial dancing on low level trapezes. Martin founded The Dancing Ground, an organization that produces conferences on gender, race and mythology in Northern California. He worked as consultant with Touchdown Dance USA, an organization that teaches C.I. to the blind. For his contribution to the development of Contact Improvisation Martin is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and listed in Who’s Who in the World. He has taught in 68 cities in 18 countries on four continents. When not on tour, Martin lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.

More info at: www.martinkeogh.com

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Yield. Contact improvisation duet,
WCCIF 2007
(West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival)

Yield at WCCIF 2007 from Vitali Kononov on Vimeo.

Performed by Rosemary Hannon and Vitali Kononov.
Music by Fred Frith.
Camera by Ralf Jaroshinski