Simone Forti gives a Logomotion workshop that includes a writing session to get the creative juices flowing, while Scott Smith's Materials for Movement: Principles, Practice, and Contact Improvisation gives dancers an opportunity to partner.

Since helping to create contact improvisation in the early 1970s with Steve Paxton and others, Nancy Stark Smith has been traveling the globe, teaching and performing improvisational dance.

July 9-Aug 13, Lewiston, ME: Faculty for the Bates Dance Festival includes Bebe Miller, Jane Comfort, David Dorfman, Scan Curran, Carol Dilley, Steve Koester, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Terry Creach, plus Spanish dance taught by Clara Ramona, jazz technique by Max Stone, contact improvisation by Olivier Besson, ballet by Rachel List, somatics and creative process by Ray Eliot Schwartz, yoga by Tamiko Smith, business of the arts by Kim Konikow, and dance aesthetics by Suzanne Carbonneau.