#57 - Alicia Grayson

Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for the past 33 years. She has taught CI as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI classes in Boulder, CO, yoga and pilates online and regularly travels nationally and internationally to teach. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and pilates and her love of nature are important influences on her dancing and teaching. She facilitates women’s somatically based transformational workshops online and in person. She is a certified Hakomi therapist, certified perinatal somatic attachment therapist and certified Feminine Power transformational coach and facilitator. She is currently training to be a biodynamic breath and trauma release practitioner. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to contact improvisation and related disciplines and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship. She is dedicated to supporting her fellow humans to be the most amazing embodied beings that we are! www.aliciagrayson.com In this conversation, Alicia reflects on the principle of knowing where the earth is at all times in Contact Improvisation, and in all movement. She discusses creativity being an emergence as opposed to something to control or force. She also shares how something deeply familiar can still feel brand new. And, Alicia and Kyle talk about their mutual love of mistakes, accidents, and imperfections.