About me
At my first CI event in 2013, I fell in love with dance. Since then, The freedom I find in Contact Improvisation allows me to rediscover it again and again.

My name is Yoad Leader. I am a dancer, artist, therapist and vegan activist.

I hold a bachelor in movement from the Jerusalem Academy of Dance (JAMD) and the University of the Arts in Berlin(HZT).

I also love to sing and I have a dream of building my home from wood and mud.

My approach to CI
My main goal is to enjoy dancing.
It’s pleasant to arrive at unknown places in the dance. It’s research that excites me.
Through movement and hands-on practices, and by staying aware of my choices and responses, new and surprising ways of moving together emerge.

I like it when there’s a common ground of attention to be together - through images, physical principles, and improvisational guidelines. But also through beautiful confusion and chaos.

I believe CI is suitable for everybody

Before studying dance, I completed a degree in Engineering (and I worked as Math and Physics teacher), and a degree in Spanish Language and Literature (and I also wrote several short stories, poems and even two novels).

And finally I started off with contemporary dance more than sixteen years ago. I completed a one-year contemporary dance training program at Amelia Caravaca Dance Studio in Madrid (where I started to dance contact improvisation), followed by another year-long training plan at Carmen Senra Dance Academy. Over the next five years I was involved in dance initiatives (like organizing CI jams, or creating and performing dance pieces) while studying contemporary dance within the training program at Descalzinha Danza in Madrid.

Since I am based in Berlin I have participated in several performances and I have been giving contact improvisation classes, organizing CI events, and hosting contact jams in Marameo, Phynixtanz, and Interkukturelles Haus Pankow, among others.

As a result of all of this I have a very wide and different approach to contact improvisation. I have a very clear focus in the physical aspects of dancing CI and, at the same time, I like to introduce compositional, performative and narrative elements into the practice of CI. 

On top of that, I consider consent as a fundamental principle (if not the most fundamental one) of the practice of CI. 

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