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Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood

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514-523-4360

Contact: AH HA PRODUCTIONS

1835, Rue Gauthier
Montreal, QC, H2K 1A1,

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Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is a leading international teacher, performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography and contact improvisation since 1975. He is the artistic director of AH HA Productions, a project oriented company dedicated to improvisation as a performing art form. Andrew studied, taught and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in gymnastics, yoga, modern dance, somatic studies, release technique, compositional improvisation and Aikido. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980. Andrew danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard and Jean-Pierre Perreault, and continues to collaborate with the Echo Case yearly. He has also collaborated in performance with Chris Aiken, Kirstie Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Benoit Lachambre, Lin Snelling, Joerg Hassman and Mirva Mäkinen among many others. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.
Harwood attended five major Contact Improvisation festivals in the past 3 years (Trans Contact Festival in Romania, Israeli Contact Festival, Kontact Budapest in Hungary, Freiburg Contact Festival in Germany and Zip Contact Festival in Italy, and recently returned from CI36, where he taught advanced classes to many avid practitionners and teachers of the form and performed with other international Contact artists.