IVAN GURIANOV Since he was 18 years old, Ivan was researching movement and dance in multiple forms. For the first time Ivan encountered contact improvisation in 2013, teaching contact improvisation since 2018. He has been teaching Contact Improvisation in Russia, India, Thailand and Indonesia and organising international courses and residencies. Ivan is a passionate practitioner of multiple art forms: music, theatre, butoh, tango and many more, integrating every piece of knowledge into the practice of CI. His unique characteristic is curiosity for self research through direct experience and analytical decomposition of the movement