Keith Hennessy, MFA, PhD dances in and around performance. Born in Sudbury Canada, he lives in San Francisco since 1982 and tours internationally. He started dancing CI in Montréal in 1979 and has been practicing-teaching-studying-critiquing improvised dance and CI cultures ever since. Keith's doctoral research is a critical race and queer analysis of CI, which is summarized in the zine Questioning Contact Improvisation. Practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, contemporary dance, activist art, the Bay Area, wicca, punk, CI, indigeneity, and queer-feminism motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s work. Prioritizing collaboration, often across lines of difference, Keith’s recent collaborators include Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Casel, Snowflake Towers (Yoeme, Mayan), Starhawk, the punk band Hemorage, and the BIPOC collaboratives Blank Map and Circle X. Keith's writings have been published in CQ, Movement Research, community dance blogs and several academic journals. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband with Sara Shelton Mann. Hennessy is a co-founder of CounterPULSE (formerly 848 Community Space) a thriving performance space in San Francisco.

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