Dolores Dewhurst-Marks is an artist working with poetry,
dance improvisation, performance, and space making for personal and
collective insight, growth, and transformation. Co-directing and curating Art
Continuum Nomadic Residency, Reverse Rivers Company, Being Nature
project, and Towards Centre for the practice and research of Contact
Improvisation.

In an ongoing collaboration with Sasha Dodo,

They are currently working on creating Towards Foundation, the purpose
of which is to support the Towards Centre in developing and cultivating
a non-competitive, inspiring, and collaborative environment based on
principles and values of extended care, embodied awareness, tolerance,
mutual empowerment, independent thinking, and creative agency.

In their organizational and artistic work, Contact Improvisation often
serves as the under-lining connective tissue and source of inspiration,
and it is one the central mediums for their artistic expression. They are
interested in encompassing and connecting practitioners to the past,
present, and potential future of the form. And continuing to share
inspirations from their own field of research about deeper integrity
of action; the state in which attention, imagination and intuition are
embodied in the process of improvisation and self is being expressed
as an omnidirectional, collaborative and creative space of expanded
awareness. In recent years they have been experimenting with placing
the practice in the context of nature.

She is co-organizer of Thailand Contact Improvisation Conference
2020-2021, Towards CI50/51 Contact Improvisation Conference 2022-
2023, Being Nature Gathering 2022, Being Nature Artistic Residency 2024,
Towards 6/9 week CI Focused Jam 2023-2024, and Quiet and Wild Jam
2019-2024

More information:

https://towards.contact/
http://reverserivers.com/
https://artcontinuum.space
https://www.beingnature.space

Significant teachers

Her work with CI is influenced by the work of artists and teachers: Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Anna Halprin, Kirstie Simson, Ekaterina Basalaeva, Ming-Shen Ku, Anjelika Doniy, Lalitaraja Joachim Chandler.