Karl Frost (California/Germany) has been teaching and performing contact and related work in body-based creative process since the 80s in California and is the director of Body Research Physical Theater. He has shared his work in over 25 countries and is recognized for his dynamic and articulate movement style and teaching, rigor in physical research, and for the edge-pushing nature of his work in both practice and performance. Influenced by studies in contemporary release technique, Alexander technique, somatic psychology, paratheatrical work, and martial arts, his performance work takes the body and emotionally and physically felt experience as their reference points, often framed in highly interactive postdramatic installation. Some of his projects include Axolotl, an interactive performance work in which the audience is blindfolded for 2 hours of exploration, and the Dancing Wilderness Project, exploring the interconnections of quiet experience of nature, boody-based creative process, and how we choose to live our lives. He is also an academic, with an MFA in Dramatic Arts and a PhD in Ecology, has collaborated in the Cultural Evolution Lab (University of California, Davis), and is currently living in Leipzig, Germany, working as an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture.

Of Body Research performing work … ’something startling but strangely beautiful to behold. Molly Rhodes, SF Weekly, San Francisco, August 07

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within contact: Sara Shelton Mann, Robert Funk, Catherine Duncan, John Le Fan from outside of contact: John Ingle (Alexander Technique), Bira Almeida (Mestre Acordeon... Capoeira), Barbara Mahler (Klein release technique)