Ester Momblant Ribas

Spain
Year of starting to practice
1997
Year of starting to teach
2000
Ester Momblant Ribas

Dancer, teacher and mother. Her academic training was at Univercity College Chichester (England), at the School for New Dance Development -S.N.D.O.- (Holland) and she recently graduated from the Institut del Teatre de Vic. Since 1997 Ester has worked in the field of Somatic Education and Body Consciousness applying these disciplines to Contact Improvisation (CI), to Improvised Dance and to the development of the personal process, working with music, dance and theater performers. He has practiced in Europe, Russia, Brazil, and Israel. In 2008 he trained with Nancy Stark Smith in her three-week course in Massachusetts (USA). Later, together with Nancy, he participated in various research projects (Barcelona/Paris) on the Underscore. Since 2004 she has been a teacher of body awareness and dance at the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona. 'For me, Contact Improvisation is research in motion: simultaneous dialogue between body, consciousness and the environment'.

Significant teachers
Nancy Stark Smith and others