About Angie & Chris

Angie Hauser is a “Bessie” Award-winning performer, choreographer, and director with training in modern and postmodern dance, ballet, and contact improvisation. Her research focuses on the creation and performance of dances for the stage, and it is grounded in the interrogation and practice of movement, improvisation, and collaboration. Hauser is a long-time collaborator with the celebrated Bebe Miller Company. For over 20 years, Hauser has created collaborative multidisciplinary performances with dance artist Chris Aiken. They have toured their work and teaching extensively throughout the US and abroad, including iDance (Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Contact Festival Freiburg. She is a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts, where she directs the Graduate Program in Dance.

Chris Aiken is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of dance improvisation and contact improvisation. His approach has been guided by the effort to link one’s poetic sensibilities with the capacity to engage ecologically through perception, action, and imagination. In this sense, ecology includes the self and others, non-human beings, and the world. It also includes culture and human artifacts. Chris has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists, including Angie Hauser, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung, Patrick Scully, Olivier Besson, and Steve Paxton. His work has been shaped by years of practice in the Alexander Technique, Gyrokinesis, ideokinesis, yoga, and fascial bodywork and movement training. He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at Smith College.

angiehauser.com
smith.edu/people/chris-aiken

photo: Jonathan Hsu