Organizer Team
Daniel (DeeJay) Hayes – Founder/Assistant Director
Founder of Touch&Play, Dani is also a medical doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist & practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over a decade.
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Moti Zemelman – Touch&Play Director
Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improvisation 30 years ago. Over the past 22 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Central America, Mexico, Europe and Israel.
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Alyssa Lynes (USA) – Teacher Liaison
Alyssa Lynes is a dancer and teacher interested in how communication and creative expression play out in partner dance forms. Alyssa grew up in MA, dancing many performative dance styles
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Z Griss (Zahava) – Diversity Outreach & Support
Z Griss (Zahava) is a kinky, gender transcendent, dancer, coach and director of Do Good Things with Power, a leadership immersion for dance, sexuality, and kink facilitators! Z is currently touring a solo show, Waters of the Soul, and is a contributing author...
Béu Tornaghi (Brazil/USA) – Registrar
Born in BraSil, citizen of the world, Béu has been traveling between the USA, BraSil, and Europe for several years, dancing, offering Somatic Movement Therapy & Education, as well as Translation & Interpreting
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Rob Kancler – Volunteer Coordinator
Rob Kancler is a coach, consultant, movement artist, and troublemaker who holds an interdisciplinary background as a researcher of social and ecological systems, human values and communication. He is most excited to promote personal empowerment through helping people...