K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist, singer and actor based in Brooklyn NY who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She teaches, choreographs and performs at festivals, universities and venues throughout the world, as a soloist and in her collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith), Body of Truth and in the work of Steve Paxton.

Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering (r), Yoga (certified teacher 2007), Authentic movement, Ideokinesis, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. A 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering, K.J. is adjunct faculty at New York University Experimental Theater Wing, is an ongoing teacher Movement Research NYC and has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Re-integration.

K.J. recently completed a two year acting training of Sanford Meisner technique at the William Esper Studio in NYC and is developing an evening length piece entitled This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles) which looks at where the body and linguistics meet.