Welcome to Faces of CI ~ conversations in Contact Improvisation. I am delighted to be joined by my first contact teacher, Olivia Shaffer, dancer and assistant director at EDAM Dance Company. In this episode, we chat about her journey from ballet to Europe to contact to finding her voice, correcting "doing" in contact, staying curious when injured with scores of limitation, pilates and Feldenkrais, dancing as a contact company performance artist, moving grief into art through her choreography work, and wrestling and flying in childhood as precusors to contact. Find out more about her classes and work at www.oliviashaffer.ca and edamdance.org // Follow Faces of CI online // Instagram @facesofci Upcoming workshops by Aalia https://linktree.com/facesofci Photo by Hilary Maxwell. This episode was recorded at EDAM Dance in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.