Andrew Harwood

Andrew de Lotbinière Harwood is a leading international teacher, performer and creator in the field of instantaneous choreography and contact improvisation since 1975.
He is the artistic director of AH HA Productions, a project oriented company dedicated to improvisation. Andrew studied, taught and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in gymnastics, yoga, modern dance, somatic studies, release technique, compositional improvisation and Aikido. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980. Andrew has also taught and performed at many of the international Contact Festivals in Europe over the past 3 years. Harwood danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard and Jean-Pierre Perreault, and continues to collaborate with the Echo Case yearly. He has also collaborated in performance with Marc Boivin, Chris Aiken, Kirstie Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson, Benoit Lachambre, Lin Snelling and Ginette Laurin among many others. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000. He recently taught at CI36, a worldwide gathering of 400 contact improvisers celebrating the 36th anniversary of CI at Juniata College in Pennsylvania.