Olivier Besson

Olivier Besson has been involved with the study and experimentation of improvisation and contact improvisation (CI) since 1980. He is a Boston based improviser whose performance work has been presented in Japan, Russia, France, Taiwan, India and throughout the US. He currently is an associate professor of dance teaching improvisation and CI full time at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He has been on faculty at Canal Danse (Paris), Centre National des Arts du Cirque, Bates Dance Festival, Emerson College and the School of Fine Arts at Boston University.