Itay Yatuv is the Artistic Director of the Hakvutza Dance School, and has been practising and teaching contact improvisation (CI) worldwide for over a decade. Itay trained as a contemporary dancer in New York, U.S; Italy, and Israel; then went on to independently choreograph in the last ten years, leading several international projects of improvisational performances. Itay has been training in Aikido for the past six years, a practice he integrates into his CI research. 

Most recently, he has been conducting CI workshops for little children and their parents in developing the ContaKids method. As a dance researcher and explorer of CI, Itay has been investigating the various possibilities—and experimenting with different forms—of movement that two human bodies can have together in space, much of which have been incorporated into the practice of Contakids in the four years he has worked on it.

Itay Yatuv (Founder)