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 based in Montreal and dedicated to improvisation as a practice and a performing art.

Andrew studied extensively, taught and performed with Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Nita Little, the founding members of Contact Improvisation. He also has a background in gymnastics, athletics, Yoga, contemporary dance, Release Technique, somatic studies and Aikido. His work has been presented in numerous international festivals since 1980. Andrew danced for the companies of Fulcrum, Jo Lechay, Marie Chouinard and Jean-Pierre Perreault, and with the improvisational ensembles The Echo Case and Discovery Bal. He has also collaborated in performance with Marc Boivin, Peter Bingham, Lin Snelling, Benoît Lachambre, Chris Aiken, Kirstie Simson, Ray Chung, Lisa Nelson and Paula Zacharias among many others.

Additionally, Harwood has taught advanced workshops and performed at many major Contact Improvisation festivals in the past few years: Freiburg Contact Festival (Germany), Moscow Contact Festival, Israeli Contact Festival, Zip Contact Festival (Italy), Kontact Budapest (Hungary), Trans Contact Festival (Romania).He has also taught classes to the world renowned companies of O’ Vertigo and Marie Chouinard in Montréal as well as the fabulous Montréal Circus group called Les Sept Doigts de la Main. He is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline-Lemieux award for the year 2000.