Nica Portavia is an Italian dancer, teacher and researcher of Contact Improvisation, who fell in love with Contact Improvisation very early on. She mainly trained with teachers including Steve Paxton, Daniel Lepkoff, Charlie Morrissey, Angelika Doney, Asaf Bacharach, KJ Holmes, Anya Cloud. She is an organizer of national and international dance events, including the Italycontactfest (International CI Festival which takes place in Italy and has now reached its tenth edition:  www.italycontactfest.com); Being Touch Festival (www.beingtouch.org), and as part of a group the Ecite 2022 Portugal, she is also a communicator for the CI Global Calendar project. More info at https://nica-portavia-dancer.jimdosite.com/project