CURRENT MISSION

Finding interfaces, learning, and giving back. (Contact impro and bodywork at the moment, mostly)

ABOUT ME

A computer engineer involved in contemporary dance and performing.

PHILOSOPHY

Everything is connected.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been offered couches and sleeping places when I needed, and gave it back when I could.
The best ones were in 1997 and 2004, both times I was planning to sleep in a park (Bruxelles first, Berlin second); it started pouring. Someone offered me to sleep at their place.
Thank you.

Interests

Dance, bodywork, juggling, cognitive psychology, meeting interesting people (and finding what's interesting in most people), learning, teching, languages.
Travelling is kind of a cliché...

• singing
• dancing
• cooking
• traveling
• juggling
• engineering
• languages
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
The pillow book (Greenaway), Blues Brothers, Young Frankestein, Blade Runner, Buffalo 66, Being John Malkovich, The ethernal sunshine blah blah, Before sunrise (and Before sunset was not too bad, but I would not see it again), Mononoke Hime, some things from Kaurismaki, Tierra y Liberta, Carusco Paskosky di padre polacco (Muti), Before the rain, Underground, Hong Kong Express, Solaris, Ghost Busters, A fish called Wands, anything from the Monthy Pythons, Brazil (Terry Gilliam), Train Spotting...
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Books:
Jared Diamond, Guns, germs and steel.
Chomsky, anything
Alan Watts, anything but mostly The way of Zen
Ursula Leguin, everything but above all Dispossessed: an ambiguous Utopia
Terry Pratchett, everything
Neil Gaiman, ditto
Good Omens über alles
Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Marques, 100 años de soledad
Haruki Murakami, everything but specially Dance Dance Dance
Veronesi, Benni, Pennac, Süskind, Hesse (but not much, now), Böll, Tove Jansson, Kundera (some things)....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Isn't everything amazing?

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching.
Randomly: internet search and savvy (I used to worf for yahoo). UNIX. Compu thingies in general.
Juggling (poi, staff, contact).
Contact Improvisation.
Bodywork (Thai and Swedish massage, mostly).
Cooking, mostly Italian style.
Other random things.

Learn: most dance forms. Storytelling. Singing.

Share: everything (but underwear, and my favourite fragile fire tools)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Laos, Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Thailand, Viet Nam