LEVYdance Guest Artist Cookie Harrist is a dancer and vocalist based in San Francisco. She has performed in works by Joe Goode, Sara Shelton Mann, Larry Arrington, NAKA Dance Theatre, Catherine Galasso, Public Movement, and others. She teaches release technique and contact improv at ODC. Her own artistic/political work fights the culture of sexual assault in contact improv, as featured in the latest article of Contact Quarterly.