Gerry Morita (BA, MFA) is an Edmonton-based dancer, choreographer, instructor and Artistic Director of Mile Zero Dance. She has been studying and working with contact improvisation for twenty-five years, studying with several of the form's originators directly. Her work involves finding fluid and natural ways to open the body's receptiveness, martial arts techniques, and using the dancers' originality. She has received the Edmonton Artist Trust Fund, and was noted as one of Alberta's 25 most influential artists by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.