Open Source Forms / Dancing the Inner Landscape Workshops with Teresa Smith

Movement Laboratory + Somatic Meditations + Bodywork + Dance Improvisation

$20 per workshop (scholarships available)

Register required in advance: [email protected]

(each workshop will cancel one week in advance if registration is low)

Open to people of all abilities and levels of experience.

In Open Source Forms we enter a creative process; letting go of outer layers of holding to find primal energy and ease. Guided by embodied imagery as a powerful tool for transformation we’ll access moving with agility, transparency and depth. Through alignment studies, movement exploration and group improvisation we’ll cultivate a deep connection to our inner and outer environments. In this series we’ll explore three unique states of dancing; I move, it moves me, It moves! A remarkably effective way of learning, the OSF approach can catalyze transformation in many kinds of practice, in unique movement virtuosity, and in daily life.

What to expect:
This is a guided improvisational dance class for all levels of movers, and can be done with any amount of energy. Kinesthetic insight is approached in multi-directional, structural and poetic ways. Partnered bodywork is included to inform our movement explorations. Music and silence is interwoven with (spoken) poetic imagery, deep meditations and active, focused improvisation.

Biography

Teresa Smith brings to her teaching a warm appreciation of each person’s essence and delights in awakening the creative spirit. She is a certified teacher of Open Source Forms™ (Intro – Adv levels), and practiced the root form Skinner Releasing™ for three decades. Through her dance company ‘Earthbody’ she presents performance, artwork and workshops emerging from an intimate conversation with the body, psyche and natural environment. Teresa’s exploration of shifting states of consciousness informs a wide range of her somatic research and knowledge. In addition to teaching OSF, she is a certified teacher of Sufi Dancemeditation™, and a certified facilitator of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork® and Grof® Legacy Breathwork. She also teaches and facilitates contact improvisation, dance composition / improvisation and authentic movement. She has performed internationally in her own work and with La Fura dels Baus, Ellen Webb, Stephanie Skura, Lance Gries, David Hurwith, Yvonne Meier, Kiori Kawai, and in numerous improvisation ensembles and collaborative projects.

(dancer: Teresa Smith, photo by Simone Federman)