GREAT ROOM – Open Source Forms / Teresa Smith

$20 per workshop (scholarships available). Register in advance at [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 explore 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! The OSF approach can be used in many kinds of practice, movement, and daily life.

What to expect:
- A guided improvisational dance class for all levels of movers, adaptable to any amount of energy.
- Kinesthetic insight approached in multi-directional, structural, and poetic ways.
- Partnered bodywork to inform movement explorations.
- Music and silence interwoven with spoken poetic imagery, deep meditations, and active, focused improvisation.

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 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 and 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.