BODY AND SOUL: Stephanie Skura: intention and surrender

 

Left: Stephanie Skura in her solo Sacrilege is Needed. Competency is Hell. Woman in orange jeans and red shirt with tasseled waistband, hands splayed and reddish hair akimbo. (Photo: Ian Douglas) Right: Skura's selfie. Woman with slight smile and knitted black-and-red wool hat with knitted red wool flower.

Bessie Award-winning Stephanie Skura is widely noted not only for her long career as a performer, maker, and teacher of post-modern dance but for being a magical catalyst for other artists' creativity. In today's talk, she shares how her imaginative practice, called scores, opens up liberating possibilities. For Skura, dance is a path to consciousness; a method to access the balancing, healing capacity of intuition; a way to play her role in repairing the world.                               

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Wendy Perron, shadow of Juliette Mapp, and Stephanie Skura in Surreptitious Preparations for an Impossible Total Act, directed and scored by Skura. Two women in mid-motion stillnesses against a back wall, their gazes directed in different directions, with shadow of a third person looming large against the wall. (Photo: Anja Hitzenberger)

 

BIO: Stephanie Skura, ‘major American experimentalist‘ (Patsy Tarr) inaugural 1984 Bessie award-winner, is a choreographer/director/performer/teacher/teacher-trainer/writer. She has performed taught dance performance for over three decades in fifteen countries. With deep respect for individual diversity subconscious realms, she navigates boundaries intersections of dance, poetry and performance, and is passionate about empowering performers. Guided by integration of body/mind/heart, creativity technique, form content, art healing, she is committed to collaboration, multidisciplinary art and lifelong experiment. Recent work integrates radically visceral approaches to language voice. In 2008, she instigated Open Source Forms, a practice and Teacher Certification Program addressing deep commonalities of Skinner Releasing Technique and creative process. Formerly a New Yorker directing a touring dance company, she lives near Seattle where she’s become care-giver for her domestic partner. Having often regarded dance as a last stage before full-on spiritual practice, she now sees it all coalescing as soul-growing pursuits. www.stephanieskura.com