Intensive Weekend facilitated by Susanna Hood (bilingual Eng/Fr)
La Poêle studio, Montreal
Nov 20-22, 2020
Friday, 6:30pm-9pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am-2pm
Full price – $105; un/underemployed price: $75
Info and registration: susannahoodhum@gmail.com
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Practice & Process Montreal Oct 30-Nov 1, 2020
Weekend Intensive co-facilitated by Sarah Bild & Susanna Hood (bilingual Eng/Fr)
La Poêle studio, Montreal
Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2020
Friday, 7pm-9:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4pm (with 1hr lunch break)
*COVID alternative dates: Dec 4 – 6, 2020, same hours
Full workshop: $125
Fri night, Sat & Sun 10am-12pm: $65
8-person max, preference given to full workshop participants
Info, registration and payment: lapoele307@gmail.com
Pulling from their practices of Open Source Forms and Action Theater™, Susanna Hood and Sarah Bild will guide us through physical and sensory awakening of the body/mind to prepare us for creative practice. Inviting breath and imagery into the physical self, we will open ourselves to our physical and metaphorical environment and practice noticing, tending to and following creative impulses as they arise, opening a dialogue between inner experience and outer awareness. How does one impulse invite another? How do we give shape to those impulses? How do we embody them for full expression? How do we frame them in space and time? These are questions we will investigate and experience in the afternoon hours.
OSF Beyond Beginnings Online Oct/Nov 2020
10 classes of Intermediate-level OSF material + improvisation
Facilitated by Susanna Hood (bilingual English/French)
Possible as drop-in for those who have experienced OSF basics
Wednesday, 1pm-3pm EST
October 7 – December 9, 2020
Each class: full price – $25; un/underemployed price: $10
Info, registration, and payment: susannahoodhum@gmail.com
OSF Basics Online Oct/Nov 2020
2 series of 5 classes of the early introductory OSF material + improvisation (bilingual English/French)
Facilitated by Susanna Hood
Mondays, 12pm-2pm EST
First series: Oct 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov 2
Second series: Nov 9, 16, 23, 30, Dec 7
Each series: full price – $125; un/underemployed price: $50
Info, registration, and payment: susannahoodhum@gmail.com
13-15 December, 2019: OSF 3-Day Introductory Workshop in Brescia, Italy with Stephanie Skura & Nate Dryden
“Some of the best teaching & guidance I’ve ever received in my dancing/movement life! Don’t miss it.” Jeremy Steward, 2017 Certified OSF teacher
OPEN TO ALL, NO PRIOR OSF EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
13, 14 & 15 December, 2019
Friday, 13 December: 6 – 9 PM
Saturday, 14 December, 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Sunday, 15 December, 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
LOCATION
i.dan.ce
(International Dance Center, formerly called Container12)
Via Giosuè Carducci, 12 / E
2582 Botticino BS
Italy
[Note: Botticino is just east of Brescia]
These sessions are inclusive, welcoming & vitally useful for both newcomers to the practice & experienced practitioners. OSF is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique. We integrate introductory OSF with improvisational experiments developed by Skura over three decades of interdisciplinary choreographic research.
Cost: €150 or €120 if full payment received by 20 November, 2019.
(Participants need to begin on Day 1 & attend consecutive days. Drop-ins OK only with significant experience in OSF or SRT)
Deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), OSF involves shedding outer layers, accessing primal energy, agility navigating subconscious realms, imagery as potent tool for transformation, & developing a high degree of consciousness without self-consciousness. This work celebrates diversity, collaboration & individual empowerment: free of inhibition, accessing intuition, inviting the mind to collaborate. OSF sessions offer potent tools to access freedom, specificity & courage in movement, vocal practice & creative practice. A key aspect is individual creative empowerment as an instigator of positive change on the planet.
“Working with you creatively has instigated some of the most juicy & inspiring dancing times of my life… Offers the range from physical to embodied intellectual to creative composition…So much care & respect for the people with whom you share the learning space.” (OSF Participants)
Contact us with inquiries. We’re happy to hear from you!
June 3 – 14, 2019: OSF Spring Workshop in Seattle with Stephanie Skura & Nate Dryden
“Some of the best teaching & guidance I’ve ever received in my dancing/movement life! Don’t miss it.” Jeremy Steward, 2017 Certified OSF teacher
OPEN TO ALL, NO PRIOR OSF EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!
June 3 – 14, 2019
11 AM – 2 PM, Mon – Fri
19th & Roy, Capitol Hill, Seattle
These sessions are inclusive, welcoming & vitally useful for both newcomers to the practice & experienced practitioners. OSF is deeply rooted in & fluidly expanded from Skinner Releasing Technique. These sessions integrate introductory OSF with improvisational experiments developed by Skura over three decades of interdisciplinary choreographic research.
Now in its sixth year, this annual Seattle spring workshop brings together a worldwide community for dancing, creative practice, & deep immersion — in a catalytic environment of colleagues with diverse experiences in teaching, healing, therapy, performance, theater, visual arts, writing, community-building, & visionary organization-development.
*Partially fulfills prerequisites for OSF Teacher Certification Program.*
Cost: $600 or $500 if nonrefundable deposit of $100 received by April 15, 2019.
Balance due May 15, 2019.
“Working with you creatively has instigated some of the most juicy & inspiring dancing times of my life… Hit the spot by offering the range from physical to embodied intellectual to creative composition…So much care and respect for the people with whom you share the learning space.”
Contact us with inquiries. We’re happy to hear from you!
January 7-11, 2019: 5-morning OSF workshop with Susanna Hood, Vancouver, BC, CANADA
MascallDance presents in partnership with The Training Society of Vancouver:
Open Source Forms with Susanna Hood
January 7-11, 2019, 10am-2pm daily
MascallDance
1130 Jervis Street
V6E 3C7 Vancouver, British Columbia
Early Bird Rate: Up to December 31: $400
From January 1: $500
For those for whom the price is restrictive, there is a 20% off code at checkout: 20OFFHOOD.
(Potential scholarships available for those for whom even the discounted rates are prohibitive. Please contact Alexa Mardon directly if this is the case: alexamardon@gmail.com)
Registration: https://squareup.com/store/MascallDance
This workshop is eligible for a CADA/BC Training Subsidy.
In this five-morning workshop, Susanna offers introductory level OSF material in combination with improvisation structures using movement, voice, drawing, and writing.
The nature of the working process is web-like, cumulative and will happen in layers with no two days exactly the same. Each session is unique and draws on modalities of touch, deep-state imagery, alignment-focused exercises, and scores for improvisation. The sessions promote experiential learning, allowing for the timing of each individual’s process of discovery and integration, working both together and alone but in community. In this way, people of all levels of experience can explore alongside each other, tailoring the work to their individual capacities and needs.
Depending on the interest of participants and guided by their individual experience within the classes, one or two of the sessions may include in-depth discussion into essential concepts and pedagogical principals of OSF.
The class is open to adults of all ages, performers and non-performers alike.
May 30 – June 10, 2016: 10-day OSF & SRT Intensive in Berlin with Susanna Hood & Bettina Neuhaus
BEYOND BEGINNINGS
An integrated practice in Open Source Forms (OSF) & Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)
with Susanna Hood & Bettina Neuhaus
Join us for this first time meeting of SRT & OSF. If you’re interested in OSF Teacher Certification in Europe and haven’t experienced this level of the work, this workshop is a prerequisites for applicants!
30 May – 10 June, 2016 (10-day workshop, 4 hrs/day, weekend off)
Mon, Tues, Thurs 10.00 – 14.00 Wed & Fri 10.30 – 14.30
EDEN Studios, Breite Strasse 43/13187 BERLIN
Cost: €450
€50 Early Bird Discount for registration & payment before 1 April, 2016
Limited class size – Book early! (Priority given to those who commit to taking the full workshop)
To register please send a mail to info@bettinaneuhaus.com
Deadline for registration (including full payment) is May 8, 2016
Specifically designed for those with a foundation in SRT and/or OSF, this intensive is a rare opportunity to deepen one’s practice through the more advanded material from the basic releasing work – week 2 & 3 – and to expand this into creative process. Each day will comprise a 2.5 hour releasing class, alternating daily betwen SRT and OSF, followed by a 75-minute integration of this material with improvisation, voice work, and writing and drawing practices.
In essence it is an advanced course: more an in-depth study than simply a series of classes. In order to begin an Open Source Forms Teacher Certification Program in Europe in 2017, we’re offering this workshop so enough people can complete the prerequisites for this rigorous & gratifying teacher training.
Of course if you’re not planning to do OSF Teacher Certification, you’re very welcome to join — & move deeper & farther on your path within this work.
Prerequisites for this workshop are having experienced at least a week of Open Source Forms or Skinner Releasing.
January 11 – 15, 2016: Freedom + Rigor + Courage with Stephanie Skura in New York City
MOVEMENT RESEARCH WINTER MELT FESTIVAL
January 11 – 15, 2016
Monday – Friday, 1 – 3 PM
New York, NY
Cross-fertilizations of releasing technique & creative process catalyze creative work. Approaches derived from 30 evolving years of rehearsal process celebrating diversity, collaboration, & individual creative empowerment: free of inhibition, wildly intuitive, inviting mind to collaborate. Access conceptual freedom, specificity, courage & honesty in movement, vocal practice, & improvisation. Adopt these methods & discover your own. Experiment with surprising pathways between conscious & subconscious, movement/voice/writing/drawing, witnessing & participating. With radical approaches to scores as fertile path toward content-relevant method & structure, integrating intuitive with analytical. Trusting our inner world, accessing technique as resource & having the courage to transcend it in our unfettered presence.
July 31 – August 6, 2015: OSF Retreat Week with Stephanie Skura in western Wales
July 31 – August 6, 2015
Arrivals: 4pm Friday, July 31
Departure: 2pm Thursday, August 6
6-day workshop in a forest studio, staying in woodland cabins, to immerse in Open Source Forms & creative process. Experiencing the subtle ways being in nature attunes us to deeper ease with creative process. Open to all.
5 minutes from Mwnt, one of “Europe’s top ten loveliest hidden beaches.” For photos & more about Felinganol retreat:
http://www.yogawithmeriel.co.uk/felinganol-woodland-retreat-penparc-cardigan
This workshop is now full! Email Meriel (address below) to be on the waiting list.
Accommodation & Fee Options:
Shared room (3 beds): £305pp
Shared cabin (twin): £335pp
Double cabin (2 people sharing double bed): £335pp
Single Cabin: £400pp
Pricing includes all tuition, free use of studio, lands, fire circle, hot tub, simple breakfast & dinner on the first night. Meals are self-catered with house kitchen open to prepare and share ‘pot-luck’ meals together.
Places reserved by deposit £75 (non-refundable). 10% early-bird reduction for full payment before April 31st 2015.
Student discounts available.
Booking enquiries & registration: merielgoss@hotmail.com