Somatic Movement Practices in 2009 include:
-  Continuum               -  Contact Improvisation (Rajendra Serber Thurs & Sat)     
-  Liquid Body              - Moving Theater        -  Body-Mind Centering              
-  Ideokinesis               - Laban/Bartenieff       -  Tamalpa Experiencing
-  Yoga                        -  Improvisation            -  Performance Laboratory   

Artists include:
-  Emilie Conrad/Full   - Teri Carter                -  Rima Miller
-  Caryn Heilman         -  Jones Welsh            -  Gabriel Orshan
-  Camille Maurine       -  Liz Maxwell               - Daphne Georghiou     
-  Holly Rothschild       
-  Rajendra Serber: now teaching Thurs & Sat!  schedule change     

presented by:
Curated and Produced by Teri Carter and Intention Dance Theatre
EMBODYMENT PERFORMANCES (click here)
SOMA Fest Performances present Kinesthetically charged contemporary and improvisational work
from National and Local Artists.  Performances are geared toward Conscious Embodiment as the
artist's inquiry takes on the multiple challenges of skill, aesthetics, presence in the artist's internal
world through tracking sensation and tissue change, while being aware of the external environment
of the stage, other performers, audience members, and the world at large!  The audience plays a
participatory role with this visceral performance approach.
Workshops, Performances, Performance Lab, Panel Discussions & Jams
Conscious Embodiment in Practice & Performance
produced by:
supported in part by:
Somatic Movement Arts Festival, L.A.
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WORKSHOPS (click here)
The 2nd annual SOMA Fest features artists from across the U.S., offering opportunities for
Individuals from all walks of life to deepen Kinestheic Capacity, Presence, Self Discovery, Creativity
and Ease-of-Movement.   Somatic practices help amplify body-mind awareness and physical
performance.   Key for dancers, movers, actors, performers and somatic practitioners in learning to
enhance sensory integration, fluid strength,
 inner spaciousness, and articulation.  Explore how
somatic experiencing awakens your inner world for a more profound connection with the performing
environment and the world at large.  A superb way to bring awareness to oneself and the world.
October 6-11, 2009
How do we creatively sustain embodied interaction with our surroundings while connecting
with our internal kinesthetic experience?
 In its third year, this pioneering event enhances
somatic awareness in practice, performance and daily life. Fostering physical and
perceptual transformation, individuals from all walks of life learn to deepen creativity,
presence, articulation, self discovery, internal spaciousness, sensory integration, and
liquid strength.  We'll explore how somatic experiencing awakens our inner world for a
more profound connection with the performing environment and the world at large.
SOMA fest
*Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th Street
*Continuum Studio #7, 1629 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
New Collaborative
Performance Lab!
An opportunity to work
co-creatively with a small
group of participants led by
SOMA Fest Artist/Faculty.

Bring seeds of ideas for
somatic performance
works, develop ideas and
learn from each other,
culminating in a night of
performance.

Limited Space
Sign up Early...

One Scholarship
Available for the
Performance Lab
The world's first
Somatic Movement
Arts Festival geared
toward performance

"These performers
are a breed apart"
Lewis Segal,
L.A. Times
The term
SOMA
refers to
“the body
experienced
from within.”