WINTER/SPING 2026
________________________
Self Center Sensuality
A weekend INTEnsive THAT EXPLORES THE SPACE of your own senSuality
Led By Asteria Howard
WHEN & WHERE
January 17th &18th
11 AM – 4 PM At BodyVox Dance Center
Self-centered Sensuality is a movement based intensive created by Asteria and draws from her 20 years as a movement instructor. Learn how to tap into your own sensuality through movement and reflection. She believes in facilitating safe creative containers for artists to slow down and focus on the introspective. To remove any expectations of producing an end product and instead listening to what the body wants in real time. This allows movers to remove any constraints and to lean into the now. By removing our perceived limitations, it allows for investigative movement into how we as individuals experience sensuality.
Each day begins with a slow grounding warmup that builds into standing. Followed by exercises and movement phrases to play with our introspection. As the class progresses, we start to draw awareness into the space around us and eventually between us. There will be reflective pauses and occasional discussions to reflect and journal feelings that come up. The end of the day will take us back to the ground for a decompression and internal check out.
Elements of guided freestyling will be strongly used. All levels of movement are encouraged to attend.
*Open to individuals of all movement backgrounds and levels.
COST $250
Limited Scholarships & Subsidies Available
Email Katherine at katherineftgu@gmail.com to request financial support, make payment or if you have any other questions.
IN PROCESS:
AN Intimate Writing collective
A Bi-weekly session for artists working with language
(Fiction, Non-ficton, Poetry, Playwriting)
Facilitated by Katherine Murphy Lewis
when & where
Hybrid (Zoom & In Person @ Portland Playhouse)
Starting Feb 8th, 2026
Meeting Every Other(ish) Sunday 11am-1pm
Are you currently working on a project? Do you find the writing process isolating? Are you looking to create in community? Are you stuck in your own process and looking for a creative support?
Each session will be broken up into two parts.
Part one Katherine will facilitate a writing exorcise(s), a warm up followed by core prompt. This first hour will conclude with 15 minutes of open share time- reflections - and reflective feedback.
Part two 3 of 6 total artists will have 20 minutes to share and get focused feedback on their individual work. This feedback will be framed and facilitated by Katherine.
Katherine brings over ten years of experience facilitating and leading artist through new work creation. Utilizing her expansive curriculum Katherine will create a dynamic intimate cohort of 6 Artist’s.
If you are in need of a space to expand and deepen you writing practice this is the series for you!
Katherine’s Bio
Katherine Murphy Lewis has over 10 years of experience directing, dramaturgy, and new work creation. As the founding Artistic Director of From the Ground UP, she has ushered in over 60 new works.
Crafting her own innovative approach to nonprofit leadership and new work creation she has developed a model that puts artists' authentic voices and expressions in the forefront by creating a space for individuals to develop stewardship over their artistry, careers and lives.
Katherine had enjoyed collaborating locally and internationally, including being and in residence with Company of Wolves in Glasgow Scotland, touring Achilles throughout Europe. Locally she co-wrote and co-produced, Tonight Nothing, which premiered at CoHo Production’s summer of 2019. Most recently she produced, dramturged and directed You Can’t Be Serious. Since the world premier in November 2023 You Can’t Be Serious has on to tour regionally and nationally, receiving rave reviews and winning best physical theater at Untied Solo, the largest solo festival in the work in NYC.
*Open to all individuals of any background, no experience necessary.
COST $375
Limited Scholarships & Subsidies Available
Email Katherine at katherineftgu@gmail.com to request financial support, make payment or if you have any other questions.
————-
Limited Scholarships & Subsidies Available
Email Katherine at katherineftgu@gmail.com to request financial support, make payment or if you have any other questions.
SOLO
CREATING NEW WORK FOR SOLO PERFORMANCE
A week intensive that traverses the early fragile stages of new solo work creation. Taking you from idea to reality. FOSTERING each Artist’s unique voice TO BRING IT fully to life.
Led by Katherine Murphy Lewis
when & where
CoHo Productions
MARCH 2026
DATES/TIMES TBA
Registration Opens January 1st, 2026
What is the gravitational pull of your work? What story do you keep telling over and over? What makes your story compelling and urgent?
Grounded in the practices from devising, viewpoints, autobiographical theater, moment work and movement/body based storytelling, Katherine brings her unique process of new art creation to the craft of solo performance.
We will explore the craft of solo performance. In this week long intensive Katherine will take you from the ‘idea’ to a fully formed vision.
Solo performance creates the possibility of innovative storytelling, fully utilizing the potential of the performance space. You will create a variety of writing, movement sequences, audio content creation, theatrical moments and visual images, sifting through each piece to discover your voice and unearth your story.
Harnessing the magic of the theatrical space, inviting the unusual, expanding on what is unique to each participants vision, as we push against the boundaries of performance and story.
Katherine’s Bio
Katherine Murphy Lewis has over 10 years of experience directing, dramaturgy, and new work creation. As the founding Artistic Director of From the Ground UP, she has ushered in over 60 new works.
Crafting her own innovative approach to nonprofit leadership and new work creation she has developed a model that puts artists' authentic voices and expressions in the forefront by creating a space for individuals to develop stewardship over their artistry, careers and lives.
Katherine had enjoyed collaborating locally and internationally, including being and in residence with Company of Wolves in Glasgow Scotland, touring Achilles throughout Europe. Locally she co-wrote and co-produced, Tonight Nothing, which premiered at CoHo Production’s summer of 2019. Most recently she produced, dramturged and directed You Can’t Be Serious. Since the world premier in November 2023 You Can’t Be Serious has on to tour regionally and nationally, receiving rave reviews and winning best physical theater at Untied Solo, the largest solo festival in the work in NYC.
*Open to all individuals of any background, no experience necessary.
COST $500
Limited Subsidies Available
Email Katherine at katherineftgu@gmail.com to request financial support, make payment or if you have any other questions.