WINTER/SPRING 2026
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Self Center Sensuality
A weekend INTEnsive THAT EXPLORES THE SPACE of your own senSuality
Led By Asteria Howard
WHEN & WHERE
January 17th & 18th
11am-4pm
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.
Asteria’s Bio
Asteria got her dance start at the age of 3 in a small rural one room dance studio in Northern Michigan. As she grew, she started commuting one hour each way to study at Dance Arts Academy in Traverse City Michigan, where she also started teaching at the age of 17. Asteria obtained her dance degree from Northwestern Michigan College in a modern dance concentration, then took her skills around the globe where she worked in performing arts schools and dinner theaters across Australia and New Zealand. She has been a movement educator for 18 years now and has made it her mission to make dance accessible for all bodies.
When Asteria came back to the states, she landed in Portland on a one way ticket that was supposed to last 3 months. 6 years later, she continues to coach dance and aerial in the Portland Metro Area. Asteria can also be seen performing around venues from coast to coast as a burlesque and pole artist. She is currently the General Manager of the Dance Center at BodyVox where she manages, educates, and cultivates a community for dancers of all levels and abilities to access the joy of dance. You can stay up to date on Asteria’s whereabouts on Instagram at @asteriaatombomb or on her website www.asteriaatombomb.com.
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 5th-8th
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.