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Founded and Directed by Teri Carter and Intention Dance Theatre
| Faculty Bios & Class Descriptions |
| GABRIEL ORSHAN TAI CHI ALCHEMY Wed, Sept 14, 7:30-10:00pm |
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
We'll explore the relationship between the smallest level of activity within the body and it's largest
movements, aligning the inner cellular with external expression of movement through space. We'll take
our discoveries into witnessing explorations, expressing our inner and outer fullness.
movements, aligning the inner cellular with external expression of movement through space. We'll take
our discoveries into witnessing explorations, expressing our inner and outer fullness.
Gabriel Orshan brings over 20 years of experience as a dancer, performer, martial artist, and somatic
Teri Carter's 'Intention Dance Theatre'. Gabriel Orshan has learned and worked with some of the
pioneers of the Western Somatics movement, as well as numerous teachers and practitioners from
Asia and India. He learned personally and closely with several prominent masters, most notably Taoist
monk and martial artist Kwan Saihung, originally from pre-communist China; and, martial arts master
and researcher Su Dong-Chen, founder of Essence of Evolution, from Taiwan and Japan. He studied
at New College of California, in San Francisco. Also at New College he was introduced to the field of
somatics and modern-dance by teachers Gary Soto and Theresa Dickenson. Later he studied Contact
Improv with Scott Wells and Keriac in San Francisco, as well as ballet at Orches Dance Space in
Oakland, CA. Currently Gabriel lives and works in Los Angeles, teaching Somatics, martial-arts, doing
bodywork with clients, and is in Emperor's College Master's program of Traditional Oriental Medicine
studying acupuncture and herbology.
Teri Carter's 'Intention Dance Theatre'. Gabriel Orshan has learned and worked with some of the
pioneers of the Western Somatics movement, as well as numerous teachers and practitioners from
Asia and India. He learned personally and closely with several prominent masters, most notably Taoist
monk and martial artist Kwan Saihung, originally from pre-communist China; and, martial arts master
and researcher Su Dong-Chen, founder of Essence of Evolution, from Taiwan and Japan. He studied
at New College of California, in San Francisco. Also at New College he was introduced to the field of
somatics and modern-dance by teachers Gary Soto and Theresa Dickenson. Later he studied Contact
Improv with Scott Wells and Keriac in San Francisco, as well as ballet at Orches Dance Space in
Oakland, CA. Currently Gabriel lives and works in Los Angeles, teaching Somatics, martial-arts, doing
bodywork with clients, and is in Emperor's College Master's program of Traditional Oriental Medicine
studying acupuncture and herbology.
| Gabrielle Orshan |
| Gabrielle Orshan |
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