About Ophra Wolf:
Ophra Wolf is a dancer, space maker, and cultural activator.
Live performance and unusual happenings are her mediums of choice, movement improvisation is her core practice.
Cultivating culture for a life transformed by interaction and defined by change rather than by static frameworks of knowledge and authority is her mission.
The act of loving and listening to what is guides her creative work and she’s lucky to have been initiated in this spiritual tradition by many formidable masters, her colleagues and collaborators being most influential, alongside mentors and teachers such as Steve Paxton (Contact Improvisation, Material for the Spine), Lisa Nelson (Tuning Scores) and Mario Biagini (Workcenter of Jerzy Grotwoski and Thomas Richards), and Hermanto Handojo (Medical Qi Gong).
A lifelong student and highly regarded teacher of somatic arts, she’s fueled by a love of creative play and grounded by decades of movement practice, her technical tool bag rich with knowledge from the worlds of dance, qi gong, yoga, contemporary and ancient bodywork techniques, among many others.
The art of listening for answers in embodied relation to the moment is the secret to the success of her private coaching and holistic health practice, Force and Flow Integrated Bodywork, where an impressive roster of trailblazing writers, thinkers, activists, music and art makers come to learn how to move in deep alignment with their life force on the path to realizing their vision.
Ophra holds a BA in Sociology and Dance from UC Berkeley (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Betta Kappa) and an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London (Honors), and is the recipient of numerous grants for the creation of original work and community movement events, including from the New York State Council on the Arts, Humanities New York, Orange County Arts Council and from The Water Foundation for her work as a founding member of the Newburgh Clean Water Project.
To inquire about performance, teaching and speaking engagement, please use the contact form.