Susan osberg (Susan)
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 Susan Osberg writer/dancer/choreographer/ healer

Juilliard BFA, Columbia University Teachers College MA

 As artistic director of  Workwith Dancers Company, she has worked experimentally and collaboratively with new music composers and visual artists since 1979. She performed in the original  1979 production of DANCE by Lucinda Childs at BAM, and is still dancing in the film by Sol LeWitt. This production has recently been revived at Bard’s Fisher Center, The Joyce and at the Whitney Museum. After this performance she started choreographing; she performs and teaches internationally in Canada, Sweden, Tunisia, Jordan, Italy, France, Estonia. Her work has been performed at Danspace Project, DTW, St. Mark's Church, The Joyce-Soho, Judson Church (Movement Research), The Whitney Museum, Riverside Dance Theater, The Cunnigham Studio and  Dia Center for the Arts. She was a Visiting Professor of Dance at Bard College (1986—2009),  where she also directed Dance Across Borders (2007) at  the Fisher Art Center. DAB is an international, grass roots alliance for experimental dance artists, Susan is a founding member. She teaches workshops including ‘Dancing on Sacred Ground’ in Estonia, and most recently ‘Dance as Trance/Dance as Ritual’ in Bordeaux, France. She has repeatedly been invited to teach  Sufi dance workshops at Princeton and Barnard.

Susan worked as an energy-healer and counselor in NYC for 15 years. She graduated from the IM School of Healing Arts (3 year program) in NYC. She teaches Kundalini Yoga and ‘Dance in the Present’, investigating meditative movement techniques and the contemporary mind-body movement. She holds a certificate in Transformational Psychology from The Open Center. Susan engages a practice  of Tibetan Buddhist meditation and dance improvisation.

Susan’s written word has been spoken in many of her performance pieces as monologues and dance poems. These have been performed internationally. She is a published poet in Blue Light Red Light (1990) a periodical of speculative fiction and the Arts. She has written dance reviews and articles for Music Journal and Movement Research, Temenos, and Inner Tapestry. She has read for FM Coalition in Woodstock, Planned Parenthood, Columbia University Radio, Calling All Poets in Beacon, NY.  She just finished her second novel, Blind Seer, which was begun in 2001 after a performance, Voice of a Seer, she wrote, choreographed and directed about Madame Blavatsky, at HERE in NYC.

She lives in Beacon, NY with her husband Winston Roeth, a painter. She has been collaborating with artists on dance videos. “Broken Words”, with visual artist Kathleen Anderson, composer Dean Sharp and Filmmaker Tom Moore. She is also collaborating with an artist Greg Slick on ‘Purification”, a video based on the first Happening of the zin Dynasty, by poet/calligraphher Wang XiZhi. She invited 7 dancers to interpret  in gesture, poems of Chinese women living between 600- 1960.  

My Favorite Dance Companies Are:

 Pina Bausch, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Martha Clark, Black Grace, Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown, Molissa Fenley, Tere O'Conner, and contemporaries.

My Occupation:

writer/dancer/choreographer/healer

The last dance performance I loved was:

 Anna Halprin at DTW

Trisha Brown at Dia

My other interests include:

 Nature, music, art, yoga and meditation.

I am a dance enthusiast because:

 I danced most my life and dance is always changing for me.

If I could have dinner with any choreographer / dancer, it would be:
Because:

 My friends. Catlin Cobb, Muna Tseng, Jane Comfort, Molissa Fenley, Marika Blossfeldt, Mireille Feyzeau, Gun Lund, Rene Nommick and on.
My former students Arthur Avilles, Dusan Tynek, Sonja Robbins and Laya Childs of Robbinschilds, Dages Keates, Adrienne Barr, Rachel Lane, Alexis Steeves & Rain Saukas and on.

I am inspired by:

 Visual art, Performance Art, good food, a book, an interesting discussion. Dance work that resonates on many levels. Women in art.

My Website:

www.susanosberg@mac.com