Intention Dance Theatre
A Somatic Approach to Practice and Performance
Contemporary Somatic Dance
Cultivating Fluid Body Capacity
Founded in 2005 by Teri Carter, Los Angeles based INTENTION DANCE THEATRE (IDT) offers transformative experiences for audiences and class participants alike. Our mission is to awaken people's conscious and kinesthetic capacity through movement arts, stimulating both perception & sensation in performances and classes for greater participation in creative and life experiences. Our projects aim to enhance creative development and vitality, as individuals who interrelate with our environment and life on this planet.
Our intention is to access and generate the aliveness that is available when we arrive fresh in each moment in fluid resonance with the field. This potency is the source of creativity, nourishment, and healing.
Through movement improvisation and felt gesture, character
development is accessed through embodiment, making way for innovative movement theatre.
Through movement improvisation and felt gesture, character
development is accessed through embodiment, making way for innovative movement theatre.
IDT weaves somatic movement into its performance work. This process helps provide compelling experiences for audiences, as the artists cultivate open body-mind connections while dancing.
IDT is the producer of L.A.'s
SOMAfest
, an annual festival event initiated in 2007 that fosters Somatic Embodiment in Practice, Performance and Daily Life.
