Lindsay Hopkins

Lindsay Hopkins is a performer, facilitator and healing practitioner. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on improvisational dance, physical theatre and curating events with opportunities for active participation in somatic practices and community building. She draws on her experiences and training with: improvisational dance and movement, nonviolent communication, social mapping, Theater of the Oppressed, and Playback Theatre to bring embodiment, creativity, intuition and sensory awareness into her workshops, events and performance works. She is trained in energy healing, breathwork, bodywork and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy approaches. She has a private healing practice working with individuals and groups in coming home to their body and activating creative capacity through healing.

Lindsay has worked as a Teaching Artist in Chicago with Silk Road Rising, Victory Gardens, Center for Community Arts Partnerships (Columbia College), the Howard Area Community Center, Youth Organizations Umbrella Inc. and the Shanti Foundation for Peace. She’s facilitated workshops with North Park University, Le Plongeoir (France), Tools for Solidarity (Northern Ireland), Casa de Paz (Oakland, CA), and the Weave Artists Residency (Belgium). Most recently she has been a STAIR artist in residence with Chicago Moving Company and performed at AADK residency in Blanca Murcia, Spain, and participated in artist-in-residence performance works at Links Hall (Precious Jennings + Lara Oppenheimer). She’s also worked with directing and choreography with Chicago Opera Vanguard, RhinoFest, About Face Theatre and Dream Theatre. As a developer of Interdisciplinary events she’s worked with At The Table Collective (founder), Dramatis Personae (Artistic Director), Chicago Home Theatre Festival and Chicago Dream House.

 

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