Coalessence is stewarded by a core facilitator – Paul Deering – along with many close friends and collaborators. We are honored to create and hold the container for and with Dancers, Djs, Musicians, Somatic Lab facilitators, Altar Creators and others… In addition, we share a multitude of responsibilities for administrative duties, communications, and other behind-the-scenes work. We come from diverse backgrounds, united by our passion for dance, and a strong vision and commitment to grow the ecstatic dance community.
About Paul
Over the years I have come to feel that dance is not something I do but rather something I am; rhythmic, in motion, curious and striving to express myself as a creative being.
Pauls formal schooling was first in visual arts, attending the Kansas City Art Institute for three years in the sculpture program, then going on to earn a BFA in photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1987. Later he returned to school at The East West College of Healing arts and becoming Licensed as a Massage Therapist in Oregon in 2001. In 1988 he began studying movement arts after being introduced to his first Tai Chi teacher, Gregory Fong and has been passionate about practicing and teaching movement in the meditative, healing and expressive arts ever since.
Currently Paul is honored to be a member of the Coalessence Dance core facilitation team and continues to teach Chinese movement arts for health, spiritual well being and as a foundation for his explorations into improvisational dance. Staying connected to his roots in the visual arts, he continues to explore the world through the the lens, documenting music and dance with a particular focus on experimental composers, performance artists and the interactive world of contact improvisation.
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