"A radical & perpetual innovator", Stephanie has created interdisciplinary movement-based performances for over 20 years. Her process focuses on the power and totality of each performer, collaboratively discovering & developing material.

Called "a major American experimentalist", she has an international reputation for her adventurous work, performing and teaching in 30 of the United States and 13 countries. Her New York City-based touring company performed worldwide for 10 years.

Now based in the Pacific Northwest, she works independently with many companies, artists and institutions. Formerly on Graduate Faculty at the University of Washington School of Drama Professional Actors Training Program, and Core Faculty of the Skinner Releasing Institute, she has taught at such places as the American Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival, European Dance Development Center, Naropa Institute, Movement Research in New York, and as a guest at many colleges and universities around the country.

She directs Open Source Forms, a teacher certification program focusing on deep commonalities of Skinner Releasing and creative process. She is Associate Artistic Director of The Gravity Project, an integrative theater company combining movement, design, music, and a poetic approach to text. She's a frequent guest artist at Juniata College's innovative theater department: teaching, mentoring, creating & directing performances. She teaches & creates work annually at Container12 in Brescia, Italy.

Skura has received 7 Choreography Fellowships and 5 Dance Company Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, one of the first "Bessie Awards" for Choreography, and many other government, foundation and corporate grants, as well as commissions from several dance companies. She moved to Seattle from New York City in 1993.

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