After an ample and enjoyable warmup that prioritises connection to self and others, we’ll get up to some juicy dancing that honors the individuals present and addresses some of my current choreographic and spiritual questions: For a witness/audience, what is the benefit offered by improvisational choice that is made from a place of not-choosing and radical withness; which prioritises pleasure, radiance, and responsiveness? How can we find and develop joy while doing the hard, sometimes deeply uncomfortable work of actually being at ease with ourself in offering ourself? We’ll get into these questions with the light aspiration to create a “something” together that brings each of us deeper inward and closer to each other.
clyde fusei forth is a choreographer, dancer, and visual artist currently living in upstate New York. She has been creating and producing original dance works for over 25 years, while also appearing in projects co-created with other dance makers and creating site-specific visual theater works.
From 2003 to 2014 Ms. forth created and produced these projects independently under the project name Clyde Forth Visual Theatre. In 2014 she founded and is Artistic Director of Lokasparsa Dance Projects, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. She is a recipient of a 2022 New York State Council on the Arts Choreographic Commission for “Still/Together”, which premiered at West Kortright Centre in East Meredith, NY. Between 2021 and 2024 she produced three dance films, which are available with accompanying educational material from 10kcreators.com.
Recent work has been presented at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Zen Mountain Monastery, Bridge for Dance in NYC, Byrdcliffe Theater, Art Omi, Mount Tremper Arts, and at the Booking Dance festival in Edinburgh Scotland. In 2019 her evening length solo, The Southern Thing, was presented in the ASK Presents inaugural season at Arts Society of Kingston. Her most recent project is a collaboration under the direction of Nita Little. Titled One is Not Enough, this multi-choreographer work premiered in April 2025 at Wildheart Center in the Hudson Valley of NY.
clyde has been on faculty or been a guest artist in dance and visual art departments at several colleges and arts organizations including Bennington College, Eugene Lang College, University of the Arts, Goucher College, Towson University, SUNY Ulster, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Dutchess and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park. She has also taught independently in her own studio in various locations since 2009.
clyde fusei forth is a postulant monastic at Zen Mountain Monastery in Mount Tremper, NY where she creates and teaches improvisation as time allows. Improvisation and its relationship to spiritual practices is one of her core interests as a performer and teacher.