Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Rebecca Frost- Season 14, Episode 154

Rebecca Frost, CMT, MSMT, MFA  (she / her) After her career
as a modern dancer, she's moved into life as a multi-disciplinary
artist, writer, somatic therapist, educator and activist.


Rebecca earned a BA in Theater and an MFA in Writing and is
certified in a number of modalities. As an adjunct faculty
member, Rebecca taught Body-Mind Centering in the University of
Minnesota Dance and Theater Department. She  created the
course, Writing and Emotional Currency at The Loft Literary
Center, taught experiential anatomy to UMN Medical students and
at the Mpls Yoga Center, and body-sourced writing at Shakopee
Women’s Prison’s recovery program for inmates. She recently
served on the Board of Directors of the International Somatic
Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA), serving on
the Government Relations, Research and Publication, and Equity,
Justice and Accessibility committees. Through ISMETA, Rebecca is
registered as a Master Somatic Movement Therapist. 


Her poetry and fiction have been published in journals and
anthologies. Her MFA thesis was a novel, and she is
intermittently at work on a creative nonfiction manuscript. She
co-founded the popular "Dancers Who Write" reading series (with
Linda Shapiro), won the Verve Spoken Word grant, and co-created
The Women's Performance Project (convened by Diane Elliot) which
received two McKnight Fellowships in Choreography. The
groundbreaking work of The Women’s Performance Project is
described in a textbook, Dancing Female, lives and issues of
women in contemporary dance in a chapter entitled Fire and Ice:
Female Archetypes in American Modern Dance (pg. 117), published
by Harwood Academic through Swarthmore College, editors Sharon E.
Friedler and S. B. Glazer. 


A few of the performance projects Rebecca has contributed
creatively to in the past decade include: Angry Black Woman and
Well Intentioned White Girl (at Intermedia Arts and touring), a
hilarious and necessary play by Amoke Kubat; The Revolution Will
Not Be Culturally Competent (for the National Evaluator’s
Conference, and in collaboration with Pangea Theater), conceived
and directed by Vidhya Shanker; and in residence as the writer
for Waterlines (at the Gremlin Theater) by Summer Hills-Bonczyk,
a ritual performance piece with 3,000 pounds of clay on stage
which transformed through the evening, culminating a group
intensive week of yoga-informed healing.


Rebecca helps people become the best version of themselves. She
is is an advocate for all things related to human development,
consciousness, and how we express it. As a Somatic Therapist, her
passion lies in helping each person take his/her/their next step,
providing support for that exhilarating reach beyond one's own
edge. In her private practice she works with you to assist in
identifying and moving through your personal growing edges, to
enhance performance of all kinds, to overcome fears, to heal. She
is particularly skilled at working with dancers and other
performers, including rehab from injuries, moving through trauma,
expanding your range, embodying your whole self in all the
settings. Rebecca is one of half a dozen certified teachers of
LearningMethods / Anatomy of Wholeness in North America (created
by David Gorman) which brings sharp focus to human structure,
function and use, and how we bring our awareness to any given
problem!


Rebecca has provided Circle Keeping to Urban League High School,
taught mediators at the Mpls Conflict Resolution Center and
University of MN Law School, served on Restorative Justice panels
for the prison diversion program of Hennepin County, and been
hired to facilitate conflict in a variety of settings. 


Rebecca prioritizes racial justice and LGBTQIA liberation in the
work she chooses, works with humans of all ages (pre-birth to
elders), and welcomes everyone. Find out more:
www.embodiedarts.com