brooke smiley

Earth Artist, Dancer,
Somatic Movement Educator

 

ABOUT

brooke smiley is a 𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 (Wah-zha-zhe, Osage) body and earth artist. Grounded in somatic education, public earth art, and dance performance, her work engages a deepening awareness in the body, our relationships with one another, and the world to tell stories of the land and the bodies that live here. She is currently a Native Launchpad Artist with the Western Arts Alliance.

brooke is a Somatic Movement Educator (SME) from Body Mind Centering® working in the BMC® practitioner training, and therapist in Somatic Experiencing® (SE), practicing from both Western and Indigenous perspectives.  Her passion for working with the earth comes from being born into a family of builders.  She holds a California General Contractor’s License and specializes in Superadobe, as a graduate and long term apprentice of California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (CalEarth).  She has experience building earth domes for the Tarahumara women in Guachochi, Mexico, the Havasupai in Arizona, sculptural play gardens outside the Hayward Gallery in London, and the “Hollywood Dome” featured on HGTV.

brooke toured extensively in Europe and Australia creating and performing new work with Fabulous Beast Dance Theater of Ireland (now Teac Damsa), Ventura Dance Company of Zurich, and Michael Clark Company of London, with two residencies at Tate Modern.  Her choreography has premiered at Sadlers Wells Lilian Bayliss Theater, REDCAT, and Highways Performance Space, with residencies and solo shows at centre d’ art de passarelle, ritual and research, and sea and space explorations amongst others. She is awarded a Masters of Arts with Distinction from TrinityLaban in London, with a full Leverhulme Trust scholarship. brooke earned her BFA from CalArts as an arts representative to the board of directors. 

brooke is currently developing EARTH.SPEAKS, a multi-year national initiative creating earth markers in multiple regions of the United States, produced by SOZO and in partnership with communities in Colorado, the Bay Area and beyond.

She is awarded as a United States Dance Scholar from the California State Senate, California Legislature, and United States Congress.

 

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