Ophra Wolf (ophrawolf.com, www.forceandflow.com) is a dancer and performance artist, teacher and healer dedicated to a lifelong study of movement and embodied intelligence as a vehicle for personal and cultural transformation. Improvisation is her core creative practice, CI is at the heart of her journey as an artist. Her teaching is informed by a love of play and collaboration and weaves together highly technical approaches with knowledge from her advanced bodywork, Medical Qi Gong and performance practices. In recent years she’s been focused on bringing dance improvisation to underserved communities via Newburgh Open Movement (@NewburghOpenMovement) and applying her collaborative, site specific art making skills to water rights reclamation and environmental justice actions. She holds an MA in Performance from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BA in Sociology and Dance from UC Berkeley and is the recipient of numerous grants for the creation of original work and dance and art related community events.