Biography

PATRICK CROWLEY has been studying dance and the body for 29 years as a dancer, yogi, and bodyworker. He teaches Contact Improvisation, anatomy and bodywork, yoga, personal process, and communication at Dance Centers, Yoga Centers, Organizations, Universities, and retreat centers. Patrick performs with Zany Angels Dance Theatre Company.

He co-leads the Longdance, outdoor seasonal ceremonies, including a sweat lodge, personal process, ritual, dance, and theatre. Patrick is also workshop coordinator for other events, including Nancy Stark Smith's annual 3-week January Workshop and Joel Gluck's Psolodrama workshops.

Patrick was certified in bodywork by Sensei Toshiko Phipps, was Nationally Certified in Bodywork in 1993, and is a member of Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals.

Patrick influences are New Dance Technique, Action Theater, Playback Theatre, vipassana meditation, dance ability, Budo Taijutsu, shamanic studies, somatics, leadership development, and Body-Mind Centering®.  

He has taught at Yale University, Boston University, Cambridge School of Weston, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Cape Cod Community College, Harvard University, Boston Community Center for the Arts, Dance Complex, Freiburg International Contact Improvisation Festival, Buenos Aires Contact Improvisation Festival, Boston Contact Improvisation Festival, Montreal's ACI Contact Improvisation Festival, Earthdance, Dance New England, Wild Life Sanctuary, Blue Guitar Studio, Green Planet, and Yoga Sanctuary.  In addition to most of the venues above, he has performed at the Boulder Fringe Festival, A.P.E., Radcliffe College, Helix, and many others.