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- 1. Scott Park Phillips gongfuguy@gmail.com cell: 415.200.8201 Vision (adults): Challenging students to discover insights and linkages between martial arts, dance, ritual, theater, and enlightenment. Inspiring physical, emotional and conceptual breakthroughs across cultural boundaries of religiosity and meaning. Fun, deep, disciplined, and spontaneous. Vision (youth): Mentoring raw physical performance prowess, spontaneity, and rhythmic sensibility, within an ethic of community oriented meritorious action. Teaching (Adults) North Boulder Park, Chen style taijiquan, yiquan meditation and baguazhang, 5 days a week. Boulder, CO 2014-present Lishi Organization International, ten days of workshops in Dance as Self-Defense, Chinese Martial Arts, Daoyin and lectures on history and religion, with Alex Boyd. London 2015 Amsterdam 2015 Portland Shaolin Center, “Dance as Self-Defense” and “Pure Internal Martial Arts,” two weekend workshops 30 students each. Portland, OR 2015 Zen Shiatsu Chicago, “Daoyin as Alchemy for Advanced Practitioners of Asian Bodywork,” with Michael DeAgro (Asian Bodywork Association of America), 25 students, three day workshops, on three separate weekends. Chicago 2013-2015 Circus Arts, “Everything about Taijiquan” and “The Complete Qigong,” two workshops fifty students each. Traverse City MI 2014 Ottawa University Theatre Department, “Martial Arts as Embodied Theater,” with Daniel Mroz Phd. 2014 Soja Martial Arts, “Martial Arts Games,” and “Dance as Self-Defense” and “Circus Daoyin” 3 hour workshops for adults offered 12 times, approximately 20 students per session Oakland, CA 2013-2015
- 2. American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Department of Physical Medicine, taijiquan and qigong with historical & cultural contextualization, 22 hours, 25 students per session, 500 students total San Francisco 2002-2007 Orthodox Daoism in America classes (10 students per session) and retreats (50 students per session), qigong, daoyin, baguazhang Santa Cruz, CA 1996-2005 Essence of Change liuhexinyi & baguazhang workshops, performances, and lectures (50 students) Tel-Aviv, Israel 2005-2006 St. Agnes Church, Spiritual Life Center taijiquan instruction (20 students, 3 sessions) San Francisco 2005 Asian Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibit “Taoism and the Arts of China,” 6 classes (20 students per session), 4 lectures (30 participants), consultations for film series “Daoism in Film,” and 5 martial arts performances San Francisco 2001 People Soft, taijiquan drop-in instruction Pleasant Hill, CA 2001 San Francisco Art Institute taijiquan & qigong (4 semester long sessions of 15 students. San Francisco 1998-1999 Kuan Yin Healing Arts Center HIV & AIDS Alternative Medical Clinic, drop-in qigong instruction (30 students once a week for 2 years) San Francisco 1998-1999 Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, taijiquan & qigong San Rafael, CA 1996-1997 Internal Technique: a series of collaborative workshops with Rebecca Haseltine using Body-Mind-Centering, Dance and Martial Arts (3 weekend workshops, 25 students each) San Francisco 1996-1998 Private Lessons, Group and Individual, countless private clients 1996 - present Teaching (youth):
- 3. Creative Dance Kids: “Kungfu-Hip-Hop,” six (8 week) sessions at Flagstaff Academy and Friends’ School. Boulder, CO 2014-2015 Performing Arts Workshop: Teaching Northern Shaolin as a performing art with Chinese Opera percussion and animal circus daoyin, focusing either on an end performance or on “world dance” in a cultural context. Semester-long in-school residences, after-school programs, and emergency homeless shelters. (Approximately 2000 elementary school students served.) San Francisco 2001-2012 Mission Education Center: same style class described above but for non-English speakers (500-600 students served) San Francisco 2007-2013 Lafayette Parks and Recreation Summer Workshops: Week long workshops focused on animal movement (daoyin) ending with a performance (4 session, approx. 12 students each) Lafayette, CA 2011-2012 Raphael House, Hamilton Family Centers, Homeless Shelters for Families San Francisco 2002-2009 Young Audiences: School Residencies and Performance Demonstrations San Francisco Bay Area 2001-2004 Urban Pioneer Program (Alternative High School for “at risk youth”): Ropes Course Leader (countless participants), Wilderness Mentor (250 students served) and Martial Arts Instructor (300 students), supervised two successful wilderness evacuations San Francisco 1998-2004 Galileo Outdoor Adventure Programs (Alternative High School) Martial Arts Instructor San Francisco 1997-1998 Jefferson Wilderness Program (Alternative High School) Martial Arts Instructor Daly City, CA 1996-1997 Where There Be Dragons (Summer Abroad Adventure Program) China Guide for 15 high school students Peoples Republic of China (PRC) 2001
- 4. City of Oakland: Sailing instructor (youth & adults). Created a boating summer camp from the ground up, including original curriculum development, hundreds of on-water rescues, (approximately 1000 students served) Oakland 1992-1994 Mill Valley School District Enrichment Programs and Park and Recreation Department, Gymnastics & Northern Shaolin instuction (400 students served) Mill Valley, CA 1992-1998 Fort Miley Adventure Ropes Course Leader and Leader Trainer (Youth At Risk) San Francisco 1983-1994 Environmental Traveling Companions: Skiing and Rafting guide, for severely disabled youth and adults California 1990-1992 City of Oakland Creative Dance Instructor Oakland 1991-1992 Private Lessons: Group and Individual, (countless private clients) 1992 - present Education (Martial Arts, Dance Theater and Ritual) San Francisco State University Dance Ethnology & Performance (B.A.) United States 1989 Oomoto School of Traditional Arts Noh Dance, Budo (ritual martial arts), Tea Ceremony (Chado), two month long intensive residency Kamioka, Japan 1987 School of Mines, Dance and Physical Theater Program (1 year) Ballarat, Australia 1985 Chinese Martial Arts (37 years of study and practice, over 30,000 hours. Accompanying dates represent first year of study.) Northern Shaolin Bing Gong student of Kuo Lien-Ying, Chinese Opera character based martial arts (beginning at age 10) 1977 Yiquan Bing Gong 1987 Taijiquan (Guang Ping Yang Style) Bing Gong 1987
- 5. Taijiquan (Chen Style) George Xu (Xu Guoming), Zhang Xuexiu 1989 Baguazhang George Xu, Bruce Kumar Frantzis 1989 Liuhexinyi George Xu 1989 Lanshou George Xu, Ye Xiaolong 1989 Taijiquan (Wu Style) Bruce Kumar Frantzis 1993 Daoyin (Orthodox Style Daoist Yoga/Qigong) Liu Ming 1997 Daoyin (Animal Circus Performance Style Daoist Yoga/Qigong) Paulie Zink 2000 Operate Conditioning and Self-defense Law Sgt. Rory Miller author of Meditations on Violence, YMAA Publication Center, 2008. Completed Instructor Course in 2015. 2009-2015 Silat/Eskrima (weapons) Maija Soderholm, last disciple of Sonny Umpad 2010 Modern Dance (10 years) 1985-1995 Influential choreography teachers Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy, Garth Fagan, Lucas Hoving Influential technique teachers Sara Shelton Mann (disciple of Alwin Nikolais), C.G Seville (disciple of Charles Weidman), Susan Whip (Limón technique), Robin Sedgwick (Graham technique) Kathak, North Indian Classical Dance Theater (6 years) 1988-1994 Pandit Chitresh Das, San Francisco, San Anselmo, CA African Haitian Dance Katherine Dunham Technique (4 years) 1986-1990 Alicia Pierce (disciple of Katherine Dunham), San Francisco Congolese Dance (4 years) 1987-1991 Malonga Casquelourd, San Francisco, Oakland Ballet, (4 years) 1986-1990 Alonzo King, choreographer for Lines Dance Company, San Francisco C.G. Seville, lead dancer for Charles Weidman Dance Company, San Francisco Improvisational Theater
- 6. Keith Johnston (author of Impro), attended the first of 4 workshops at the San Francisco Zen Center at age 15 1982-2005 Tabla: North Indian Classical Drumming (4 years) 1990-1994 Pandit Swapan Chauhdri, Ali Akbar College of Music, San Rafael, CA Daoism: Education & Organizational Management Orthodox Daoism in America, (9 years) Training in meditation, inner alchemy, dream practice, daoyin, ritual, medicinal cooking, history, aesthetics and extensive text study Duties included teaching, accounting, fundraising, organizing retreats Santa Cruz, CA 1996-2005 Singular Experiences Social Thought a National Public Radio (NPR) weekly program, “Interviewing the world’s leading interdisciplinary scholars, who are exploring how institutions think.” Executive Reader for the host Michael Phillips (10 years) 1987-1998 Fisherman crewed on The Home II (long-lining), and The Wendy A (trolling), the Wendy A was the model boat for the label of the popular beer Alaskan Amber Ale. Alaska (May-Aug) 1992 Sea Scouts of America The Navigator (Ship 100), a one hundred year old wooden sailing whale boat, Able Seaman (rank), duties: Shop Keeper, Logistics, Shipwright. San Francisco 1980-1984 Daoist and Martial Arts Performances As a performing artist who understands the study of martial arts as part of a larger ritual performance culture, performing is an integral part of what I do. Performing for students, teachers and the public is a continuous process that takes place both inside and outside the normal staged performance realm. Cardiff University First International Martial Arts Studies Conference (paper and performance). Cardiff, UK 2015 New England Conference (NEAAS), “Daoyin ReImagined” a panel, paper, performance, discussion, and participatory workshop, with Sabina Knight Phd. and Daniel Mroz Phd. University of Connecticut 2014
- 7. International Conference on Daoism (classes, papers & performances). Vashon Island, WA 2002 Loyola Marymount University, CA 2009 Boston University 2014 Essence of Change, internal martial arts school, performance & class. Israel 2008 Performing Arts Workshop, solo performances & choreographed student performances using martial arts, theater, percussion and improvisation (4-10 every year for 11 years) San Francisco 2001-2012 American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM), 2-5 performances and workshops for new students and community outreach projects per year (5 years) San Francisco 2002-2007 Orthodox Daoism in America multiple performances at public fundraisers Santa Cruz, San Francisco 1996-2005 Dance and Theater Performances Ellen Webb Dance Company, numerous performances including the legendary Los Angeles Arts Festival in 1990 Oakland 1989-1992 Kathak (numerous North Indian Classical Dance performances) San Francisco, Berkeley, India 1992-1995 Talking Dance Project choreographed by Keith Hennessey, at Project Artaud San Francisco 1990 10 Men, Under A Freeway choreographed by Keith Hennessey San Francisco 1990 The Spiral Dance (Reclaiming Collective) choreographer and dancer San Francisco 1989 Playing at Work, Working at Play Theater
- 8. San Francisco 1988 TAG (Theater Action Group) San Francisco 1988-1990 Mud People a public street performance ritual San Francisco 1988, 1989, 1990 Theater of Changes solo, part of the Rad Cult Fest San Francisco 1988 Anything Goes (Wrong), part of Alcemedia, Inter-Arts (dance-theater-video), directed by Michele Rabkin, at The Lab San Francisco 1987 Graffiti Dance Theater choreographed by Robin Sedgwick Australia 1985 Ballarat Community Theater (multiple mask and mime productions) Australia 1985 Inland Surfers (touring group, original music and clowning) Australia 1985 Publications Possible Origins, A Cultural History of Chinese Martial Arts, Theater, and Religion, forth coming 2016. “Cracking the Code: Taijiquan as Enlightenment Theater,” forthcoming in Daoism and the Military, Three Pines Press 2016. “Daoyin Reimagined: A Comparison of Three Embodied Traditions,” co-authored with Daniel Mroz Phd. Journal of Daoist Studies 9. (p. 139-158), Three Pines Press, 2016. Review of “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks and the History of a Ming Novel by Mark R.E. Meulenbeld,” in Journal of Martial Arts Studies vol. 1, (p. 97-102), Cardiff University Press, 2015. "Portrait of an American Daoist, Charles Belyea/Liu Ming" in Journal of Daoist Studies, Vol. 1, (p. 161-176), Three Pines Press, 2008. “Theater, Ritual and Exorcism in Chinese Martial Arts,” unpublished manuscript available at Daoiststudies.org & Academia.edu delivered at the 5th International Conference on Daoism, 2010.
- 9. The Workshop Out of School, a US Department of Education “Best Practices Study,” (featured teaching artist), Performing Arts Workshop, 2008. Lessons from the Workshop, a US Department of Education “Best Practices Study,” (featured teaching artist), Performing Arts Workshop, 2006. “Taijiquan and Push Hands” & “Daoism in Taijiquan” two essays published in Zu den Quellen des Taijiquan: Das Dao in Bewegung, edited & translated by Luc Theler, Neue Erde, 2002. Review of “Fu Zhongwen: Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan, by Louis Swaim,” Frost Bell, the newsletter of Orthodox Daoism in America, vol. 12, 2002. Dancer’s Voice, a newsletter for the SFSU Dance Department, creator, editor, and feature writer for vol.1 & 2, 1987. Web Presence Youtube Lecture Demonstrations (over one million views) 2006-present Weakness with a Twist a blog with over 1000 posts, northstarmartialarts.com/blog1 2007-present