work+play

AUSTEN BOHMER is a writer, actor, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As an actor, Austen has appeared on Broadway, on screen, and at theaters across the country. She recently spent a year on the road playing Glinda in Wicked. As a teaching artist, Austen has facilited learning spaces in South Africa, India, Berlin, and in all five boroughs of New York City. She’s the founder of The Vessel: a movement practice for creatives, which combines Butoh, yoga, and Jungian Dreamwork to help artists regulate their nervous systems and connect to their creativity. Austen is currently developing DE FEM, a musical seance about the Swedish spiritualist painter, Hilma af Klint. Her multidisciplinary work sets its aperture towards collective liberation.

facilitation

THE VESSEL

is a new movement practice for creatives. Drawing inspiration from Butoh, yoga, Jungian Dreamwork, and dancefloors around the world, The Vessel helps you quiet your mind and connect to your body. A durational journey, The Vessel investigates the relationship between sensory experience and creativity.

Austen works with community orgs such as Nkosi’s Haven, CHOICES Alternative to Detention, The Young Women’s Leadership School of Staten Island, Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, and many others. Sometimes, a piece of theatre is developed. Other times, a conflict mediated. Always, peace and play at the core. No matter the community, the process unfolds at the speed of trust.

making

A CRUCIBLE: 001 at Bard College

a response to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Developed from months of movement exploration and Jungian Dreamwork, exploring the text as if Dionysus had come to awake the carnal in the young women of Salem.