Tracy Broyles is an embodiment facilitator, dancer, energy worker, writer, artist and storyteller. Tracy creates experiences that allow people to sense the relationship between the unseen worlds, worlds of the psyche, emotions, energies, ancestors, and our tangible physical reality. She has been based in the Pacific Northwest for over twenty years.
in Tracy’s words….
“This story begins and continues with dance. Expressing myself through performing and creating dances has shaped and driven my inquiry and joy all things somatic and energetic. It has put me in classrooms, stages, and studios for over 30 years.
Based in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years, some professional highlights include; Creating and performing The Observer Effect at The Headwaters Theater (PDX) on Winter Solstice in 2013, and again at my college alma mater UMBC (Maryland) in 2016. Creating a group dance ritual centered on shadow processing in the performance HYDE in 2015, that inspired spontaneous audience participation. Running blindfolded and backward through a network of wooden blocks at the Coming Home showing. Returning to Mike Barber’s 10 Tiny Dances Stage in 2022, twenty years after performing in its inaugural inception. I have also enjoyed creating performance installations in an empty house, and dancing I want to stop wanting with collaborator Meshi Chavez (2004-2009), flying under the i-5 freeway overpass with Aviator Aerial Dance Company (company member 2000-2007), studying with Deborah Hay in Findhorn, Scotland (2010) and performing with my step-daughter, in Tahni Holt’s company in Bulgaria in 2018. The gift of space has helped me develop my choreographic vision through residencies at Caldera Arts (2007), Signal Fire (2014, with collaborators Lisa DeGrace, Stephen Miller, and Adrian Hutapea) and New Expressive Works (2012), and as resident artist at FLOCK Dance Center (2014-present.)
A main current inquiry, with collaborator Adrian Hutapea and others, is Altars of Reconciliation, an evolving dance performance, community ritual, writing spark, interview and video series that asks: What is Reconciliation? And can we build a place for it to land?
Starting in 2010 and continuing today, I have a developed a series of energy healing and dance workshops that highlight a pathway of personal evolution. This pedagogy is the base for my upcoming workbook.
Through the lens of a Pilates Instructor, I began almost daily teaching, both group and one-on-one sessions, in 2001. This gave me a solid knowledge base in embodied anatomy and movement patterns. It also gave me the opportunity to really get to know how to guide a flow, work with people, and support through movement with love, kindness. At this time I also learned Reiki and began my hands on energy practice.
My journey was profoundly transformed through participating in the four-year training program to become a Core Energetics Therapist with Ken and Kathleen Goldberg. This form of psycho-somatic therapy taught me how both embodiment and our lives are directly affected by our thoughts, beliefs and emotions, as well as how it is affected by childhood development and trauma. This training also included how to regulate the nervous system.
My work has evolved again through current studies with mentor Shayne Case, where I am learning how everything is truly relational- and how plant, animal and nature medicine supports the whole being. This training is also deepening my skills as an energy worker and spirit guide channel.
Starting in 2010 and continuing today, I have been developing a series of performances, community engagements and workshops that highlight a pathway of inquiry, healing, joy, and creative practice. This pathway is the base for the upcoming: Book of Somatic Spells, volume 1 and 2.”
Group teaching Biography
Guest Instructor Middlebury College and University of Vermont
2023
Creator and Facilitator of a series of workshops combining dance, embodied anatomy, creative play, and Core Energetics. Online and in person in Portland, OR at Flock Dance Center
Instrument of the Infinite, Enlivening the Pelvis, Monsters, Breathe as a Metaphor, Radiant Emptiness, Altars of Reconciliation, Attune, What the Heck is Energy Anyway?, The Creative Playshop, Making the Invisible Visible.
2013-current.
Pilates Instructor. Portland, OR.
Portland State University, Body Mechanics, Bodies in Balance, Pearl Pilates, Portland Healing Space.
2004-2020
Degree/Certifications
2023 Graduated from a two year program with Energy Healer Shayne Case.
2021-2023 Vision Building, Life Mastery, and MasterMind with coach Christal Brown
2021-2022 Creative People Making Money and Movement, Meditation, Heal with programs Michelle Boule.
2016 Certification as a Core Energetics Practitioner, 4 year program under Ken Goldberg
2005 Level 1 and 2 Reiki Attunement with Katie Todd
2004 Certification in Pilates from the PhysicalMind Institute
1996 BA in Visual Performing Arts/Dance from University of Maryland Baltimore County
Choreographic Performance Biography
2022
Altars of Reconciliation, 10 Tiny Dances, Beaverton, OR
2019
Since the First Sunrise/Coming Home in -progress showing FLOCK
2018
Sensation/Disorientation performed in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Dance USA Spotlight showcase
Since the First Sunrise/Coming Home in-progress showing/Headwaters Theater
2017
Sensation/Disorientation with Tahni Holt Dance/White Bird/Portland
2016
The Observer Effect/ UMBC/ Baltimore, MD
Root/Route. In-Progress/ Headwaters Theater/Portland
2015
HYDE/Studio Two/Portland
2014
HYDE In-progress/Flock/Portland, Holocene/Portland
Critical Engagement with Dirt Stage/Flock/Portland
2013
The Observer Effect/Headwaters Theater/Portland
The Observer Effect In-Progress/Studio Two Resident Showing.
2012
Art + Life/Deborah Hay Solo Commission/Risk Reward Festival/Portland, Temescal Art Center/Oakland
Local Culture Project Film/Screened at Headwaters Theater/Portland
2011
Mirror, A Convoluted Path Of Resistance/Headwaters/Portland
Art+ Life/Headwaters Portland, DanceGround Keriac/ San Fransicso
2010
Monster Showing/Studio Two/Portland
Technology Monster/Headwaters, 10 Tiny Dances at Bluehour/Portland
2009
I want to stop wanting with Meshi Chavez/Disjecta/Portland
Between with Meshi Chavez and Stephanie Lanckton/Performance Works Northwest/Portland
2008
I want to stop wanting In-Progress/Movement Research/ NYC
Between/Judson Church/NYC
2007
COCOON BIRD/Site-specific in an empty house/Portland
2006
COCOON BIRD/In-progress/10 Tiny Dances/Seattle and Portland, Dance USA/Newmark Theater/Portland, Caldera Artist Residency/Sisters, OR
2004
…..he was costuming angels/Disjecta/Portland
2003
Creation:imperfect The Water Street Project, Portland, OR
2000
Tendency to exist- Conduit
1999-2004
Company member of MONSTER SQUAD, with Tahni Holt
1999-2000
Company member of aero/betty
2001-2006
Company member of Aviator
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2015
Individual Project Grant/HYDE (RACC)
Collaborative Residency with M13/Signal Fire/ Oregon
2013
Individual Project Grant/The Observer Effect (RACC)
Studio Residency/The Headwaters/Oregon
2012
New Expressive Work Residency/Studio Two/Oregon
2010
Professional Development Grant (RACC)
Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project/Findhorn, Scotland
2009
Individual Project Grant/I want to stop wanting. (RACC)
2007
Individual Project Grant/Cocoon Bird (RACC)
Caldera Artist Residency/Oregon
2006
Dance Lab Professional Development Residency from NDP and NEFA/Oregon
Award from MRG Foundation
A Few other influential TEACHERS:
Yumiko Yoshioba
Tahni Holt
Meshi Chavez
Rebecca Harrison
Denise Fujiwara
Raine Crowe
Deborah Hay
Akira Kasai
Suniti Desvoercheck
Susan Banyas
