BAASE
The Bay Area Axis Syllabus Exchange is back for 2026!
The Bay Area has a long history of nurturing teachers of the Axis Syllabus. BAASE is a chance for Bay Area and US West Coast Axis Syllabus Teachers and Teacher Candidates to share their research. The Axis Syllabus is an evolving body of practical approaches, theoretical research, and pedagogical methods related to human movement. It is continually developed by an active international community and was originally initiated and written by the renowned American dancer, choreographer, and author Frey Faust. AS draws on knowledge bases of biomechanics, anatomy, physics, Western medical sciences, physiology, anthropology, and empirical research. The Axis Syllabus explores anatomy in a dynamic, “alive” context, using dance and motion as investigative tools.
Registration, Discount, and Scholarship Information:
Register at bookwhen.com/baase
- Early Bird Registration through April 7th ($395)
- Standard Registration through June 1st ($475)
- Late Bird Registration ($525) & Drop-In Registration through June 22nd ($40/class & $115/day)
Certified AS teachers not teaching at the event may attend for 50% off Standard All-Access Ticket and AS Teacher Candidates are offered 30% off Standard All-Access Ticket, respectively (Please use contact@team.nuriabowart.com to apply and to request discount code access)
- We have three BIPOC scholarships (100% off, 3/3 already taken). (Please write to contact@team.nuriabowart.com to apply)
- We have two work-trade positions (100% off, 1/2 already taken). (Please write to contact@team.nuriabowart.com to apply)
2026 BAASE Teacher Bios
Sam Stone is a dance performance artist, teacher, community organizer, and creator with an MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. She is a certified Axis Syllabus© teacher of anatomy and biomechanics and a K-12 dance education specialist. In addition, Sam teaches modern dance, improvisation, and choreography in both university and professional settings. She runs Dance Class for Humans, Salt Lake City’s only ongoing Contemporary dance class series for local freelancers. Her work is shown in theaters in and outside the US, but she prefers enchanting the homes and found spaces she passes with art and design. Sam has performed with Joanna Kotze, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Bianca Cabrera. As a dance advocate, she values the expression, freedom, and play that dance offers and always pushes for arts awareness and opportunity for all.
Emily Jones is a choreographer, dancer, movement teacher, and bodyworker based in Portland, Oregon. Emily is inspired by the ways the application of information from biomechanics, physics, and physiology can foster agency and inform movement possibilities for dancing bodies. Emily is invested in the upholding of clear consent practices and open communication in spaces of learning and collaboration. Emily makes interdisciplinary performances and is part of an ongoing artistic partnership with Hannah Krafcik. www.emilyannejones.com
Nuria Bowart is a contemporary dancer, teacher and certifier of the Axis Syllabus, multifaceted performer, a mother and a Capoeira Mestra. She is the founder of a school for contemporary arts practices called the Field Center, as well as an afro brazilian arts center called the Berkeley Capoeira Collective (BCC). She has dedicated over two decades to teaching movement, performing, and working one on one with clients. Her movement work is embedded in her knowledge of anatomy and basic physical principles that help to create ease and efficiency. Her consistent commitment to practice and research, serves as a source of inspiration and discovery. Nuria is inspired to move through the energy of the places and people she is with. www.nuriabowart.com
Carolina MarĂn is a Chilean dancer and transdisciplinary artist based in Brookyln. An Axis Syllabus teacher and Contact Improvisation practitioner, her work explores the convergence of dance, science, and the natural environment. Through movement research and education, she integrates textiles, wearables, architecture, sound, and nature to create collective experiences that expand the boundaries of the moving body.
Phoenicia Pettyjohn she/her- a longtime SF resident, movement artist, educator and certified Axis Syllabus teacher. She is faculty at the San Francisco Ballet School and teaching artist in the SF Ballet Dance in Schools and Communities Program. She is the rehearsal director/dramaturg for Catherine Galasso’s 10,000 Steps: A Dance About Its Own Making for ODC/Dance. Performance collaborators include Christy Funsch Dance, Catherine Galasso, Aura Fischbech, Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works and Risa Jaroslow. She has also worked with Miriam Wolordowski Sense Object, Rosemary Hannon, Susan Rethorst, Kira Kirsch and Honey McMoney among others and appeared in the works of Maguy Marin, David Dorfman, Neta Pulvermacher and Sara Shelton Mann. She is a longtime collaborator with Christy Funsch Dance, recently appearing in her 12 hour piece “Epoch”at ODC Theater and “Kid Subjunctive” at CounterPulse SF and New York City. A Certified teacher of the Axis Syllabus since 2015, she is a full-time body nerd, enthusiast and researcher. We still don’t know what the body can do.
Karola LĂĽttringhaus founded Alban Elved Dance Company (1994), SARUS Festival for Site-Specific & Experimental Art (2007), and MoRe Movement Research Festival & Summer School (2014). Merging American and European influences, their work is motivated by an inner need for expression as well as the notion that artists hold social responsibilities toward open and honest exchange and peaceful conviviality. For Karola, movement arts, as naturally investigative and immersive embodied-cognitive practices, are tremendously important to society, because they support moving toward free will, embodied liberation, and the decolonization of the psycho-physiological and the socio-political body. https://www.karolaluettringhaus.com
