Steve Clorfeine

Steve Clorfeine has been teaching, performing, and writing since 1974.  He is one of the founding arts faculty at Naropa University in Colorado where he also directed the summer dance/theater program and the year round theater department for several years. He’s taught at SUNY New Paltz in various departments including SUNY’s prison education projects. Steve directs Shambhala Training, Buddhist Studies, and Dharma Art courses. He was Int’l Director of Shambhala Art, co-founder of Sky Lake meditation center and has taught at Shambhala Centers in the U.S. and Europe. After co-directing Naropa University’s Study Abroad Program in Nepal, he began teaching theater in Nepal and India and received Cultural Envoy grants from the U.S. for extended performance work in Calcutta and in Kathmandu. Steve has produced scores of performances over a period of 30 years with Lanny Harrison and collaborated with the arts team of the Shambhala Institute (later A.L.I.A.), with musicians Steve Gorn, Jerry Granelli; jazz singer Jay Clayton, tap jazz legend Brenda Bufalino, and dancers Wendell Beavers, Nancy Stark Smith and Barbara Dilley. For 10 years, Steve was a member of Meredith Monk’s company and concurrently a member of Ping Chong’s Fiji company, performing throughout Europe and the U.S. Steve is the recipient of a NYFA fellowship, an OBIE award, Poets and Writers grants and a film award from the Atlanta Festival for the Arts. His non-fiction book on Nepal, In The Valley of the Gods, was published by Station Hill Press (2000) and 6 poetry collections published (1994-2023). He co-directed the documentary film Voices of the New Belarus which premiered in 2022 at the Hong Kong festival, ‘Art on the Edge: Fear Not.’ A collection of 13 stories, ‘Home and Away,’ is available from ‘Open House Press.’

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