A.R.T. | 2022

Sarah Aitken

About

Sarah Aitken is a Melbourne based teacher and choreographer from Bellingen NSW whose work investigates assemblage, authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy & exchange.

Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats, working with Rebecca Jensen to create work that engages rigorously with participation, waste and a reckless formalism, recycling content to consider materiality and how we come together. Sarah is an active contributor to the dance sector and community across Australia, organizing with and advocating for a broad community of dance artists, movers and makers.

Sarah has presented work nationally and internationally including Dance Massive, Arts Centre Melbourne, Castlemaine State Festival, Dancehouse (Housemate Resident XIV), The Substation/LGI, Keir Choreographic Awards (finalist 2014 & 2016), VCA, Brisbane Festival, PICA, Ian Potter Museum, Immigration Museum, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie (Paris), and Dancemakers Toronto.

An Australia Council artist in resident at HIAP, Helsinki, and a recipient of the Creators Fund and Performance Space Micro-fellowship, Sarah has an expanded choreographic practice and is developing new works for stage, screen and gallery.

Interview with Sarah Aitken