Chunky Move is located on the unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations. We respectfully acknowledge the significant contributions of Australia’s First Peoples, and are committed to supporting the continuity of culture and relationship to this land.
Sarah Aiken
Sarah Aiken is a dancer, teacher, performer and choreographer whose work investigates 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 has presented work for Dancehouse (Housemate Resident XIV), The Substation/LGI, Brisbane Festival, Next Wave, Arts House, Keir Choreographic Awards (finalist 2014 & 2016), Victorian College of the Arts, Metro Arts Brisbane, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie (Paris), and Dancemakers Toronto. Sarah is an Australia Council artist in resident at HIAP, Helsinki. Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats working with Rebecca Jensen to create work that engages rigorously with participation, scale, waste and reckless formalism, and recycles content to consider materiality and how we come together. Recent works include What Am I Supposed To Do? (WAISTD) (Arts Centre Melbourne 2019), Underworld (2017) and and the shape-shifting participatory project Deep Soulful Sweats (2014-ongoing)
Sarah’s class brings together imaginative and anatomical information, thinking inside and outside the body. We will be practical and treat ourselves well, dance with the bodies we have and find possibilities we never knew we had. With a gradual warm up of body and mind, this class will give you new tools and plenty of preparation in the lead up to some expansive phrase material.