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YOU / director, creator, performer, writer, wizard. 5 days of play
with SARA SHELTON MANN
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JUNE 15-19, 2020
Monday - Friday, 4-5:30pm EDT



It is where creation, inquiry, philosophy, consciousness meet that I am inspired. The space where intuition meets form and content is where I thrive.

The end product is not the end result nor is the spectacle the desire.

There is a space between this world and that which we meet that ignites a fire, an antigravity, a movement of Soul in body with spirit, 2 simultaneous realities. It is magic.

My training has been in dance/contact dance, dowsing, metaphysics and healing modalities. I have a toolbox that I have developed over the years filled with puzzles (movement, writing, imagination, energy transmission, transparency and composition) dedicated to awakening. 


Artistic Statement for 2020
Now I find is a moment of reset, to view my hypnotism of what was normal and potentially wake up. It is clear that my thoughts and actions reach far beyond my own energy field. What I teach and know to be true is not theory. Now is the time to connect to the consciousness of the earth, to be in gratitude and humility and express such. Our minds are like great transmitters through time and space and like a boomerang our intentions return to us. Here we are singular and connected. The stillness can be a bit disconcerting, yet I have the opportunity to go swimming in the void and reflect upon the miracle of life, the child awakes. And now we awake to another calling to see, feel and hear the pain of those who have endured unbelievable injustice. May the world stop and have the courage to befriend and listen to the pain and embrace equality and justice for those who have not had it and for all.



SARA SHELTON MANN
Sara Shelton Mann has been a choreographer, performer, and teacher since 1967. She was a protégé of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in New York City before moving to Canada where she met Andrew Harwood and fell in love with Contact Improvisation.

In 1979 she moved to San Francisco to work with Mangrove, now Mixed Bag Productions, for which she serves as artistic director. One of its early manifestations was the company Contraband, launched as a performance group and research ground combining the principles of contact, systems of the body and spiritual practice into a unified system of research.

Among her awards are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 7 Isadora Duncan Awards, including a special achievement award for “erasing time: celebrating 30 years a radical dance legend” (Sara Shelton Mann with David Szlasa and Norman Rutherford), Djerassi Artist in Residence Awards, Headlands Center for the Arts Residency 2016, Lifetime Achievement Bay Guardian Award, 10 Women Who Made a Difference, Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016).
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Her Movement Alchemy training is an ongoing teaching project and is influenced by certifications and studies in the metaphysical and healing traditions. Sara’s performance work is a platform for collaboration and research in consciousness.


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