moving alchemy / being in the body
4-day workshop with Sara Shelton Mann
August 22-25, 2021 — 12:00P-3:00P EST
moving alchemy / being in the body
4-day workshop with Sara Shelton Mann
August 22-25, 2021 from 12:00PM-3:00PM EST
IN-PERSON @ THE NORTHAMPTON ARTS TRUST AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM!
*** Please bring proof of vaccination if you are attending in-person! ***
A beginning of basics again, we begin again and again, and as we begin again wisdom unfolds as a practice of practicing what we know.
Exploring physical, energetic, spiritual body through technical improvisation the week will unfold. Bring your questions. Contact? possible, energetic for sure.
study hall in the ruins
a performance by Sara Shelton Mann, Jesse Zaritt, and niall jones, in collaboration
August 21, 2021 at 7:00PM EST
IN-PERSON @ THE NORTHAMPTON ARTS TRUST AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM!
*** Please bring proof of vaccination if you are attending in-person! ***
a moment of passage into an interim that has no exit, or entrance/ we find ourselves mid-thought, aspirations hanging like fairies in the wind, feet dropping through ice, heart pounding while breathing in the silence of somewhere
a performance by Sara Shelton Mann, Jesse Zaritt, and niall jones, in collaboration
August 21, 2021 at 7:00PM EST
IN-PERSON @ THE NORTHAMPTON ARTS TRUST AND ONLINE VIA ZOOM!
*** Please bring proof of vaccination if you are attending in-person! ***
a moment of passage into an interim that has no exit, or entrance/ we find ourselves mid-thought, aspirations hanging like fairies in the wind, feet dropping through ice, heart pounding while breathing in the silence of somewhere
BIOS
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). 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.
