Workshop and Creation with Sarah Carlson

SUNDAY, MARCH 6th from 12 PM – 2:30 PM

Workshop and Creation with Sarah Carlson

Live Performance Opportunities on 3/19 and 3/20 for all workshop participants

CHI Movement Arts Center- 1316 S 9th St. Philadelphia, PA 19147

Pre-Registration is required

$15-$20 sliding scale

Proof of full vaccination is required to attend this event (2 weeks after final dose in primary series of mRNA vaccine or 2 weeks after 1st dose of J&J vaccine). If you have any questions, contact: [email protected]

Details:

Sarah Carlson, the founder of DanceLink, will lead a creative workshop that will explore the myriad ways our life paths intermingle, intersect or parallel one another for a time. Spatial exploration and personal movement stories will be interwoven into an improvisation score that is alive & changeable. Participants will then have the opportunity to perform this score at the Crossing Paths Collective show on March 19-20th at CHI Movement Arts Center (https://crosspath.eventbrite.com) alongside professional artists from Philadelphia, Allentown, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. All participants who can make the following tech and showtimes are welcome to perform: TECH: Sat 3/19 at 4:30pm, SHOWS: Sat 3/19 8pm (7pm call), Sun 3/20 4pm (3pm call)

Sarah Carlson is the Founder & Artistic Director of DanceLink, a project-based company which seeks to bridge people, ideas & understanding through the power of movement. Sarah danced professionally for 10 years in NYC with numerous companies including Alexandra Beller/Dances, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Clare Byrne Dance, Paul Mosley Dance and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. As an independent choreographer, her own work has been presented throughout the US at venues such as Gibney Dance in NYC, On the Boards in Seattle, and The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard as well as in Benin, Africa. Sarah is a co-director of the Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange & a licensed massage therapist. Sarah is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Cedar Crest College and has been on the dance faculty at Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, DeSales University, and the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2007, she completed a Fulbright Grant studying Vodou ritual dance in Benin, Africa furthering an on-going inquiry into sacred dance forms. In 2008, Sarah founded DanceLink to promote community and to use the wisdom of the body to unpack the big questions, often spiritual in nature. DanceLink’s projects have received funding from the Pennsylvania Partners for the Arts, the Cultural Coalition of Allentown, the Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange, the Lehigh Valley Engaged Humanities Consortium and the King County Arts Commission. Sarah received a BA in French and European Studies from Connecticut College and an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington.

Event Venue

CHI Movement Arts Dance Center, 1316 South 9th Street, Philadelphia, United States