SARAH AIKEN
Sarah Aiken
(Tools for personal expansion)
Sarah Aiken (Tools for personal expansion)
Concept/choreography: Sarah Aiken
Performers: Claire Leske, Emily Robinson, Daniel Arnott and Sarah Aiken
Sound: Daniel Arnott
Lighting Design: Amelia Lever-Davidson
Sarah Aiken's work absorbs and extends space. In Sarah Aiken (Tools for Personal Expansion), Sarah's choreography transgresses the limits of her body to consider the politics and possibilities of space, reworking the self through social, digital and physical means. In this work, Sarah examines the ways in which our physicality, including digital, conditions the manners in which we project ourselves and act upon the world. Whether large or small, the body's relationship to space is both personal and political. Sarah uses people, devices, technology and matter, as well as movement, to extend her reach to contract, expand and multiply personal power.
SARAH AIKEN is a Melbourne based performer, choreographer and teacher originally from Bellingen, NSW. Sarah pursues an ongoing interest in how and what we value, utilising dichotomies and clashes, aiming to create poignancy through absurdity. Through solo and collaborative practice, her work investigates the roles of audience, performer, subject and object. Performance credits include work by Maria Hassabi, Natalie Abbott, Jo Lloyd, Shian Law, Carlee Mellow, James Welsby, Brooke Stamp and Aphids, Deanne Butterworth/Linda Tegg, Ben Speth and Eliza Dyball. Sarah's choreographic work includes SET (Dancehouse Housemate Residency 2015) Three Short Dances (Keir Choreographic Award, Dancehouse, Carriageworks 2014), Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie. Paris, 2015, Artshouse 10th Anniversary 2015), Set (Lucy Guerin Inc. Piece's for Small Spaces, 2013, EDC Solo Festival of Dance 2014) Jurassic Arc (Dancehouse, Melbourne Fringe 2012, K77, Berlin 2012),) as well as a range of collaborative and interdisciplinary projects across music, live art, film, photography and visual arts. Together with Rebecca Jensen, Sarah has created OVERWORLD (Next Wave Festival 2014, Dance Massive 2015), Deep Soulful Sweats; a participatory, yogic, disco (Next Wave Festival/Speakeasy 2014, FOLA 2014, Dark MOFO 2014, Chunky Move (ongoing) and Upacara/Ritual (Dark MOFO 2015).
Dancehouse, Melbourne - March 2016 - all rights reserved
Documentation by Cobie Orger.