This website contains a portion of Sarah Saxon’s dance archives, and her blog.

 

Sarah’s artistic practices focus on two key areas:

• The examination of land’s influence on human physicality, psyche, and spirituality through writing, painting, and dance.

• The integration of written and spoken word with movement.

 

She has a pair of site- and studio- situated practices; HikeDance and MemoryDance. Both engage with environmental stimuli as choreographic guides for dancers. From these practices she has produced five screen dances, Inhabitance I-V (2021), a paper, Environmental Stimuli as Choreographer of the Dancing Body (2021), and an experimental performance of MemoryDance, Inhabitance VI (2022). Elements of each can be found on this website.

 

In addition, she is working on two performance pieces: Please Be Still My Darling, a solo that uses poetry, memoir, and sound to explore nostalgia, urgency, and the idea of ‘enoughness,' and Remnants Re-Made, a duet that explores the dynamic between text, speech and movement in an ongoing, cyclical process.

 

Sarah’s short film Tomatoes & Oranges was screened by the Ian Potter Gallery in 2020 and can be viewed on this site. Her other choreographic works include Landscape, its subconscious influence on bodies, collecting it all in text… and other things (2020, Royal Botanic Gardens), Heavy Feet Feet, And So It Has Always Been (2019), and Reflective State (2019).

 

Among many more, Sarah’s performance highlights include Conspire (2023, Caroline Ellis), Waiting Game (2022, Phaedra Brown), Surge (2020, Anouk van Dijk) and MTAFU (2019, Prue Lang).