Sarah Aiken
Sarah Aiken is a Melbourne based performer, choreographer and teacher. Through solo and collaborative practice, Sarah’s work investigates authorship, scale and the self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy and exchange. Sarah has presented work for Arts Centre Melbourne, Dance Massive, Dancehouse (Housemate Resident XIV), Castlemaine Festival, Brisbane Festival, Next Wave Festival, Keir Choreographic Awards (finalist 2014 and 2016), VCA, Darebin Arts, Les Plateaux de la Briqueterie (Paris), and Dancemakers Toronto. Sarah was a 2017 danceWEB scholar at Impulstanz Vienna, and in 2020 is an Australia Council artist-in-residence at HIAP, Helsinki.