Hello

I'm Sarah Saxon. I create movement works in relationship with the land; weaving dance, writing, and visual art into embodied stories of place, memory, and connection.

This website is a home for a selection of my dance archives, in-progress works, and written reflections.

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Artistic Practice

My work centres on two intertwined inquiries:
• How land shapes the body: its physicality, psyche, and spirituality.
• How words move, and how movement can speak.

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I work across site-specific and studio environments through two core practices:
HikeDance and MemoryDance, both guided by environmental stimuli and the shifting relationship between body and place.

From these practices I have developed:
• Inhabitance I–V: five screen dances (2021)
• Environmental Stimuli as Choreographer of the Dancing Body: paper (2021)
• Inhabitance VI: experimental live performance (2022)

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I am currently developing two new performance works:
• Please Be Still My Darling: a solo exploring nostalgia, urgency, and ‘enoughness’ through poetry, memoir, and sound.
• Remnants Re-Made: a duet investigating the cyclical dialogue between text, speech, and movement.

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Murals & Visual Art

Alongside my choreographic work, I create murals and visual art that explore belonging and the layered stories held by place.
These pieces expand my embodied inquiries into painted form; translating movement, gesture, and memory into images that live with and within communities.

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Writing

Writing is both a practice and a partner to my movement work.
Poetry, personal narrative, and text-based devising appear throughout my creative process, and sometimes become the work themselves.

You can read selected pieces and reflections on my Writing & Blog page.

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Previous Works & Performance Highlights

My screen dance Tomatoes & Oranges was exhibited by the Ian Potter Gallery in 2020, and earlier explorations continue to inform my practice, including:
• 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)
• Reflective State (2019)

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Performance highlights include:
• Conspire (2023 – Caroline Ellis)
• Waiting Game (2022 – Phaedra Brown)
• Surge (2020 – Anouk van Dijk)
• MTAFU (2019 – Prue Lang)

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