Susan Sentler

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London

Registered Somatic Movement Practitioner & Therapist (UKSMDT)

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Susan has practiced globally in Dance for over 30 years and teaching in Higher Education since 1992, meriting Senior Lecturer in 2000. As performer, she danced with the second company ‘The Ensemble’ of the Martha Graham Dance Company in the 1980’s and has returned to performing with artists such as Tino Sehgal, Xavier le Roy, Doria Garcia and Jerome Bel in “The Show Must Go On”, with the Candoco Dance Company. Susan’s creative, pedagogic and research practice is inter/trans-disciplinary, anchored by a honed expanded somatic relationship to image. She has an ongoing collaborative research rooted in concept of ‘the fold’ with colleague Dr. Glenna Batson called The F/ol\d as Somatic/Artistic Practice. Current publications include the chapter The Liquid Architecture of Bodily Folding for the DeGruyter issue Symbolism 2019 Special Focus: Beyond Mind and a co-authored publications with Batson Human Origami: Uncovering meta-levels of corporeal embodiment through movement improvisation for Routledge. Another collaboration is that with musician, artist/coder and interdisciplinary scientific researcher Dr. Jamie Forth in the continuing research project MMCC (mediated/movement/choreographic/collaboration). In 2013, she received a Masters in Creative Practice, Dance Professional Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Susan focuses on gallery/museum contexts creating/collaborating on ‘responses’ or ‘activations’ within exhibitions as well as durational installations orchestrating moving/still image, objects, sound and absence/presence of the performing body. Susan has collaborated and worked with institutions such as the White Cube Gallery/UK, Whitechapel Gallery/UK and Hayward Gallery/UK, National Gallery Singapore, ArtScience Museum/SG, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, CCA (Centre of Contemporary Art Singapore) and DECK/SG. Her work has been exhibited, screened and/or performed in the UK, USA, Europe, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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