Sara Shelton Mann moved to New York City and began dancing at 21. She toured with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in the 1960s. She moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia to find out what she would create without NYC, developing an interdisciplinary approach to creativity and art making. She moved to San Francisco, California in 1979 and created a group, Contraband, bringing together artists and disciplines into an experimental performance research group. The desire was enlightenment through art/healing.
Among her achievements are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 6 Isadora Duncan Awards, multiple Djerassi Artist in Residence Awards, a Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, a Lifetime Achievement Bay Guardian Award, a 10 Women Who Made a Difference Bay Guardian Award and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Sara has practiced dowsing as a healing modality since 2010, is a Master NLP practitioner, and has a Master Certification in Intuition Medicine. She holds a certification as a Shamanic QiGong Practitioner. Her Moving Alchemy training is an ongoing teaching project and is influenced by certifications and studies in the metaphysical and healing traditions over many years. Sara’s performance work is a platform for collaboration and research in consciousness.
11.03.2024
