Bio

Originally from Houston, Texas, Sarah Stanley is a dance artist and certified Reiki and Ilan Lev Method™ practitioner based in Stockholm, SE.  She received her dance training from SUNY Purchase (USA) and Taipei National University for the Arts (Taiwan).  Sarah has been based in New York, Berlin and Stockholm where she has worked with Jefta Van Dinther, Örjan Andersson, Punchdrunk’s Immersive production Sleep No More, Kat Válastur, Moritz Majce, Sigal Zouk, Gloria Höckner, Tiago Manquinho, John Heginbotham and Andrea Miller among others. As a teacher, Sarah has led workshops in Sweden, Germany, USA, Laos, Indonesia and the Philippines.  She is a founding member of FRAME, an association interested in the intersection between dance and well-being, with whom she produces the annual research residencies, facilitates movement exploration workshops and creates artistic work for performance. Sarah has been developing her own work since 2011 including Inscriptions (New York), Folia (Texas) and Wayward Wind (Wyoming).  Her work as a dance artist is greatly informed and inspired by her continuing research with Ilan Lev Method. She is a certified ILM practitioner and movement teacher, studying with Yaniv Mintzer and Ilan Lev through ILM Poland under the mentorship of Tzéela Rinsky in Berlin.