Sarah Aiken is a Naarm based artist, performer and choreographer from Bellingen NSW. Her work investigates assemblage, authorship, scale and self, looking at the roles of audience, performer, subject and object and connecting tangibly with audiences, to consider performance as a site for empathy & exchange.
Recent work Make Your Life Count (Greenroom Award winner) premiered at Arts House, Melbourne in 2022 (Platform Arts, PICA Perth and Sydney Dance Company) and video presentations at Federation Square, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, MCA, and Frame Biennial of Dance. Other works include Spanning (Soft Centre X Chunky Move ACTIVATORS 2024), Demake/Demaster (STRUT 2022), Piece for pieces (PIECES LGI/The Substation 2019), and SARAHAIKEN (Keir Choreographic Award 2016).
Sarah is co-director of Deep Soulful Sweats, working with Rebecca Jensen for 10 years across the world, inviting audiences into cathartic and thoughtful performative experiences, including their participatory zodiac dance Deep Soulful Sweats, durational line dance meets hardstyle Crystal Touch, and theatre-based works What Am I Supposed To Do? (Arts Centre Melbourne 2019, Winner Melbourne Festival Discovery Award), Underworld (Darebin Arts 2017) and Overworld (Next Wave 2013, Dance Massive 2014).
Sarah was artist-in-residence at Helsinki International Artists Program, Dancenorth, and Centre for Projection Art. She is a grateful recipient of the Creators Fund, and the Chloe Munro Fellowship.