Charlotte Stickles is an interdisciplinary movement artist, performer, and educator with an inquiry around how dance lives beyond its more traditional western performance and pedagogical settings.
She has worked in various capacities as a performer and movement specialist - as a creature performer in film, as a dancer and choreographer in music videos, and in collaborations with directors and playwrights on virtual and physical performance works. Charlotte has also presented her own work in galleries, public spaces, and on screens - and has spoken about her research in the field of dance and performance at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference, public radio, and at various sites and museums across the U.S., including the Roswell Contemporary Art Museum in Roswell, NM. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance and distinction in creative research, and has been performing and teaching movement to all ages and abilities for ten plus years.
She has since expanded into print and sound work - publishing zines and manuals, and designing soundscapes for artists to use in dance performance. All of her work seeks to create more legibility and access into a conversation around contemporary and postmodern dance, and how it centers and connects us to an embodied aliveness.
Communicating the ephemeral and celebrating work around, about, and centered in the experience of the human body is at the core of all the work Charlotte does. She is curious about reimagining the boundaries of communication and engagement with dance as both a social and philosophical art form, questioning how embodied awareness might influence a felt responsibility toward sustainable living in a shifting ecosystem.
Listen to Charlotte talk about her research on WGXC public radio with Miriam Atkin here ~