Charlotte Stickles is a movement artist and practitioner with an inquiry around how dance lives beyond its more traditional western performance and pedagogical settings. She has worked in various capacities as an artist, educator, and movement specialist, all in pursuit of expanding access and engagement with dance as both an art form and means of embodied expression and communication. Charlotte graduated from The Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance and is currently pursuing her Masters in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt Institute, where she is researching the therapeutic intersections of dance, nonverbal communication, and plant and animal intelligence. Charlotte continues to teach movement and ecosomatics in her community, through private training and workshops designed to guide participants into discovery, play, and felt integration with the natural world. In noticing the ephemeral and communicating the lived experience of a body, specifically through a lens of ecosomatics and ecology, Charlotte transfigures the boundaries of dance as a means to reimagine sustainable care and living in a shifting world.
Listen to Charlotte talk about her research on WGXC public radio with Miriam Atkin here ~
