Embodied Movement

I offer classes and workshops on embodied movement for all kinds of groups, ranging from secondary school students to adult professionals. Whether training future facilitators or engaging first-time participants, in one-off or ongoing sessions, I tailor creative activities to the given social or academic context.

I use a specialized method of physical training, based on the world-renowned stage movement technique I studied at the Moscow Art Theater and the Vakhtangov Theatre Academy in Russia, which develops physical awareness, strength, coordination, balance, flexibility, acrobatic stunts and stage combat skills.

I also offer workshops and train students in research methods on the somatic practice that I have developed for embodied listening, moving-with other people’s stories, as a form of group resonance and response.

For more information, please email me: sarahashfordhart@gmail.com / sahart@wm.edu

Above: moving-with stories of forced disappearance in Colombia’s armed conflict at Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia, 2022

Above: moving-with stories of deportation from the US at International House, Davis, California, 2018

Above: moving-with stories of deportation from the US at Sol Collective in Sacramento, California 2018

Above: movement workshops with young people at Terra Ventura in Los Altos de Sucre, Venezuela 2011

Above: physical activities in workshops with ELATEP Youth Theater of Pudahuel, Santiago, Chile 2012

Above: movement training at Vakhtangov Academy in Moscow and workshops in Devon, England 2008-09