Hello! I’m Sarah Sea Clarke. 

I am passionate about all things movement, whether moving my body in space, what's moving within, what’s moving around us, in our world or the moving images that I capture. Since 2008 I have been actively weaving bodymind movement practices and humanitarian filmmaking in counterbalance, for self and collective wellbeing.

Currently I run a weekly 8am conscious dance party, Morning Glory and regular somatic dance classes, Tanz für Körper-Geist-Bewusstsein at Klangbäckerei in Mödling. I am a lead-researcher of the Institute for Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC) Vienna CoLab based at die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) and a co-host of WUK Contact Improvisation Jam Vienna.

As a dance researcher and movement teacher I am concerned with the senses for somatic communication and priming the embodied physical state. I cultivate presence and dynamic movement in order to be able to play more seriously within dance improvisation contexts with self, others and the environment. In turn I share this passion by teaching and facilitating groups locally or internationally with academics, charities, NGOs, aid-workers and others in humanitarian crisis situations.

My background as a humanitarian social documentary filmmaker and being based in the Middle East for a decade, has largely influenced my worldview, current understanding of the human condition and the need for dance and movement practices. Whilst in the U.A.E. I co-founded and tended to the Contact Improvisation scene, hosting regular classes and jams, taught at festivals in the region and offered dance retreats in deserts and mountains. In Austria I’ve been a guest lecturer and movement teacher of my Embodied Practices for Self and Collective Well-Being course at Innsbruck University’s Peace & Conflict Studies MA Programme, as well as teaching Embodied Activism through the Tipping Points: Skills and Methoden für Soziale Bewegungen platform.

I have professional dance education ‘Dance as a Research Practice’ from Movement Artisans (Berlin), am certified as a Holistic Dance Teacher by the Holistic Dance institute (Austria), certified a facilitator of the Work The Reconnects Network (USA) and hold a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Professional Broadcasting from Ravensbourne University London (UK).

Capoeira, Contact Improvisation dance, Authentic Movement, Axis Syllabus, Action Theater, ensemble practices and living systems thinking are central influences to my approach. A red thread within my work is connecting inner with outer, drawing on the felt sense of the bodymind to guide movement within the individual and the collective.