Artmaking as embodied enquiry entering the fold

Susan Sentler (BA, MACP) is an independent dance artist/maker working as choreographer, teacher, researcher, director and performer. She served as senior lecturer with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for 18 years and has taught globally in the field of dance for over 30 years. Susan’s practice is multidisciplinary, rooted in the somatic image, creating ‘responses’ within gallery/museum contexts as well as durational installations, weaving body, objects, sound, moving and still image. Her work has been exhibited and performed in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Asia. Currently, she is a lecturer of dance at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.

Glenna Batson (PT, Sc.D., MA) is an independent researcher/lecturer in dance, Somatics and science. For the past 35 years, she has honed a trans-disciplinary approach to the study of embodied cognition by bridging dance, science and somatic studies. Glenna is professor emeritus of physical therapy at Winston-Salem State University (USA) and is an internationally recognized teacher of the Alexander Technique. Her current research focuses on the neuro-phenomenology of imagery in movement creation. She recently authored Body and Mind in Motion: Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation and co-edited Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives.