SHELLEY SENTER is an independent dance artist and long-time Movement Research faculty whose work has been presented throughout North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, China, Russia and Australia. She has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Bebe Miller, Deborah Hay, David Thomson, Wally Cardona, Maria Hassabi, Axis Dance Company (a mixed-ability company) and LOWER LEFT Performance Collective, among others. Senter is an alum of the Trisha Brown Company, performing, restaging and transmitting this work worldwide, with companies such as the Stephen Petronio Company, Lyon Opera Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Ballet de Lorraine, the National Academy of Dance in Rome and at the Centres George Pompidou, Barbican and Royaument Abbey. A repetiteur of Yvonne Rainer’s TRIO A, she has been presented as a “living archive” of the seminal choreography of Rainer, Brown and others in autobiographical performance-lectures at MoMA, the Tate Modern, Berliner Festival, with Boris Charmatz/Musee de la Danse and with Cori Olinghouse. Her work is deeply informed by the principles of the Alexander Technique, which she has been exploring and teaching for more than thirty years to dancers, musicians, actors and other human beings at numerous institutions such as Sarah Lawrence, Mills and Reed Colleges, The New School, Juilliard, NYU, Rutgers University, the Universities of Utah, Colorado, California and North Carolina, Cal Arts, UCSD, the American Dance Festival, SFADI, and at the Clown Conservatory of the San Francisco Circus School. Internationally, she has taught at P.A.R.T.S. in Belgium, CND and CNDC in France, La Manufacture in Switzerland, La Biennale di Venezia in Italy, Casa Hoffman in Brazil, Tripotamus Arts in Greece, Circuit Est in Canada, ArtEz in the Netherlands, DOCH in Sweden, Las Bellas Artes in Mexico and Impuls Tanz in Austria, where she was honored at the US Embassy in Vienna for her distinct approach to movement, performance and pedagogy. Senter maintains a private practice in New York City, internationally and online.
