2010-2011 Lab Artist

Candice Salyers

Candice Salyers is a choreographer and performer who creates intimate interactions with audiences, landscapes, and architectural spaces. Her work welcomes viewers to explore the moving body as a site and process for outgrowing limiting perceptions of human nature. As a performer, she has enjoyed dancing with a variety of choreographers, including Li Chiao-Ping and Victoria Marks. Her interest in connecting dance to the community of Memphis, Tennessee led her to found pARTners, a volunteer organization of artists, for which she won the Alma Bucovaz Award for Urban Service in 2001. She has also pursued a commitment to performance marathons as a way of raising funds for food banks in New England. Her solo performance work has been presented recently by New England Foundation for the Arts, Bates Dance Festival, Wesleyan Center for the Arts, and the Ko Festival of Performance.

Originally from Nashville, her early career aspirations were to become a preacher and/or magnanimous. Performance practices allow her to work with aspects of each. In conjunction with her performance work, Salyers is currently based in Northampton Massachusetts and also teaches and is pursuing a Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University. Recent publications include articles in Tanz, Bewegung, und Spiritualität (Henschel Verlag 2009) and “Proceedings from Sustainability, Ecology, and the Moving Body Conference” (Northumbria University, UK). Her performance and research interests involve desire as a productive force and performance as an event of love.

Learn more about Candice Salyers at www.candicesalyers.com

photos Intro: Jon Crispin | Above: Cathy Couch