Colette Sadler

Colette Sadler is a Scottish dancer and choreographer. Trained in both Classical Ballet and Contemporay dance in London she worked Internationally as a dancer. Over the last 20 years she has produced over 19 original works that have been presented in International contexts for dance and visual art including Tanz Im August Berlin, Art Night London, Les Latitudes Contemporaines France, OGR Turin Italy and Tokyo Festival Japan amongst many others.

Other recent choreographic collaborations include “Androdengous - Portrait of a Naked Dancer”  by director Lola Arias commissoned by Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin. 4 x 10 choreographic commision for The National Dance company of Wales, UK and choreography for “Eternal Dawn” by Alexander Schubert. Coproduced by MUSICA! Strasbourg/Maillon & Kampnagel Hamburg. 
In Autumn 2026 she will present her work Learning From The Future in Munich as part of a symposium on the intersection of human and non human movement.

Forschungsfelder und -interessen

Sadler's work operates at the intersection of dance, performance, sculpture and digital art.  Her multi disciplinary choreographic work focuses on the transformative power of the human body - imagined through its relationship and interconnectedness with the non-human. Using fiction and imaginaries connected to hybridity and the future, the bodies in her works transcend boundaries: between living and dead, real and virtual, past and future, organic and artificial. She often develops her movement language, choreography and context based on building prototypical bodies. 

Since 2016 she has been developing "Present Futures”, a bi-annual cycle of curatorial events exploring themes of speculative futures and post-disciplinarity in collaboration with The Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow UK, Glasgow University, Glasgow School of Art, GoMa (Glasgow Mueum), Goethe Institute, Pro Helvetia, Kings College London and Scottish Dance Theatre. Invited artists include Adam Linder, Miranda Pennell, Keiken, Daria Martin and Ian Kaler amongst many others. 

Ausgewählte künstlerische Projekte
 
“Terminal Infinity” collaboration with Alexander Schubert for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Biennale “Paradise Lost” 2025. Coproduced by Dance On Ensemble and Sasha Waltz and guests. 

“The Violet Hour” 2025/ 2026

“ARK 1” 2021- ongoing
toastercph.dk/show/ark-1/
Lecture May 2026 at the Royal Danish Academy of Visual Arts in collaboration with “Toaster” 

“Learning From The Future” 2017 - ongoing

Lecture January 2026 in collaboration with Dans OX, Oxford University. UK 

Present Futures selected projects
presentfutures.org/pleasure-ecologies-a-panel-discussion/
presentfutures.org/other-futures/
presentfutures.org/steady-body/
presentfutures.org/carrion/
presentfutures.org/geomancer/
 

CAIRON 12 Body and Architecture “The Making of Doubt”

TANZ IM AUGUST Magazine “Algorythmic Hallucination”