Sheryl Saterstrom
Assistant Professor of Dance
Department Vice Chair
Office: 309 Dittmann Center
Phone: 507-786-3024
saterstr@stolaf.edu
B.A., St. Olaf College
M.A., Arizona State University
Certified Body-Mind Centering Practitioner
- Body Moveable/Somatics
- Power Play
- Improvisation Ensemble
Sherry Saterstrom has helped shape the life of the dance program at St. Olaf College since the late 1960’s when she was a student here. A twist of fate brought her back as a guest artist and teacher after completing a Master’s Degree in Dance/Humanities at Arizona State University. Over the years her fascination with in
vention has yielded classes such as The Body Movable, Power Play, The Beat Goes On, Movement as a Metaphor, Improvisation as Practice and Performance. In 2000 with a growing passion for improvisation in movement technique and performance, she invented The Improvisation Ensemble. This group continues to re-invent itself with each new season of possibility.
Between1978-84 Sherry created and co-directed Dance Co’Motion, a modern dance company whose work was focused in the Artist-in-Residence program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the years she has enjoyed performing with other dance artists--- Maria Cheng and Dancers, Paula Mann, Bill T. Jones, Lovice Weller, Deborah Hay, Body Cartography---and learning from their artistic visions.
As a seeker of new adventures in 2001 Sherry developed a workshop, ”Dance in the Rainforest” at a biological field station in the rainforest of Costa Rica. The workshop intends to pull dancers and movement artists out of their more controlled environments and challenge their notions of dance. It aims for personal and artistic discovery through navigating unfamiliar terrain.
Since 1984 Sherry has focused her training in the area of body-mind studies as it relates to movement, dance and the learning process. She is a certified Body-Mind Centering practitioner and includes meditation, Authentic Movement, yoga, Contact and movement improvisation in her ongoing physical practice.
