Colette Sadler (1974) is a British choreographer and dancer. She trained firstly in Classical Ballet followed by completing a BA (Hons) at the Laban centre, London.
From 94-2002 she worked across Europe as a dancer. In 94-95 she was a member of Transitions dance company at Laban in London working with, amongst others, choreographers Amanda miller and Sung Soo Ahn. Since 95 she has worked as a performer for choreographers including Liz Aggiss and Billie Cowie, Jeremy James, Wayne MacGregor, Gary Stevens, Ted Stoffer, Bebeto de Cidra and was a member of Cia Vicente Saez Spain (1997-2000)
In 2002 she started to develop her own choreographic work taking part in the interdisciplinary workshop ‚MUGAXTOAN‘ at Arteleku San Sebastian / Serralves Foundation Porto. In the following year she was granted a residency at Le Cite Internationale Des Arts and was awarded a Creative Scotland award. Between 2002-2006 she focused on solo work with commissions from TRAMWAY Dark Lights and National Review of Live Art 2004. In 2006 she began to partly base herself in Berlin.
Since 2007 she starts to focus on choreography for groups initiating new collaborations with dancers, writers and artists from other disciplines. Her works dDumY – another myself (Tramway co-production), The Making of Doubt (Tramway co-production) and Musical (NPN national performance netz Germany co-production) have been presented throughout Europe including alongside British Art show 7, Something Raw Festival Amsterdam, Performatik09 Kaai theatre Brussels, Sophien Saele Berlin and Impuls Tanz 8:tension Vienna Austria. In 2008-09 she was international associate artist in residency at Dance House in Dublin.n 2n 2011 she is developing her latest work ‘I not I’ co-produced by South Bank Centre London/ Jardin D’Europe network and will develop her first work especially for a young audience as part of ‘Take off Junger tanz” in Dusseldorf. She also regularly teaches, gives talks and writes about her work in a range of contexts including at HZT Berlin and RSAMD Glasgow.
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