Sacred Sunday – Living Art, Raw Material and Self-as-Sacred-Place – with Claire Elizabeth Barratt – Virtual

The Sacred Dance Guild continues to offer Sacred Sunday experiences monthly – generally on the 2nd Sunday of the month and generally at 7:30 pm Eastern time (but always flexible!!) A program that began during the pandemic continues because we CAN, not because we MUST! These sessions are intimate, interactive and informative free to the participants, gifted to the Sacred Dance Guild “village” by the presenter and coordinated by the SDG as a way to CONNECT us one to another around the globe!  NOTE: As or “flexible” selves – this month is the FIRST sunday and OUR time is 2:30 pm Eastern (which is 7:30 pm in England where our facilitator is!) DO check time in your local time zone!!

To register send email to pres@sacreddanceguild.org with “Sacred Sunday – Claire Elizabeth Barratt ” in the subject line. The Zoom link will be sent to you the day before the session.

In this session we examine the Self as “Living Art”, the raw materials of the self in relationship with the raw materials of time, space, energy and the elements. We explore the Self as Sacred Place – the location of our dwelling and experience and interactions – physical and spiritual.

*Self – made in the image of the Divine, we are also creators.
*Self – body and psyche – as Raw Materials with which to create.
*Self – as aesthetic being – our presence and countenance.
*Self – as Sacred Place we inhabit, where transformation occurs … transcendence of Self.

Over the hour, Claire will guide a series of movement meditations.
Participants are free to respond at their own individual pace.

Meditation Themes:
BODY = ELEMENT = EFFECT
Breath = Air = Openness Expansion Awareness
Weight = Earth = Stability Support Security
Vibration = Fire = Inspiration Stimulation Motivation
Joints = Water = Fluidity Peace Healing

Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is a British interdisciplinary and performative artist based in the USA. She is the director of international arts organization Cilla Vee Life Arts, established Bronx NY 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from he home in Asheville, NC since 2020. She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University where she developed the Living Art performance pedagogy. She was a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and a Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee and performed as a dancer for Unto These Hills outdoor drama on the Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina. Claire has presented work through organizations such as Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Bronx Council on the Arts, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has been a member and facilitator with the international Sacred Dance Guild since 1997 – becoming a SDG Legacy Project accredited facilitator in 2024. Much of her work is collaborative, durational and improvisational – often in the form of multi-disciplinary installation. She has performed and taught throughout the USA and in Canada, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. See Website: cillavee.org

Note – Claire – along with with Linda Mary Montano will be presenting this as an in person collaborative workshop for Religion & Art conference at Holy Trinity in London, England on Wednesday May 7th. See Living Art, Raw Material and Self-as-Sacred-Place with Claire Elizabeth Barratt (in person) – Sacred Dance Guild  There will be a video available afterwards so do watch for that!

We are blessed to have Claire dancing in from England gifting us her presence with a generosity of spirit that flows through the Sacred Dance global village!