about
Lauren is a movement artist, photographer, and writer, with a heart for community, healing, and transformation. Having been a photographer for 16 years, she expanded into community and nonprofit work founding a community home for artists in Charlottesville, VA and serving as community director (The Farm House 2015-2022) and has danced and trained with companies and collectives from coast to coast.
She has trained and danced with modern dance company, Inlet Dance Theatre, in Cleveland, OH studying the Erik Hawkins Modern Release Technique, Improvisation [Liz Lerman] and Non-Traditional Partnering. The grounding and storytelling nature of modern dance influences her work and teaching. She launched The Freedom Project Co, land-based, site specific dance research, creating collaborative works founded in research with color, light, sound, and frequency to promote freedom and healing. She has worked alongside dance therapists, inner healing prayer counselors and trauma survivors as a resource to release healing through dance.
She has created a faith-based and trauma informed Movement as Prayer workshop, a unique embodied practice that focuses on 7 different types of embodied prayer and moving with intention for healing.
Having experienced her own levels of healing and freedom through dance, she hopes to share that with others through teaching, workshops, writing, and resources. If you are interested working one on one with Lauren, apply to Embodied Movement Coaching or inquire about leading a workshop in your community.
She is researching and recovering land-based memory through dance, music, and storytelling, currently in Princeton, NJ in artist in residence.
