Modern/Contemporary Morning Class | Instructor
Sayer Mansfield grew up in the woods of Massachusetts where she was raised part in the garden and part in her mother’s yoga studio. Movement and nature have been the love language from the get-go. Sayer is dancer, choreographer and teacher who has spent the past decade dancing with Pilobolus Dance Theater and Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Montreal, QC.) Sayer holds a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, a BA from Trinity Laban (UK,) is a 500hr RYT, and has been teaching movement for over 16 years. Sayer has been an adjunct faculty member and guest artist at Jacob’s Pillow, Phillips Academy Andover, Roger Williams University, Harvard and Yale. After a decade of dancing with professional contemporary companies, she is committed to the exploration of independent creation and teaching. Sayer has presented her work at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, ART CAKE (Brooklyn, NY) and The Foundry West Stockbridge. Sayer is the creator of INNERSTANDING (www.innerstanding.space)—an online platform that holds a digital library of her unique movement practices for embodied living. She is currently dancing with The Metropolitan Opera, as a guest artist with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and working as a freelance artist based in the Hudson Valley and New York City.