Sally Charlton is Glasgow based artist, director and facilitator working across live performance, choreography and social practice.
Grappling with the extremes of human emotion; grief, joy and desire, her work focuses on finding a sense of universality in these states, creating a sense of ‘in it together’-ness for audiences. Sally is interested in how the bringing together of people’s experiences provides a gateway to understanding the wider modern world. Her hope is that live performance provides ephemeral fertile communities that unite in their shared experiences and aliveness, forging solidarity in the face of violence and rampant individualism; ‘to stress that we are people occupying the same world as you with the same desire to work things out.’ (Gob Squad).
Sally graduated from the Contemporary Performance Practice BA at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with First Class Honours and the award for Drama in Education and Cove Park Graduate Award. Since graduating, she’s had her work Mother's Milk programmed by Summerhall for Fringe 2021 and was commissioned to create Cumbernauld Theatre's Early Years Winter Production Life of the Party. As research for this work, she attended Tweetakt Festival in Utrecht, supported by Imaginate. She’s an Associate Artist at Cove Park and has run workshops for young people on site in Ecological Performance Making. Sally regularly collaborates with 21Common, The Necessary Space, Plato Cultural and is a lead artist at Platform with their Young Company. She’s recently been in residence with Inverclyde Culture Collective at the Beacon Arts Centre developing a new work Stop Showing Off and touring with Mamoru Iriguchi in his work Sex Education Explorers (S.E.X). In Autumn 2023, Sally led Shapeshifter, Scottish Youth Theatre’s devising programme for young artists in Aberdeen.
Image by Celine Antal