A native San Franciscan, Sarah got her start tap dancing
at convalescent homes at age 8. After being accepted into the intensive program at The Ailey School in New York, she left
the Bay Area as a Cultural Anthropology student, to pursue dance.
She was later awarded a scholarship to The Broadway
Dance Center in NYC and studied under Madame Darvash and Bill Hastings. This led to work with Jostyn and Yagi Productions,
Sapporo Byokai Ballet in Japan, and with Graham protegee Marie Christine Giordano. After traveling the world for many years,
she found her dance family once again in S.F.
Sarah has been a faculty member and 20 year student at the San Francisco
Dance Center, where she trained with Ballet Masters Arturo Fernandez and Summer Lee Rhatigan. She also had the pleasure
to work with Dance Through Time as a wardrobe assistant accompanying them on their East Coast tour. Sarah has designed
costumes for Dark Porch Theater, Fou Fou Ha! Liminal Dance Theater, and her own productions.
1999 -Presented
two works, one collaborative ensemble and one solo at The Cowell Theatre.
Performed at Dance Mission
with Spinning Yarns Dance Collective
Cabaret performer at Victoria Theater with Spectacles Productions
1999-2001 Soloist with Landini Dance Company
2001- Commissioned
to choreograph ongoing cabaret act "Pixie"
Dancer with Liminal Dance Theatre
2002-Performed at ODC with Spinning Yarns Dance Collective
2004-Returned
to The Bay Area after living in Mexico and curated "Juice -The Pulp Diaries of Everyday Artists." Both shows were
presented at The Jon Sims Center for the Arts.
Performed with Christine Cali's company
in "The Sound That Comes Out" as actor/dancer/singer
2005-2007 Member of Vau de Vire
Society as character actor, dancer, and fire performer
Dancer with Landini Dance Company
2008 Granted first artists' residency at 975 Howard/The Garage and curated the show Bending Sinister,
which included her works-in-progress as well as work from Dark Porch Theatre and Fou Fou Ha!
Dancer
in Oakland Opera Theatre's "Renard" and "L'Histoire du Soldat"
2009
Joined Dark Porch Theatre as a lead actor/singer/dancer in the hit musical The InBetweens.
2010
Granted a second residency at The Garage and presented an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's "Laughter in the Dark".
Dancer/actor in Dark Porch Theatre's award-winning play "Cockroach"
2011 Supporting actor/dancer and costume designer in Dark Porch Theatre's "Eleanor"
Granted third residency at The Garage for the presentation of The Age of Reason.