Sarah Silverblatt-Buser is a dancer, director, choreographer, educator and writer raised by New Mexican skies.
As director and creator, she is leading the Atlas V produced Virtual Reality experience Collective Body, commissioned by Lincoln Center and supported by the French CNC. She recently choreographed an interdisciplinary concert relating the music of Steve Reich with the French street art of parkour for the ensemble Les Apaches. She also choreographed and performed in motion capture in an Augmented Reality experience for the Musée d’Orsay, directed by Gordon.
For fall 2023, she was Artist-in-Residence at the Movement Lab at Barnard College of Columbia University while serving as an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dance Department. She created two courses: Dance Improvisation and Digital Performance, exploring topics of embodiment, presence, VR/AR, immersion and the future with her undergraduate students from across Columbia University.
As a performer, Sarah tours internationally with acclaimed cirque artist Yoann Bourgeois. She has danced in commercial videos ranging from fashion to public service and most recently performed at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards with Harry Styles. Sarah also dances throughout France with Compagnie 47-49, directed by François Veyrunes. In NYC, she performed works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Richard Isaac, Larry Keigwin, Claudia Schreier and Colleen Thomas.
Sarah uses written language to translate and expand on movement languages. She has written for the Aspen Institute, Pam Tanowitz Dance, the Vail Daily, and the Vail Dance Festival Magazine, where she served as chief editor.
Before committing herself entirely to her artistic work, she held positions at major cultural institutions including the Aspen Institute Arts Program, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Vail Dance Festival, and as assistant to Damian Woetzel, the current president of the Juilliard School.
Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her dance training ranges from the Boston Ballet and LINES Ballet to professional intensives with Batsheva’s Ohad Naharin and the Merce Cunningham Trust.
She is a member of Onassis ONX, an accelerator for a global community of member artists who create immersive XR and AI works. Paris is her landing spot.
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**Collective Body is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Collective Body must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
