Choreographic Work

Sarah has choreographed several works focused on immersive and site-specific experiences, bringing movement and dance outside of the traditional theater setting to a wider public. During COVID, Sarah choreographed and performed in Augmented Reality in The Little Dancer for the Musée d’Orsay. This encounter with director Gordon lead to choreographing parkour artists and acrobats to the music of Steve Reich for l’Ensemble les Apaches.

Sarah is currently directing Collective Body, a multi-user, interactive experience in Virtual Reality that she conceived of in 2021. Her work aims to connect disparate disciplines and people through movement.

Sarah choreographed and performed in motion capture in The Little Dancer, an augmented reality experience created by Gordon & Marie Sellier. The work brings Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer to life as she welcomes children along a fantastical journey through artworks displayed in the museum. This first episode was a co-production between Lucid Realities Studio and the Musée d’Orsay.

Street Art was the wild collaboration between many artists: Julien Masmondet, artistic director of l’Ensemble les Apaches; Gordon, director; Simon Nogueira, parkour artist; Andrea Catozzi dancer; choreographed by Sarah to the music of Steve Reich and other contemporary french composers. The piece premiered at the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris in 2023 and will be re-created inside and on top of the Musée d’Orsay as part of the artistic accompaniment to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Performance Work - Company Yoann Bourgeois

Sarah was invited by Yoann Bourgeois to join his company in France in 2018. Since moving across the atlantic and learning French, she: served as artistic assistant for Passants for 20 amature dancers and for Fugue Trampoline #4; performed in Mixed Reality in Fugue VR; performs internationally in Celui qui tombe; participated in the creation of and performs in Mozart’s Requiem [Fragments]; taught numerous workshops; and performed at the 2023 Grammy Awards with Harry Styles.

Celui qui tombe (“He who falls”) was created by Yoann Bourgeois in 2014 with the artistic assistance of Marie Fonte. Sarah began interpreting this landmark piece in 2018, and has since performed in sold out theaters throughout Brazil, Colombia, France, Holland, South Korea, Spain and Turkey with tours planned through Asia. The work is concrete: What does it take to literally stay standing on a common ground that constantly changes? It is an exposition of human fragility, individuality and solidarity. 

Requiem de Mozart / Fragments was created by Yoann Bourgeois in collaboration with the dancers through a commission by Insula Orchestra, directed and conducted by Laurence Equilbey. Seven dancers illustrate the original fragments of Mozart’s Requiem Mass for the Dead. The work searches for the life left living in the spaces in between. 

Fugue VR was a collaboration between director Michel Reilhac and Yoann Bourgeois as a mixed reality adaptation of his work Fugue Trampoline. Sarah was a dancer and mediator for the mixed reality movement piece for 10 participants.

Sarah served as artistic assistant for Passants and Fugue Trampoline #4 in 2019. Both works involve a rotating, spiral staircase and trampoline, demonstrating the infinite passing of time.

Yoann Bourgeois invited Sarah to perform with Harry Styles for the 65th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2023. In front of a live television audience, the rotating floor turned the opposite way as rehearsed, forcing Harry and the dancers to reverse the choreography in real time… truly live art!

Performance Work - Company 4749

Sarah dances in two works made collaboratively with choreographer François Veyrunes: Outrenoire and Résonance. The highly physical work requires the dancers to create movement that only evolves forwards: it is impossible to immediately return to a space just inhabited. This physical restraint symbolizes life’s constant march forward, requiring ultimate presence and intention in each choice of movement made.

Outreniore, inspired by Pierre Soulages’s “beyond black” paintings, was named in the “Top 27 Performances” by Telerama during the Avignon “Off” Festival in 2023.

Commercial Work

Sarah was featured in Ming Pao Weekly, a Hong Kong fashion and lifestyle magazine for the Fall 2019 Paris Fashion Week. Curated by SML dance, she appeared alongside Mourad Bouayad and was featured wearing Dior and Miu Miu.

She has also appeared in advertisements for Brunello Cucinelli, and the City of Rouen.

Personal Work

Body of Ways was born out of a solitary summer spent in the Rocky Mountains in 2017. Sarah’s meditations on movement began as an experiment for existing beyond her immediately perceived environment. It became a kind of guide book for living alongside and inside the company of the body and its spirit — a collection of ways to flourish within the physical and imagined walls that outline our lives. Sarah needed a spontaneous, moveable stage that she could take with her wherever she went. And so the internet became the theater, and hashtags the subconscious, to share this explorative work.

Body of Ways is a series of suggestions for reconfiguring the confines of our real and imagined landscapes.

#lifeonline #lifeline #moveablefeast #dailyfeeding #mybodymychoice #myhashtagmyrealthoughts

Video collaboration with Ukrainian photographer and video artist Tania Bulgakova.

Two works created to the music of Laure Brisa, directed and edited by Sarah and danced in collaboration with Sarah Esser. Filmed during a windy walk and the after hours set deconstruction of a motion capture installation presented by BAM Teknopolis in 2017.