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Mission Statement | |
My mission is to create innovative movement works that respond to the contemporary moment in radically physical ways. Working with a highly nuanced movement vocabulary, I create dances that articulate the ecstatic, the solemn, the restless, the meditaitve, the meticuous, and the ambiguous, in ways that embrace our vulnerabilities. Folding, carving, cutting, piercing are actions I take to create choreographic meaning for myself. Through, repetition, accumulation, and augmentation, I make dances that embrace highly ambivalent, tense, percarious and ambiguous states, mercurial states that believe in the power of the body as both subject and object to rise up and celebrate the perpetual unfolding of the human spirit. | |
Biography | |
SARAH SKAGGS is a dancer/choreographer who has been making dances in New York City for over twenty years.She has received six National Endowment for the Arts Choreography fellowships and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships as well as the numerous grants from the Rockefeller, Culpeper, Jerome, Harkness, Greenwall, Dreyfus and Bulova Foundations. She has the honor of having a two page entry devoted to her in the International Dictionary of Modern Dance. In addition to her extensive travel and teaching in Hong Kong, Prague, Taipei and Bali her work has been produced by The Joyce Theatre's "Altogether Different" series, Lincoln Center Festival, The Andy Warhol Museum, DancePlace DC, Dance Theatre Workshop, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, PS 122, Jacob's Pillow, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Dublin Arts Festival and most recently at the Society of Dance History Scholars conference at Stanford University. She has served on the Board of Directors of The Danspace Project at St.Mark's Church in New York since 1992. She holds an MFA in Dance Studies from Hollins University/American Dance Festival. Currently, she is the director of the dance program at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. |
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