Sarah Young
🇺🇸United States
About
Sarah Young has collaborated with and performed works by dancemakers Nancy Stark Smith, David Dorfman, Jill Sigman, Hilary Easton, Chris Aiken, Stephan Koplowitz, Alexx Shilling & Ann Robideaux, Stefanie Nelson, Sidra Bell, Shura Baryshnikov, Janice Lancaster, and the Treehouse Shakers. She has been a coordinator of the Global Underscore since 2020 and part of the Underscore +/- research group in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. since 2013. She participated in the Underscore-based performance installation, Glimpse 2, at 92nd Street Y, NYC in 2014. In recent years, she's been most engaged in research inspired by Nancy Stark Smith, especially the Underscore and Nancy's "States of Grace." She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, former director of Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachusetts, and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Morocco. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at Smith College. Sarah lives with her partner, Saliq Savage, and their 6-year-old in both Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. and at Ponderosa Tanzland, Stolzenhagen, Germany.