Direction & Choreographic Work

Sarah has created several works focused on immersive and site-specific experiences, bringing movement and dance outside of the traditional theater setting to a wider public.

Sarah’s work aims to connect disparate disciplines and communities through movement and music. From choreographing and performing in Augmented Reality as The Little Dancer for the Musée d’Orsay and in VR as the five dancers in Matisse’s La Danse, to choreographing parkour artists to the music of Steve Reich for l’Ensemble les Apaches, to directing a multi-user VR experience for Lincoln Center, she centers collaboration in her creative process as a means towards greater inclusivity.

She is currently co-directing a Bolero / Techno performance that blends dance, music, and technology to foster celebration and deeper understanding between otherwise separate cultures and communities. Rave-L Party will premiere at the Theatre de Chatelet in March, 2025 and will tour to the Ruhrtriennale.

To support her work, please consider making a tax deductable donation through Fractured Atlas, her fiscal sponsor, here.

Alongside Gordon, Sarah co-directed the Maurice Ravel / Electro performance that was been commissioned by the Theatre du Chatelet and l’Enseble les Apaches. Conceived of by Artistic Director Julien Masmondet for a 20 person orchestra and the DJ/Producer Tatyana Jane, the performance invites everyone to let music move them. 

As the concert musically builds like Ravel’s Bolero, we tell the story of a factory born during the Industrial Revolution, housing bodies exhausted by labor that were gradually replaced by machines and automation. We watch as the factory becomes abandoned, echoing with ghosts of the past until a new generation rediscoveres it, transforming this space once marked by hardship into a place of renaissance, where electronic music resonates and bodies sweat from joy.

Rave-L Party premiered on March 23, 2025 in Paris at the Theatre du Chatelet and will be presented at the Ruhrtriennale (August 22-23-24, 2025)and La Seine Musicale (June 13,2026). Find out more here.

Written and directed by Sarah Silverblatt-Buser, Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement. Set in the middle of a New Mexican storm, participants are guided to rediscover their first ways of engaging with the world, symbolizing formative life stages that culminate in a shared exploration of our embodied selves.

Collective Body will make its world premiere in competition at the Venice Mostra International Film Festival in August, 2025, followed by a preview presentation in Osaka, related to the worlds fair, and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from October 22-November 1, 2025.

Produced by ATLAS V, commissioned by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in co-production with Body of Ways, Onassis ONX

Music by Harvey Causon

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.

Watch the full version of Street Art filmed for Arte here.

Sarah is currently serving as movement consultant and choreographer for the VR Opera, Talking Pupils, created and directed by Julie Zhu and Aoshuang Zhang and commissioned by the University of Michigan.

Talking Pupils is the first virtual reality opera to prioritize accessibility for the visually-impaired community. The narrative is drawn from Talking Pupils, a story of blindness and spiritual awakening by the 17th century writer Pu Songlin. Our playful adaptation focuses on the transformative power of self-reflection. After the protagonist loses their sight, mysterious pupil beings appear who encourage a self-awareness that can help overcome total blindness. 

The work’s form, aesthetics, and acoustics will be carefully researched alongside numerous collaborators and participants. Interviews with children at the TaiYuan School of the Blind will form part of the spatial sound design. The VR opera will include a haptic device connected to the piece’s aural events. This “virtual cane” will produce vibrations and realistic sound effects.

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.

Performing - 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!

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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.