Guest Speaker

Sarah has been invited to give lectures and participate in conferences discussing immersive art, embodiment, virtual worlds, and working as an American artist in Europe. She has also participated as a member of several French delegations of artists and cultural professionals working at the intersections of art and innovation.

Presenter - “New Tools, New Uses, New Performances” as part of the “Cycle des Hautes Études de la Culture” for the French Minister of Culture. December 2025.

Guest Speaker - HEAD University Masters Program in Art and Design (Geneva) . Invited by Prof. Simon Husslein in November 2025.

French Delegation Member and Pitch Speaker - Villa Albertine (NYC) “Nocturne Immersion” Invited by the French Embassy in November 2025.

Guest Speaker - Dance Tech Collective (NYC). Invited by founder Mary John Frank in November 2025.

French Delegation - Centre des Arts “D’un monde à l’autre” (Osaka, Japan). Invited by the Prefecture of Osaka on the occasion of the World Expo 2025.

Round-table participant - The Avignon Festival’s “Spectacle Vivant, Scenes Numerique”. Invited by Dark Euphoria in July 2025.

She has pitched projects at Immersive Markets including: Venice International Film Festival Gap Financing Market; NewImages Festival, and Miami FilmGate.

Educator

Barnard College of Columbia University invited Sarah to create two courses, Digital Performance and Improvisation, as a Guest Lecturer in Dance during the Fall 2023 semester. At the same time, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Barnard Movement Lab. 

She regularly teaches guided improvisation for Swell Dance Paris as well as improvisation and creative workshops for dancers and non-dancers at Feeling Dance in Paris and other venues. Her teaching style is rooted in musicality, exploring the body’s intuition and sensitivity to multiple points of inspiration: sensation, rhythm, melody, imagination, physical environment and physical memory. 

She frequently coaches the actors of the Theatre de la Ville to help them find ease while performing on complex, moving set designs, such as walking on moving stages, using acrobatic devices, and other unusual physical engagement.

Sarah’s teaching is influenced by her training and professional experiences, which began in classical and contemporary ballet from the New Mexico Ballet Company, the Boston Ballet and LINES Ballet, as well as in modern, contemporary, improvisation, and composition from dance luminaries including Twyla Tharp, Colleen Thomas-Young, Ashley Tuttle, Ohad Naharim, Sekou, and dancers from the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Her work with Yoann Bourgeois and François Veyrunes, and parkour stars Simon Nogueira and Johan Tonnoir, also influence her teaching approaches. She is passionate about social dances including house, salsa and forro and learning new ways to feel movement with music.  

Read the feature article in the Barnard College Magazine about her work here.

Please reach out with any teaching, speaking or workshop requests.