Sarah Konner

Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser and somatic movement educator. Sarah is interested in dance as a process of evolution, a way to understand our connections, and a means of storytelling. Sarah creates dance-theater with Austin Selden and others that has been shown at performance venues, universities, and museums across the country. She has had the pleasure of working with Jeanine Durning, Jenna Reigel, ChavasseDance&Performance, Sara Shelton Mann, Shura Baryshnikov, Megan Kendzior, Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Headlong Dance Theater, and setGo Performance Improvisation Ensemble. Sarah teaches contact improvisation in New York (through Movement Research and Gibney) and internationally, and is currently on faculty at Smith College, Amherst College and Wesleyan University. Sarah holds an M.F.A. in Dance at Smith College, a B.F.A. in Dance and a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan, and is certified in yoga, pilates and Body-Mind Centering®.