About

Sara is a mixed-media performance artist based in New Orleans, LA. Her current work is inspired by the technologies of joy, pleasure, sensation and connection found in Southern Black foodways. Through dance and installations, she creates experiences that amplify these ingredients. She is currently an Art and Survival Fellow with Jupiter Performance Studio and Double Edge Theater.

In addition to her performance work, Sara is also ordained Unitarian Universalist clergy. Her community ministry includes supply preaching, facilitating and supporting the work of community organizers. She is often called upon to bring forth prophetic strategic plans, create healthy communities through ritual and have hard conversations when groups need to regroup.

After training at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and Bennington College in dance and performance, Sara went on to receive a M.Ed and a M.Div at Vanderbilt University. Her masters theses focused on popular education and burlesque as a site of liturgy. She has studied with Urban Bush Women, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company as well as performed with the New Orleans Ballet Association, the New Orleans Baby Doll Ladies and Reese Johanson's Art Klub.