Sarah Lass
Assistant Instructional Professor, Contemporary and Dance Composition
Department of Theatre and Dance
Education: B.A. Kenyon College, 2013; M.F.A. Smith College, 2018
Sarah Lass is a transdisciplinary dance artist, writer, and educator whose work moves between choreography and writing. Grounded in improvisation as both technique and philosophy, she approaches dance as an aesthetic and political intervention that cultivates reverie as a mode of expanded consciousness and relation. Her research explores embodiment, perception, and temporality, asking how attention and movement might interrupt dominant logics of progress, mastery, and certainty. She has collaborated with Bebe Miller, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Xan Burley, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Shannon Gillen, and others. Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies including Ucross, Basin Arts Center, and others.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.