M.F.A. Smith College
B.F.A. Kenyon College
Sarah Lass is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher with specialization in postmodern dance practice and performance, as well as improvisation, in the United States and Europe. Across modes of creative output, her work explores intersections between embodiment, perception, and design, and her research unfolds through a transdisciplinary process of dancemaking and creative writing. She has collaborated and performed nationally and internationally with renowned artists including Bebe Miller, Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Xan Burley + Alex Springer, Shannon Gillen, and others. Her choreography has been presented and supported through residencies and fellowships across the country including Basin Arts Center and the School for Contemporary Dance Thought. Her award-winning writing has appeared in several literary and academic journals including The Maine Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, and others. Lass has taught a wide range of dance courses, all highly interdisciplinary, including all levels of contemporary technique, composition, choreography, dance history and theory, dance condition/injury prevention, and ballet from a somatic perspective. She has held lecturer or visiting assistant professor positions at Smith College, Keene State College, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Marlboro College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She received her MFA in Dance from Smith in 2018 and graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College in 2013.
slass@uwyo.edu