Sarah Young has collaborated with and performed works by dancemakers Nancy Stark Smith, David Dorfman, Jill Sigman, Hilary Easton, Chris Aiken, Stephan Koplowitz, Alexx Shilling & Ann Robideaux, Stefanie Nelson, Sidra Bell, Shura Baryshnikov, Janice Lancaster, and the Treehouse Shakers. She has been a coordinator of the Global Underscore since 2020 and part of the Underscore +/- research group in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. since 2013. She participated in the Underscore-based performance installation, Glimpse 2, at 92nd Street Y, NYC in 2014. She’s currently engaged in research inspired by Nancy Stark Smith, especially the Underscore and Nancy’s “States of Grace.”

She is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, former director of Earthdance in Plainfield, Massachusetts, and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Morocco. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003. Sarah currently lives with her partner, Saliq Savage, and their 5-year-old kid in both Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. and at Ponderosa Tanzland, Stolzenhagen, Germany.

Significant teachers

Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, Sarah Shelton Mann, Nita Little, Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, Jurij Konjar...