Sarah Slifer


Sarah Slifer, Dancer
Works (view dance listing under Collaborations to the right):

Dancer

(In addition to dancing in several work for MWDCCo, Sarah was one of the publicists for Utah * Spirit Place * Spirit Planet * Tukuhnikivatz)

Sarah Slifer, Northborough, Massachusetts, began her dance training in ballet, ultimately bringing her to Ballet Theatre of Boston where she studied with Jose Mateo and Leo Geurard, and Marcus Shulkind. Slifer studied modern dance and choreography at The George Washington University with Maida Withers and Joseph Mills. Graduating in 1995 with a degree in history and philosophy of science, she has danced with the DCCo. in the United States, France, Venezuela and New York City’s Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Slifer has also worked with Katie Duck and Kay Isler, The Netherlands, Li Chiao Ping, California, and Jey Young Kim, Korea. Slifer studied modern dance with Maida Withers and ballet with Janet Shibata and Brian Roberts. She earned a BA degree at GW with a major in the philosophy of science and a minor in dance.  Sarah (Sarah Slifer Smith) lives in Massachusetts where she continues to teach, choreograph, perform, create public projects, and where she directs Movement Arts, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Sarah performed with other MWDCCO dancers for LEGACY: 50 Years of Dance on the Edge, exhibition and immersive installation in GW’s Corcoran Galleries.

Magma Center:  https://www.magma.center/
Boston Conservatory:  https://bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/faculty/sarah-slifer-swift

Sarah Slifer and Maida Withers  Nevertheless….Tenderness

Sarah Slifer  Utah-Spirit Place – Spirit Planet – Tukuhnikivatz (Utah Project)

Collaborations