Sarah Konner

Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser, and somatic movement educator interested in dance as a process of evolution, a way to understand connections, and a means of storytelling. She creates dance-theater work, which has been shown at performance venues, universities, and museums across the country, including Judson Church, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam, Berkshire Fringe Festival, A.W.A.R.D. Show! Philadelphia, the Kennedy Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Brown University, Smith College, Wesleyan University, Interlochen Center for the Arts, the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Dance Complex in Boston, and more. She has had the pleasure of working with Austin Selden, Jeanine Durning, Jenna Riegel, Sara Shelton Mann, Chavasse Dance and Performance, Shura Baryshnikov, Megan Kendzior, Alex Springer and Xan Burley, Headlong Dance Theater, and setGo Performance Improvisation Ensemble. 

Konner has been on the faculty at Smith College, Amherst College, Wesleyan University, Gibney Dance Center, and Movement Research, and recently was a guest teaching artist at the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, the Juilliard School, Connecticut College, and the Field Center. Konner published an article “Shared Space and Between Space: Considering Jewishness and Race Through Interspecies Dancing” in the journal Choreographic Practices, and presented in 2022 and 2024 at the Dance Studies Conference. Konner holds an MFA in Dance from Smith College, a BFA in Dance and a BS in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan, and is certified in yoga, Pilates, and Body-Mind Centering.