Sarah Murphy, born in Halifax, at 15 was accepted into the North Carolina School of the Performing Arts modern dance division. After graduation in 2006 she attended the Juilliard School where she won a Princess Grace Award in 2009, and in 2010 received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Sarah danced for Canada’s Sylvain Emard Danse, and the Netherlands Dance Theater II, where she danced works by Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Hans Van Manen, Alexander Ekman, and Lightfoot/Leon among others. Sarah performed as a soloist in Tomoko Mukaiyama’s latest installation La Mode at the opening of the National Taichung Theatre in Taiwan and at Dance New Air in Tokyo. Also a teacher, Sarah taught her workshop Open Mind, Open Body at the OPEN LOOK St. Petersburg International Dance Festival in the summer of 2016, and returned to Russia again in the summer of 2017.
Playground
Season: 2017
Music: Partita No. 4 in D Major: Sarabande by Bach, Ingenue by Thom Yorke
The playground is an environment that individuals enter to meet, interact, play and are encouraged to explore their behaviour inside of a choreographic structure. Come play with us!
Dancers Mollie Oates-Johnson (kneeling) and Denver Scott (standing) in Playground.
Rehearsal photo by Yukiko Asada.
