Sara Caplan Dance

Sara Caplan (she/her) is a native of Dedham, MA. She graduated from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre: Dance Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Sara trained with Mariah Maloney, Karl Rogers, Doug Varone, Paul Matteson, and

Kathleen Hermesdorf. She graduated with her Masters of Fine Arts in Performance and Choreography from The College at Brockport, State University of New York in 2017.

Sara has performed in works choreographed by Elisha Clark Halpin, Sherone Price, Laura Peterson (NY,) Juanita Suarez, Maura Keefe, Kendra Portier, Mariah Maloney, Beth Gill, Elise Beers AachixQaaduug, Lucille Jun, Bri Wilson, Shenandoah Harris, Betsy Miller, Madeleine Gregor, Anja Kellner-Rogers,

Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone, and C. Asa Call. She currently dances for Karin Stevens Dance, and Good Grl Co. and frequently collaborates on various independent projects.

Sara’s choreographic work explores the building up and breaking down of classical dance forms and the effects of space on the relationship between moving bodies. She uses improvisation and plays with gravity and balance to foster intimate, sensory experiences for both performers and audience members. Her movement interests investigate falling, collapse, rhythmic interplay and re-creation. She has presented concert works and site-specific works at various theatres and urban venues in Pittsburgh, PA, State College, PA, the American College Dance Festival, the Pennsylvania State University, and the College at Brockport. Sara has created and performed in works for Soft Concrete III, Fremont Fringe Festival and KSD & Kin. She most recently has been making work with her collaborative partner, Anja Kellner-Rogers.

Sara’s teaching interests lie in bridging the gap between sensory experience in movement and anatomically supported and efficient movement. While in graduate school, she held a graduate teaching assistantship for three years, teaching Open Ballet to majors, Modern for Non-majors, Introduction to Dance and Movement and Self-Awareness to non-major students. She held adjunct positions with the Pennsylvania State University teaching modern, ballet and conditioning to students of all disciplines and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges teaching ballet to dance majors. Sara also taught ballet at Kennedy Dance Centre in Bellefonte, PA and Studio G Dance in Pittsburgh, PA to students of all levels aged 12-35. She held a teaching position at Slippery Rock University teaching contemporary modern, improvisation, wellness, kinesiology, and dance composition for dance majors and minors, as well as Dance: Art and Culture to non-majors. She currently teaches ballet and contemporary dance to students aged 7-adult at Rainier Dance Center. She also teaches modern and adaptive dance to students at Creative Dance Center, using Anne Green Gilbert’s Brain Compatible Dance Education model.

In addition to her choreographic, performative and teaching interests, Caplan studied costume design under the tutelage of Emma Scholl at the College at Brockport. She worked on the wardrobe crew at the Bates Dance Festival in 2015 and 2016 and designed costumes for various student concerts at the College at Brockport, as well as for Wild Beast Dance during Rochester Fringe Festival.

Sara currently lives, explores, investigates and collaborates in Seattle, WA.

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