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Sara Baird Cofounder/Choreographer/Dancer |
Sara's CV (pdf) |
Sara Baird is the artistic director, choreographer and a dancer with Anemone Dance Theater, which she cofounded in 2001. She integrates movement with sound, costume, sculpture and visuals to create an ethereal effect and places a strong emphasis on collaborations with artists from various fields. To date, the company has 14 collaborating members working in different mediums. Bairdšs artistic intrigue and inquiry into the Butoh dance form greatly informs her work and research as well as the movement philosophies of dance visionaries Loie Fuller, Mary Wigman, Alwin Nicholais, and Pilobolus. Sara is challenging herself to explore new approaches to present dance theater and wants to give the spectator a performing experience in which they can be creatively engaged and inspired.
The company has received grants from the American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program, The Puffin Foundation, support from Princeton University, and Baird was recently selected as an Artist in Residence at Dance New Amsterdam for 2006. Based in New York City for over twelve years, she has performed on tour across the United States, to the south of France, and to the lunar landscape of Boliviašs altiplano. During that time, she performed with the Butoh Rockettes directed by Celeste Hastings, Poppo & Gogo Boys, Richard Move for the Guggenheim Museum, VH1, and the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and with the companies of Neta Pulvermacher and Nicholas Rodriguez.
She serves the New York dance community teaching yoga and recently competed in a sprint distance triathlon. Baird holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in dance from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2005) and a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in dance from Florida State University (1993).
Sara Baird
Susan Lamberth
Collaborators
James Beeler
Christine Coleman
Hayley Downs
Erin Dudley
Phil Gelb
John Gordon
Celeste Hastings
Kenneth Kirschner
Joel Sherry
Aya Shibahara
Mi-young Song
Christopher Tignor
Todd VanSlambrouck
Lee Whittier
Miriama Young
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