Faculty Profile

Sarah Skaggs

Associate Professor of Dance; Director of Dance (2008)

Contact Information

skaggss@dickinson.edu

Montgomery House
717-245-1771

Bio

Sarah Skaggs, artistic director of Sarah Skaggs Dance, is an internationally renowned choreographer from New York City. She has received numerous fellowships -- from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Jerome, Harkenss, Greenwall, and Rockefeller foundations. Her work focuses on the relationship between the body and spirituality as impacted by social and political crises. Recently, she completed a multi-year cycle of choreographic works dealing with the body and disaster, particularly with respect to September 11th. At Dickinson she teaches Dance History, Modern Technique, Somatics, and Choreography.

Education

  • B.A., Sweet Briar College, 1979
  • M.F.A., Hollins University, 2007