Sara Hook

Associate Professor

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Sara Hook, former soloist with Nikolais Dance Theater, has also performed with Murray Louis, Pearl Lang, Jean Erdman, and Stephan Koplowitz among many others and is an occasional guest artist/ collaborator with David Parker and The Bang Group. Hook\'s company, Sara Hook Dances regularly appears in New York and other national venues. Recent company activities include appearances at Dancenow/NYC\'s DanceMOpoliton Series at Joe\'s Pub at the Public Theater, the West End Theater, the Family Matters Series at Dance Theater Workshop, and the Sampler Series at Symphony Space in New York City.  Recent national venues include the Modern Dance Festival at the Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Texas and the Danceworks Performance Series in Milwaukee, WI.  Her work also continues to be produced internationally with David Parker and the Bang Group in venues throughout North America and Europe.  The first American representative to the International Choreographer\'s Residency Program at the American Dance Festival (ADF), Hook received a Scripps ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limón Choreography Fellowship in 1995.  She has toured widely as a guest artist/teacher and has set works at over a dozen universities nationally. Hook has been on the faculties of Princeton University and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and guest faculty of the Paul Taylor Summer Intensives in NYC. She holds an M.F.A. from New York University\'s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She is also a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.

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