ABOUT

Sara Draper is a Houston-based dance artist/educator. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Houston where she also earned a Minor in Dance. Her work history includes multiple dance disciplines, performing, teaching, choreographing, writing, directing a modern dance company, and running a dance business. She enjoys collaborating with composers, dancers, poets, and musicians. She has worked with opera singers as a movement instructor and as a choreographer.  

 

Recognition for Sara’s choreography includes an Individual Artist Fellowship from Houston Arts Alliance, three HAA Arts Project Grants, a Houston City’s Special Initiative Grant, a DiverseWorks Residency, and the 1995-96 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Creative Artist Award for her previous choreography. Outside of Houston, her work has been performed in D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, and Louisiana. 

 

While having continued as a dance educator, Sara took a nine-year hiatus from production work. She is now re-starting her choreographic and artistic career with a new focus and fresh vision.

 

She is currently fascinated with experimental, interdisciplinary, collaborative work with multi-talented performers and creators. She is drawn to diving into immersive performance explorations and full-sensory performance experiences. Her current interests include exploring ritual with interdisciplinary performance, and in relationship restoration, both human-human and human-earth.