Sarah Skaggs

Sarah Skaggs, artistic director of Sarah Skaggs Dance, has been making dances in New York City for over 25 years. She has received numerous fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Jerome, Harkness, Greenwall and Rockefeller foundations. Her work focuses on the relationship between the body and spirituality as impacted by social and political dynamics. Currently, she is the director of the dance program at Dickinson College.

Range is a dance project that reframes the well-worn topic of aging and dance from one based on dwindling bodily possibilities to one of limitless capabilities. The work addresses issues surrounding aging and the dancing body, particularly westernized notions of beauty and grace. Embracing a new poetics of the crease, the fold, and the dent, she aims to recast an aging body as something “written on,” an embodied life writ large and decades in the making.