Sarah Mae Gibbons

Sarah Mae Gibbons, originally from Athens, Ohio, earned her BFA in dance and minored in education at The Ohio State University. While there, she performed in works by numerous faculty members including; Bebe Miller, Ming Lung Yang and Victoria Uris as well as independent works by Annie Kloppenberg, Shawn Hove and Foreground Dance. Sarah Mae’s aesthetic and interests lie in reinvesting attention to the practice of improvisation as a performance form, dance as a means of education and discovering links between choreography and research. Sarah Mae currently dances for Annie Kloppenberg, Deadfall Dance,Quicksilver Dance, Zoe Dance and other independent choreographers as well as teaching at the “Dance Place” , “Green Street Studios” and for the “Cambridge Performance Project”. In addition, Sarah Mae’s choreography has been shown and received recognition through the Green Street Emerging Artist Program, ArtBeat 2012 as well the Ohio Christian Dance Assembly. She is one of the founding members of P.I.E. (Performance Improvisation Ensemble) a touring compositional improvisation community.