Sara Wookey

Sara Wookey is a dancer, choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. From 1996-2006 she was based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where she created over a dozen evening-length dance-theater works and taught at the Amsterdam School for the Arts. Since relocating to the United States in 2006 to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California in Los Angeles, her work has grown to include site-based projects and social practices in collaboration with visual artists, architects and urban planners. Her work has been presented nationally at Links Hall in Chicago, the Hammer Museum and REDCAT in Los Angeles. She is a certified teacher of Yvonne Rainer's seminal dance work Trio A (1963) and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Irvine and California State University Long Beach.