ABOUT SARAH

Sarah Emery

Sarah has been teaching dance to all ages for over 20 years in schools, including the Patel Conservatory, Atlanta Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, Open Door Studios, and Ponte Vedra Ballet and Dance Company. She is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor and TranscenDance® Facilitator. Currently, she teaches ballet, TranscenDance®, Pilates, and yoga and is on staff at Pilates Brevard and Carolina Dance Collective.

Sarah has produced several films for dance, receiving multiple global official selections as well as the Viewer’s Choice Award (Dance on Screen Alabama) and Certificate of Distinction for top three global selections (Choreocollab Film Fest). She was the project tier recipient of the Choreography Connection Award through Regional Dance America (2017). She has set works on Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Moving Poets Charlotte, Delaware Dance Company, Canton Ballet and Georgia Ballet (courtesy of Dance Canvas, Atlanta, GA). She was founder/director of Watershed Dance Theatre, premiering works in Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA.

Sarah was a principal dancer with Moving Poets Charlotte, a contemporary and multi-disciplinary dance company in Charlotte, NC where she later became co-artistic director. She danced with the Tulsa Ballet Theatre, North Carolina Dance Theatre (now Charlotte Ballet), Terpsicorps Theater of Dance and Omaha Theater Ballet.