Director, WCB Arts Foundation Inc.
Sarah Berges - choreographer and performer - produced her own dance works in the San Francisco Bay Area for fifteen years prior to moving to Los Angeles. While working in the Bay Area, she worked as a choreographer in the theater, garnering great reviews for her choreography in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Stravinsky's The Soldier's Story. She also created original choreography for All At One Point based on fiction by Italo Calvino. Ms. Berges' dance company, Amaranth, toured Mexico in 1988; in 1983 she produced a program of modern dance at the International Arts Festival in Amman, Jordan.
Sarah Berges' choreography is informed by a graphic sensibility bolstered by raw emotional expression. She makes ample use of many technical and stylistic influences absorbed over a lifetime of studying, performing and choreographing contemporary & ethnic dance as well as ballet.
In 2004, Sarah Berges founded Lion's Pounce Dance Theater and in March 2005 premiered "Mindscape" an hour-long work featuring an original electronic score by Steve Hopkins.
Sarah Berges has taught modern and creative dance in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles for 25 years. At present Ms. Berges teaches modern and creative dance in Santa Monica, California.
As a dance writer and critic in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah Berges published dance reviews from 1984-1986 in The Daily Cal, the Berkeley Monthly, and the Express.
Education
B.A. Theater Arts / Dance, University of California at Berkeley, 1980
M.F.A. Choreography, Pedagogy, Mills College Oakland CA, 1984
Awards
Eisner Prize - Outstanding Artist at UC Berkeley, 1976-1980
Theater Arts / Dance Department Achievement Award - Choreography, 1976-1980
Courtney Trowman
Courtney Trowman discovered dance when she was five years old.
She studied first with The Dayton Ballet and was later a member of the Kettering Youth Ballet. A little time off turned into an eight year hiatus. She returned to dancing in 2003. Courtney is happy to be dancing again having realized that dance is truly her life's passion. Courtney continues to study ballet along with modern dance and tap.