Sarah Foster-Sproull

Sarah Foster Sproull is an acclaimed contemporary choreographer working in New Zealand and internationally. She is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Auckland in the Dance Studies programme, and the Artistic Director of Foster Group Dance funded by Creative New Zealand. Sarah is a Choreographer in Residence at the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Resident Fellow at the Centre for Ballet and the Arts at New York University (2021 & 2023), and a session choreographer for the New York Choreographic Institute affiliated with the New York City Ballet (2020 & 2023). She has staged her choreographic work internationally in the United States, United Kingdom, China, Fiji, and Singapore, and locally throughout Aotearoa. Sarah holds a PhD in Dance Studies with a focus on feminist choreographic practice and is involved in arts advocacy for social cohesion and inclusion through European Union/Horizon Europe funded project dialoguing@rts: Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education.

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