Sara Wookey

Sara Wookey is an American dance artist who gained dual citizenship in Britain in 2022. She is a dance scholar and advisor currently based in Cambridge, UK. She specialises in relational artistic practices as a means to creating more inclusive museum and other public sector spaces and in dance transmission as a form of embodied archiving practices in dance. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Ohio State University, and an M.F.A. in Dance from UCLA. In 2020 she completed her Doctoral thesis Spatial Relations: Dance in the Changing Museum through the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. Her practice informed research explores social and spatial politics, taking dance and choreography as tools for understanding systems of power.