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Sara Wookey

Sara Wookey

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Sara Wookey

Roles in Archive: Artist, Performer, Speaker

Sara Wookey is a choreographer and creative consultant working in the United States and Europe. From 1996–2006, she was based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she established her company Wookey Works and taught at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. Since then, her choreographic work has been presented at Links Hall in Chicago, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and REDCAT in Los Angeles. Wookey holds an MFA from the Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, and works with public practice collectives such as the Los Angeles Urban Rangers, museum education programs such as the Tate Collective, and is a founding member of the Choreographers Working Group. Her writing on dance, urbanism, and labor rights issues for artists has been published in Performance Arts Journal, Movement Research, the International Journal for Art & Technology, Itch, and Performance Club. Wookey is the organizer of reDANCE, a platform for intergenerational transmission in dance, and one of five certified transmitters of Yvonne Rainer’s Trio A (1966). She has taught at, among others, the California Institute for the Arts, UCLA, and Cal State University Long Beach, and was the research assistant to Rainer at the University of California, Irvine, from 2009–11. Currently, she is the Outreach Consultant for the Creative Services Department at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) and in her spare time calls square dances for private and public events.