Sarah Stanley
Sarah Elizabeth Stanley will be teaching Introduction to Ballet in Fall 2025.
Sarah Elizabeth Stanley was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona where she began dancing through public school programming. She has performed professionally with DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion, The Assembly, the x2 Dance Collective, and as a freelance artist at The Getty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lincoln Center Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA, among other venues. Sarah has trained extensively in modern and contemporary forms at the Taylor School, the Ailey School, the Merce Cunningham Trust, the American Dance Festival, and the White Mountain Summer Dance Festival, and performed works by Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, José Limón, Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones, Laura Glenn, Marjani Forte-Saunders, and Rebecca Lemme. Sarah has taught modern, ballet, contemporary floorwork, improvisation, and partnering to students of all ages and levels at four-year universities, community colleges, high schools, and private studios. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach. Sarah is currently working towards a PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine where her research considers the ways in which dance-based programs both align with and subvert clinical paradigms of pain, discipline, healing, and care.
- Working towards a PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine
- MFA in Dance, California State University, Long Beach
- BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Sarah Lawrence College
- Grant Writing certificate, San Diego State University
- DIAVOLO | Architecture In Motion
- The Taylor School
- The Ailey School
- The Broadway Dance Center Training Program
