Our 2022-23 CRANE Directing Fellow, Sarah Dahnke is a choreographer, dance artist, and arts educator deeply committed to empowering communities to use movement to reclaim narratives stripped away by colonialism. She’s a MAP Fund awardee, an NEA Our Townfunded resident artist, and a former awardee of fellowships from Gibney’s Moving Toward Justice, Target Margin Institute, New Victory LabWorks, and Culture Push. As a practitioner, Dahnke specializes in devised performance and site-specific dance film. Dahnke is the artistic director of Dances for Solidarity, a project that co-creates choreography with people who are incarcerated in solitary confinement and creates live performances as advocacy toward prison abolition.
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