Sarah Michaelson

Sarah MichaelsonSarah Michelson is an extraordinary choreographer. Never comfortable with success or the easy way out, she pushes questions to the wall, most recently with her Devotion series (2012), which transmutes the very history of dance and its worlds into an elaborate, constantly evolving exploration of the meanings of movement. Born in Manchester, England, and living in New York since 1991, Michelson makes highly original works that surprise with their stark

we see both the passion and the disappointment

amongst others

considered the movement in the Global South

In the Bottom of My Garden is at once a Warhol twist on a children’s book and a covert celebration of gay love

to The Long Wait

and sex in Rio de Janeiro

Russia Unveiled’

Fluxus or Bauhaus

Based in Cape Town

for anyone who knows that it is a labyrinth but nonetheless allows himself to remain trapped in it

performance and community action since the late 1990s

a former Drum writer