Sara Hook, a former soloist with Nikolais Dance Theater, toured internationally and appeared on National TV in the 1987 Kennedy Center Honors. She has also performed with Murray Louis, Pearl Lang, Jean Erdman, and Stephan Koplowitz and is currently a guest artist with David Parker and The Bang Group. Professor Hook's company, Sara Hook Dances regularly appears in New York and other national venues. Recent company activities include appearances at Dancenow/NYC's DanceMOpoliton Series at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater and the Ft Worth Museum of Modern Art in Ft. Worth, Texas. Upcoming performances include the Family Matters Series at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and the Danceworks Performance Series in Milwaukee, WI. Her work also continues to be produced internationally with David Parker and the Bang Group in venues throughout North America and Europe. The first American representative to the International Choreographer's Residency Program at the American Dance Festival (ADF), Hook received a Scripps ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limón Choreography Fellowship in 1995. She has toured widely as a guest artist/teacher and has set works at over a dozen universities nationally. Professor Hook was previously on the faculties of Princeton University and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, and a regular guest faculty of the Paul Taylor Summer Intensives in NYC. She holds an M.F.A. from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a B.F.A. from the North Carolina School of the Arts; she is also a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.

Photo: Ross Gordon