Instructor Information

Sarah Donohue

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Contact information

Email: sarahd@uvu.edu

Virtual Office (Teams): by appointment

Welcome Statement

Education and Experience

Sarah is an Associate Professor of Dance and the Associate Chair at Utah Valley University. She danced professionally with Repertory Dance Theatre where she performed the work of Duncan, Ito, Humphrey, Limón, Butler, Rainer, and Cunningham. Sarah is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and has taught and choreographed nationally and internationally. Her research explores the physicality humor and play through a Laban perspective which she presented at the International Society for Humor Studies conference in Dublin, Ireland. Sarah’s choreography, Still Life with Flight, was selected for the ACDA National Festival in 2016. Sarah is the recipient of three Grants for Engaged Learning, the Dean's Merit Award, the Faculty Excellence Award, a High Impact Practices Grant, and the Presidential Fellowship for her research that united the choreography of Michio Ito with the Japanese-American incarceration during WWII.