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Sarah Elgart

Founder/Director of Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival, Sarah Elgart is a Los Angeles based choreographer and director working under the auspice of Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow. Sarah creates original content for stage, screen, and site-specific venues. Her stage and site-works have been performed at alternative spaces including LAX Airport, The Skirball Center, Mark Taper Forum, Van Nuys Flyaway, The Bradbury Building, Jacob’s Pillow, INSITU Site-Specific Festival NY, and Loft Seven, where she created a rooftop work lit entirely by a hovering helicopter accompanied by Nels Cline (Wilco). Her work has been produced by venues including The Music Center, MASS MoCA, Dance Place, Los Angeles Theater Center, Mark Taper Forum and The International Women’s Theater Festival. In film Sarah has worked with noted directors including JJ Abrams, David Lynch, Catherine Hardwicke, and Anton Corbijn. Her own films include award-winning music videos, dance shorts, and an Emmy nominated PSA, and continue to be accepted into festivals internationally. In addition to teaching dance and film, Sarah writes a regular column, ScreenDance Diaries that focuses on the intersections of both genres internationally for online magazine Cultural Weekly. Sarah’s work has received support from organizations that include the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, California Arts Council and more. She is an alumna of the Sundance Institute’s Dance Film Lab, a Fellow of AFI’s Directing Women’s Workshop, and a director member of the DGA.

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D2D: Train Train + Near Perfect Synchronization

By Sarah Elgart on April 14, 2021

As part of Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival (D2D), and because this is the site of our birth place, we make it a point to share as many as... Read more →
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Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Round 4 Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced!

By Sarah Elgart on March 10, 2021

The day is finally here… We are thrilled to announce the winners and honorable mentions for Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Round... Read more →
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Kaduna

By Sarah Elgart on March 3, 2021

Two long, lanky, and agile brothers move barefoot beneath a cloudy African sky. Their movement references a combination of gesture and children’s... Read more →
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Dance With Me

By Sarah Elgart on February 3, 2021

When a music video for Selena Gomez ends up on the online arts & culture magazine Hyperallergic, it’s time to take notice. While I’m a... Read more →
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Dance Camera West 2021

By Sarah Elgart on January 6, 2021

Visceral, emotive, and ritually executed with little to no spoken word, dance often has a way of making a viewer feel first and think later…... Read more →
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Sharon Eyal & Dior

By Sarah Elgart on December 16, 2020

As an art form, dance has been marginalized for years. Unless it’s part of a Broadway musical, dance  usually enjoys only limited runs, and... Read more →
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They Saw The Sun First

By Sarah Elgart on November 18, 2020

Death is one of those things we all have in common. After all, it’s inevitable, and most of us ponder it to greater or lesser degrees, especially... Read more →
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Dance for Democracy

By Sarah Elgart on October 21, 2020

The dance community has never been complacent. For years we have been raising money for causes ranging from AIDS, to hunger, to natural disasters.... Read more →
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RED BETWEEN THE LINES

By Sarah Elgart on September 9, 2020

In March, as the gradual dawning of the extent to which we needed to shelter ourselves from the spread of CORONAVIRUS was hitting full force,... Read more →
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Near Perfect Synchronization

By Sarah Elgart on August 19, 2020

Koki Nakano recently came into my consciousness when some of the short films made – or more formulaically speaking – some of the music... Read more →
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