Sarah Chase
choreographer, director

Sarah Chase is based on Hornby Island, in the Salish Sea. She is a performer and choreographer whose distinctive signature has garnered her an international reputation. Her work has been presented across Canada and Europe, at such venues as the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Festival TransAmerique (Montreal), DanceHouse (Vancouver), the Holland Dance Festival, Klapstuk Festival (Belgium), Salzburg Szene Festival (Austria), Kaaitheater (Belgium), Tanz Quartier (Vienna), Fondation Cartier (Paris) and Theater der Welt (Germany). She has performed and toured with Benôit Lachambre’s Dance par B. Lieux, and German choreographer Raimund Hoghe, and has created work for many Canadian artists including Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Toronto Dance Theatre, Dreamwalker and Andrea Nann, Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy, Theatre Replacement, Jacinte Armstrong, Robin Poitras and Ron Stewart, Antonija Livingstone, Montreal Danse and Marc Boivin. Sarah is the recipient of the 2004 Jacqueline Lemieux Award for Excellence from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Prize of the Festival at the 2006 Munich Dance Biennale for her piece The Passenger. Solos she created for both Peggy Baker and Andrea Nann won Doras in the category of Outstanding Performer in Dance. She is an associate dance artist of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: In 1997, Sarah commissioned Peggy to make a work for her entitled Garland. In 2004, Sarah and Peggy created The Disappearance of Right and Left, and 14 year later they premiered the companion piece, unmoored.