Summer Guest Instructor – Sarah Duclos

This summer, we are excited to have new (and returning) guest instructors for our Summer Intensive classes!

Our next featured guest instructor is Sarah Duclos.  Sarah is the first of a handful of dance educators worldwide to complete the five-year Nan Giordano Certification Program (and one of only two based in all of New England).   She is delighted to share her knowledge and love of this classic jazz technique with our students – aiming to spark interest and enthusiasm in the studio!

Sarah Duclos is a freelance choreographer and dance educator, based in New England,  who holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Theatre and Dance from the University of New Hampshire. As a young dancer, Duclos worked directly with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange during their two year residency leading up to The Shipyard Project – sparking a lifelong interest in site-specific, community-based dance work. While studying at UNH, Duclos founded Neoteric Dance Collaborative (NEO) a multi-disciplinary dance company with a mission to build community through the art of dance. NEO has particularly focused this community building mission in rural and suburban areas of New Hampshire and southern Maine, developing audiences for dance where there were previously none. NEO has performed Duclos’ choreography on stages in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont and at City Center in New York City. Duclos has worked as a freelance performer and choreographer, for both theatre and concert dance, and as a dance educator, notably working as a master teaching artist for Boston Ballet’s Education and Community Initiatives, a faculty member at Phillips Exeter Academy’s department of Theater and Dance – where she served as Interim Director of Dance during the 2015-2016 academic year and internationally as a dance facilitator at the Abhainn Ri Festival of Participation and Inclusion in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. She specializes in teaching classical ballet (Vaganova method), choreography and composition, dance history, inclusive dance for movers with disabilities and is currently one of nine people in the world fully certified to teach Giordano jazz technique. Duclos was appointed to the juried New Hampshire Arts in Education Roster in 2016 and continues to produce, direct and teach with Neoteric Dance Collaborative. http://www.vimeo.com/neotericdance

Photo Credits: Laura Leigh Photography and M. Lavigne Photography