Sarah White-Ayón (she/they) is a dancer, poet, visual artist, movement, somatics teacher, and healing practitioner with a lifelong interest in both Western and non-Western healing practices. For the last 16 years, she has taught classes in movement, somatic awareness, mindfulness, embodied presence, and the Alexander Technique at various schools throughout NYC including Movement Research, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Balance Arts Center, Parsons School of Design, Playwrights Horizons at NYU, and The Juilliard School. She is currently a student in training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Stillpoint Wellness.
As an artist, her work spans across and intersects the disciplines of dance, somatics, performance, video and film, sculpture, sound, and collage. Her work has been presented through various venues and organizations including Roulette, Movement Research, Strange Loop Gallery, SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery, AUNTS, iLAND’s iLAB residency (2008), Fritz Haeg’s Sundown Salon, Monkey Town, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Highways Performance Space and Gallery. As a dancer, she has performed and/or collaborated in the work of such artists as Walter Dundervill, Jessica Hutchins, Eve Sussman and Simon Lee, robbinschilds, Isabel Lewis, Felicia Ballos, Nancy Garcia, Flora Weigman, Rebecca Brooks, Jennifer Monson, Levi Gonzalez, Alex Escalante, Juliette Mapp, Simone Coutu, Jeanine Olsen, Angel Ayón and Gerald Marks among others. Since 2015 she has had the pleasure of performing with Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers. Notable works include Mira El (2015); Thirsty Mind, Love and Starvation, Sitting in a Lonely Tree (2016); Almodovar Dystopia (2017); and El Pueblo de los Olvidados (2019), Ceremonia (2023). Since 2018 she has also had the pleasure of performing with Luciana Achugar. Notable works include Brujx (2018-2019); New Mass Dance (2018); and Puro Teatro: a spell for utopia (2021).