Dance Faculty

Sasha Welsh

Sasha Welsh headshot

Photo by Ian Douglas

About

Sasha Welsh is a choreographer whose work explores states of awareness, memory and imagination, and the limitations and possibilities of the human body. Her choreography has been performed in venues such as Movement Research at the Judson Church, Fridays at Noon at the 92nd Street Y, Dance Conversations at the Flea, Dixon Place, Performance Mix at Joyce Soho, AUNTS, the INOVA galleries (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, and Studio 303 (Montreal). As a performer, Sasha has collaborated with Siri Peterson and Deborah Black, and she has performed for Laurie Berg and Megan Byrne in New York. She also traveled to Japan to collaborate and improvise with Noriko Kato at the Aomori Contemporary Art Center.

As an educator, Sasha is passionate about teaching anatomy, somatics, and dance conditioning in innovative ways that empower the next generation of dancers to move beyond the limitations of the current paradigm. She has studied anatomy and neuromuscular preparation for dance with Irene Dowd since 2005 and has participated in Dowd’s choreographic teachings as an assistant/demonstrator for Movement Research classes and teacher trainings focused on Spirals, Volutes, The Dynamic Trunk, Orbits, and The Turnout Dance among others.

Sasha is also teaching at The University of the Arts, The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College during the 2017-2018 academic year. Her previous teaching credits include DeSales University and Temple University where she earned her MFA under the direction of Merián Soto. Her undergraduate study consisted of a BA in dance and art from Swarthmore College, as well as a Professional Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre in London (now known as Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance). Sasha is also a fully certified Pilates instructor with more than ten years of teaching experience. For six years, Sasha hosted a performance salon known as Ulla's House in her Brooklyn apartment. Co-curated with Laurie Berg, Ulla’s House was an under-the-radar laboratory venue/event that encouraged true risk-taking and the development of experimental new projects and ideas. Ulla’s House supported the work of over 70 performing artists in various stages of their careers.

Campus Address

Wallace Dance Building
Lewis Arts complex

Campus Phone

609-258-5546

Email Address

sw37@princeton.edu