Sarah Harkness-Sebastian, Santa Fe College
Professor
Gainesville, Florida
sarah.harkness-sebastian@sfcollege.edu
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(352) 395-5674
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Sarah Harkness-Sebastian serves as Assistant Professor of Dance at Santa Fe College, instructing courses in multiple levels of Modern and Jazz dance techniques as well as Dance Fundamentals and Performance. She received her MFA degree from The Florida State University School of Dance. Originally ...
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Bio/Research
Sarah Harkness-Sebastian serves as Assistant Professor of Dance at Santa Fe College, instructing courses in multiple levels of Modern and Jazz dance techniques as well as Dance Fundamentals and Performance. She received her MFA degree from The Florida State University School of Dance. Originally from Chico, California, she earned her BA in Theatre Arts, with a minor in Dance, at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and worked for Sherry Lansing, former CEO of Paramount Pictures. After earning her undergraduate degree, Sarah founded Meh-Tropolis Dance Theatre, in Los Angeles, and served as the company's Artistic Director for six years. Sarah has also performed with Oberlin Dance Company in San Francisco, and with Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, and other cast members of "The West Wing", in the Los Angeles production of "Raising Our Voices". She has directed and choreographed such productions as "A Chorus Line", "Rocky Horror Show", and "Brigadoon" for the Theatre and Dance Departments at Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine University as well as serving as Adjunct Faculty for both universities. Sarah was a principal company member of The Florida State University's Dance Repertory Theatre, working with Lynda Davis, and guest choreographers Alan Danielson, Michael Foley, Gerri Houlihan, Rick McCullough, and Dan Wagoner. She has also performed in the repertory of choreographers Tim Glenn, Andrew Noble, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and has served as Assistant Director, Workshop Coordinator, and Faculty for the Suzanne Farrell Workshop for Young Dancers and the FSU Summer Intensive for Young Dancers Workshop.
Internationally, she has studied and performed with the Oxford, England School of Drama, the Montpellier, France World Dance Festival, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and in Valencia, Spain in the Conservatorio Superior de Danza. Sarah served on the Faculty of Caxton College, in Valencia, Spain, instructing courses in Drama and Modern Dance. While in Spain, she performed her original work and that of choreographer, Tim Glenn, in Tasia, a performing artists' exhibit in the heart of Valencia's main city center, in collaboration with Spanish classical guitarist, Ruben Hidalgo Garcia.
Locally in Florida, Sarah regularly returns to Valencia College, in Orlando, as a guest choreographer and instructor, continues to serve as Faculty for the FSU Summer Intensive for Young Dancer's Workshop, and has recently been awarded an artistic residency, for the summer of 2013, at the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, in Clayton, Georgia.
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Internationally, she has studied and performed with the Oxford, England School of Drama, the Montpellier, France World Dance Festival, Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and in Valencia, Spain in the Conservatorio Superior de Danza. Sarah served on the Faculty of Caxton College, in Valencia, Spain, instructing courses in Drama and Modern Dance. While in Spain, she performed her original work and that of choreographer, Tim Glenn, in Tasia, a performing artists' exhibit in the heart of Valencia's main city center, in collaboration with Spanish classical guitarist, Ruben Hidalgo Garcia.
Locally in Florida, Sarah regularly returns to Valencia College, in Orlando, as a guest choreographer and instructor, continues to serve as Faculty for the FSU Summer Intensive for Young Dancer's Workshop, and has recently been awarded an artistic residency, for the summer of 2013, at the Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts, in Clayton, Georgia.
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