Sara Procopio
Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, educator, and arts manager. As a founding company member and artistic associate of Shen Wei Dance Arts from 2001 to 2012, her work with Shen Wei included originating roles in 10 works, while also fulfilling company management responsibilities. From 2012 to 2019, she performed in the work of choreographer and media artist Jonah Bokaer with global appearances including the BAM Next Wave Festival, Brisbane Festival, Lyon Biennale, and the National Theater of Serbia.
Procopio’s teaching practice has led her to facilitate workshops, organize intensives, and stage repertory at renowned institutions and festivals throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and the U.S., including the Paolo Grassi School in Milan, the Korea International Dance Festival in Seoul, Peridance, Gibney Dance Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and American Dance Festival, where she has been a faculty member since 2008. Procopio has taught at high schools, colleges, universities, and youth programs, including the University of North Carolina School for the Arts, Connecticut College, Rutgers University, Middlebury College, Hollins University, Marymount Manhattan College, Dancewave, and University of the Arts, where she has taught since 2011. She has also created and directed choreographic works for students at Florida School of the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Greenville Fine Arts Center.
Throughout her career, Procopio has served as a grant writer and arts manager. In 2012–2013, she was an arts management fellow through a program of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Professional Development Program. Since 2015, Procopio has worked with Big Dance Theater, providing administrative support in the areas of company management, finance, and development.