Sara Joel’s Dance, Film, and Body

By Dance Response, “This summer I had my first encounter with Sara Joel, seeing her solos Enfold and Surface at the SummerDANZ: Emerging Artists program at DTW, and getting another look at Surface at the Solar Powered Dance Series at Solar One. Her work stood out at both events. Joel is an artist who excels at making beautiful, simple art whose focus is her own pregnant body.

“Tonight I finally saw her 2007 film collaboration with Jody Oberfelder, Rapt (cinematography and editing by Leslie Avery Gould), at Kinetic Cinema’s Liquid Films evening curated by Amy Greenfield. I am fascinated by my own fascination with her; there is nothing complicated about her movements or concepts – in a lot of ways they’re downright conventional – but there’s something undeniably compelling in her swirling, swimming, swinging imagery.”