Sara Procopio
Sara Procopio is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, educator, and arts manager. With 25 years of professional experience performing and teaching in national and international venues, studios, and classrooms, as well as behind the scenes providing administrative plus development support, she views her work as wholeheartedly in service to the expansive field of dance and performance.
Biography
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 2001-2012, her work with Shen Wei included originating roles in ten works with extensive national and international at renowned venues and festivals around the world. From 2012-2019 she performed extensively in the work of choreographer and media artist Jonah Bokaer with global appearances at the BAM Next Wave Festival, Brisbane Festival, Lyon Biennale, and the National Theater of Serbia. She has also performed in the work of Meredith Glisson, Laura Gutierrez, Madeline Hollander, Gina Milovan Kohler, Paul Lazar, and at the Metropolitan Opera in the 2022 premiere of The Hours, directed by Phelim McDermott and choreographed by Annie-B Parson.
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 United States. She was a faculty member at University of the Arts from January 2011-May 2024 alongside guest teaching engagements at youth programs, high schools, colleges, and universities including Connecticut College, Middlebury College, Hollins University, Marymount Manhattan College, Paolo Grassi, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, and UNCSA.
Throughout her performance and teaching career, Procopio has supported numerous artists and companies in the areas of management, finance, grant writing, research, and communication to many dance companies and individual artists. She was an Arts Management Fellow through a program of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Professional Development Program and has served as a Tour Coordinator for international dance and music artists invited to visit the U.S. by the State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. Currently, she provides administrative and development support to arts organizations including Ballet Hispánico, Big Dance Theater, DeVos Institute for Arts Management, Memoirs of Black in Ballet, New Orleans Ballet Association, and Hélène Simoneau Danse.
Procopio is a visiting faculty member in the BFA in Dance Lab at Bennington for Fall 2024.