The New York Baroque Dance Co.

photo by Dave Moss

Sarah Edgar, Associate Director of the NYBDC, is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, stage director and researcher specializing in eighteenth century performance.

Since beginning her professional career as a dancer with The New York Baroque Dance Company in 1999, she has voraciously studied and experimented with the stage conventions of the period.  Now based in Chicago, she is overseeing the company’s activities in the Midwest.

She is also the stage director/choreographer at Haymarket Opera Company in Chicago, where she recently directed the modern premiere of Marin Marais’ Ariane et Bachus (1696).

Sarah lived in Köln, Germany from 2006-2012, and she visited all the museums, castles, and gardens in Europe that she could manage while still dancing in operas and creating new works with her group The Punk’s Delight.

She has taught master classes in baroque dance at numerous universities in the United States and in Germany, and has given several lectures at symposia for eighteenth century performance. She is frequently asked to direct/choreograph operas at Wheaton College and DePaul University.

She holds a BFA summa cum laude in dance performance from The Ohio State University, and an MA in Tanzwissenschaft from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.