Profile
Training
| 2019 - 2021 | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching |
Movement Experience whilst on the MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching
2020 Movement assistant to Maja Milatovic-Ovadia, The Plaza, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Worked with a company comprised of 22 MA Musical Theatre Students to create a devised musical. Did individual actor movement sessions, created and ran a themed limber, and worked as aa movement and choreography assistant to choreographer Avalon Rathgeb.
2019/2020 Researcher and movement facilitator, Intimacy is Closeness - How can metaphorical language be used by movement directors? Researching and facilitating movement sessions intentionally rooted in primary metaphors to enable the actors to utilize their existing embodied knowledge and come away with specific bodily experiences to establish the physical movement language of a show.
Productions and Teaching
As a Movement Director and Choreographer
Theatre
2018/2019 Movement director and choreographer, Newsies, Kingwood High School
2018 Movement director and choreographer, Little Shop of Horrors, Kingwood High School
2018 Choreographer, The Fantastiks, Lone Star College Cy-Fair
2018 Choreographer, Fiddler on the Roof, KHS and KPark High School
2017 Director and choreographer, Liberators, An American Musical **WORLD PREMIERE**
2017 Movement director, Antony and Cleopatra, SRO/Obsidian Theatre
Web Series
2018/2019 Assistant director/movement and choreography, PRESTO! Fairy Tales, a Web series, Season 2 (Anticipated YouTube Release in 2020)
2017/2018 Assistant director/movement and choreography, PRESTO! Fairy Tales, a Web series, Season 1
Teaching
2018/2019 Atascocita Dance Academy, Dance Instructor and Actor Movement Classes (grades 3-12)
2018 Queensbury Theatre, Dance Instructor (pre-k through grade 12)
2016-2018 HITS Theatre, Director, choreographer and instructor for a variety of educational productions and classes (grades K-12). Focused on training students in theatre and dance skills with the culmination of a production at the end of each session.
Biography
Sarah Sneesby is a Houston, Texas based director, movement director, choreographer, and teacher. She took classes in theatre, dance, and music while completing her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (summa cum laude). After graduation, Sarah continued performing, choreographing, and directing for local theatres until she retired from Oil & Gas to pursue her passion for Movement and Choreography full-time in 2018
Sarah is currently a full-time MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching student at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She strongly believes that the human body is an amazing instrument and the primary storyteller actors and dancers use it to portray information. Sarah creates her work with stylistic accuracy and technical quality focusing on movement being the primary means to externalize thoughts and intentions. As a dance and movement instructor, with both an artistic and scientific training background, she has a passion for helping artists of all ages develop new technical skills and push their preconceived notions and self-imposed boundaries to discover new ways to tell stories with their bodies.
Skills
Devising movement, choreography (dance, theatre, musical theatre), chorus work, contact improvisation, dance improvisation, strength and conditioning, ballet (int/adv.), tap (beg/int.), jazz (int/adv), modern (int.), partnering and lifts (int/adv), west coast swing (int), Lindy hop (beg/int), waltz (beg/int), reading music
