Sarah Swenson is the Artistic Director of Vox Dance Theatre, formed in 2004 to present her own choreography and the works of others in the modern and post-modern traditions. A neo-modernist, she is committed to the values of historical modern dance while using them in new ways, and seeks to engage the audience in thought as well as feeling. She also works independently with post-modern mavericks Simone Forti and Rudy Perez in Los Angeles. Sarah was on the faculty of The Alvin Ailey School in New York City from 1990 to 1996, teaching the Lester Horton technique in the Professional and Junior divisions, as well as Horton for Actors, Techniques of Performance (repertory and coaching) to advanced students, Floor Barre/Ballet, and Pilates-based Body Conditioning. She was the rehearsal director for the Alvin Ailey Student Performance Group, and annually rehearsed selected Ailey students for their participation in Alvin Ailey's Memoria, performed every season by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. She was an Assistant Teacher in the New Visions Dance Project, a dance and music class for visually impaired adults, and has worked with the hearing-impaired, cerebral palsy, and head and spinal cord injury victims. Sarah also studied the Pilates Method with master Kathleen Stanford Grant for 10 years. As a performing artist, Sarah danced with the Alvin Ailey Special Performance Group, Artists of Jubilation! Ensemble, Louis Johnson Dance Theatre, and toured the People's Republic of China and South Korea with Myung Sook Chun. She has also worked with Senta Driver, Linda Tarnay, and the late Leni Wylliams, among others. A professional repertory and movement coach, Sarah has conducted residencies and performance workshops throughout the US, and in China, Thailand and Israel. She received her MFA in Performance and Choreography from California State University at Long Beach in 2000 and has taught at CSULB, Loyola Marymount University, Cerritos College, Orange County High School for the Arts, and was Chair of Theatre, Music & Dance at Missouri Valley College in central Missouri until mid-2004.