Sara Lavan

Sara Lavan is the Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Local Motion Project, a non-profit dance organization in Alexandria, Virginia. Here she also directs the LMP Collective, an intergenerational adult dance ensemble whose work is presented in the DC Metro area. She is teaching artist with the Kennedy Center, and on the Virginia Commission for the Arts teaching roster. Sara serves on the National Dance Education Organization’s Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Accountability committee, and as Executive Committee Co-Chair of the Youth Support Network’s Middle School Programming Group in Alexandria  

Sara has performed and created work in NYC and the DC Metro area with Deborah Damast, Igal Perry, Sarah Skaggs, Dance Exchange, the Choreographers Collaboration Project, the LMP Collective, and on several independent projects. Her work has been performed at Gala Hispanic Theatre, Capitol Hill Arts Center, Arena Stage, Dance Place in Washington, DC, Memorial Theater, Carlyle Park, and The Garden in Alexandria, VA, Fredgren Studio Theater in Arlington, VA, and Salvatore Capezio Theater in NYC, and featured in film festivals and on TEDx.  

She participates in extensive continued learning related to the field of dance. Recent examples include The Anatomy of Choice: Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with Alexandra Bellar, Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: Applied Science of Dancer Health and Injury Prevention, Dance for Parkinson’s at the Kennedy Center with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and Dance Theater and Performance with Annabella Lenzu. She has been published in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, and Dance Studio Life and has presented at NDEO conferences, partnered with the Smithsonian Institute and Folklife Festival on programming, and facilitated professional development for Arena Stage in Washington, DC. She received her BA from New York University.

Contact: slavan@localmotionproject.org