Sara Herrera

Sara Herrera is a professional artist, choreographer, and performer with 18 years of experience

teaching dance in the DC metro area, NYC, NJ, summer stock in Maine and at the Sapperlot

Youth Theatre Festival in Brixen, Italy. She has performed and toured nationally in productions

such as What's Going On-The Marvin Gaye Project (a DancePlace and VT Dance production),

Paper Dreams (Imagination Stage production in collaboration with Mons Dansa-Barcelona,

Spain); performed with DC local theater-Pointless Theatre; The Women’s Voices International

Theatre Festival with Rainbow Theatre Project; In Series: Opera and More as a flamenco

dancer in the Spanish operas, La Vida Breve, Goyesca’s y Goyesquitas at the Gala Hispanic

Theater with additional performances at the Embassies of Indonesia, Austria, and Hungary. She

has been a guest artist with some of Washington DC’s most prestigious dance companies such

as darlingdance, Rebollar Dance, Uprooted Dance, SpaceTime Dance, DancEthos and with the

Minneapolis based dance company, BodyCartography. Sara’s work has been showcased at the

Capital Fringe Festival (DC), Asheville Fringe Festival (NC), Fort Worth Fringe Festival (TX),

Sapperlot Festival (Italy), Arts on Site (NYC) and the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage

commissioned by Agora Dance (DC).

Before returning to her hometown of Fort Worth after 23 years, Sara was passionately involved

in her Washington, DC neighborhood, curating Arts and Community events ranging from free

outdoor summer dance concerts to showcasing local artists during First Fridays. She was the

co-founder of Petworth Arts Collaborative and an active member of the Lower Georgia Avenue

Main Street Neighborhood Strategy Council in Washington, DC.

In Fort Worth, TX, Sara served as the Education Director and Dance Instructor for Artes de la Rosa’s Artes

Academy, a Board Member of Theater Hue and LGBTQ SAVES. Currently Sara lives in Philadelphia, PA and serves as the education coordinator at the Mann Center.