Sarah Wendt
Chorégraphe, Enseignant.e, Concepteur.rice, Compositeur.rice
Sarah Wendt, originally from Prince Edward Island, Canada, completed post-secondary studies as a dancer and musician. Among her independent studies, she was a recipient of a DanceWEB scholarship (ImPulsTanz, Vienna) where she mentored with Jonathan Burrows. Her projects with sculptor and media artist Pascal Dufaux, have been presented in museums, artist-run centres, and performance festivals in Canada, Europe, and the UK. Recent solo exhibitions include Miel du Temps at the Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, QC (2024); Clairière at Circa Art Actuel, Montréal, QC (2025); Études Ectoplasmiques at L’Écart, Rouyn-Noranda, QC (2023); and the Mountain moves while my fingernails grow at The Rooms, St. John’s, NL (2022). Her performances and compositions have been presented at Take Me Somewhere Festival, Glasgow, UK; FURIES Festival, Marsoui, QC; VIDEO///PLAY in Montreal and Brussels; at Tangente Danse and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and at Theater Kampnagel in Hamburg, DE.
Sarah regularly teaches group classes for all levels she calls Disco as a Score for Pleasure, which combine elements of Latin and line dances, disco and solo and partner improvisation. With Wendt-Dufaux she has created costumes and stage objects for various choreographers.
Her upcoming work with Wendt-Dufaux will be presented at Théâtre La Chapelle and is co-produced by Montréal Danse.