Sarah Wendt, born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is a Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work weaves together choreography, performance, musical scores and conducting, installation, and sculpture—emerging as a kinaesthetic response to the contingencies of collaboration.
She studied contemporary dance at MainDance (Vancouver) and voice and French horn at the University of Victoria. She was a DanceWEB Europe Scholarship recipient (Vienna) and the APAF Artist-in-Residence in Nova Scotia in 2014. Recently, she taught improvisation in voice and movement, contemporary dance, and creative process at the Holland College School of Performing Arts in Charlottetown, P.E.I., and continues to teach and perform in various social dance forms.
Prior to her collaborative work with Pascal Dufaux, her performances were presented at venues and festivals such as Galerie de l’UQAM; Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, and OFFTA (Montréal); l’Œil de Poisson (Québec City); Art in the Open (Charlottetown); SappyFest (Sackville, NB); Encuentro (Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics); Anode Festival (Melbourne); and Platform Young Performance Artists (Berlin).
Her projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the P.E.I. Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. She has served as a juror for the Canada Council, CALQ, and Arts Nova Scotia. She is a co-founder of Ateliers Casgrain, a long-term multi-floor studio project on Avenue Casgrain in Montréal, and currently sits on the board of Ateliers créatifs Montréal.
She is a member of the Saloon Network.
