Sarah is an Australian-born, US-based dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She is a resident artist and senior faculty member of CityDance, as well as the director of S. J. Ewing & Dancers. Nationally and internationally, she is represented by KMP Artists Talent Agency.
Sarah trained at the Australian Ballet School, New Zealand School of Dance, and Marie Walton Mahon Dance Academy (now National College for Dance), and West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Ewing was the recipient of the Victorian State Premier’s Award for Excellence in Dance two years in a row. She moved to Washington, D.C. at age 20 upon receiving her first professional dance contract and has lived here ever since. Ewing joined CityDance in 2010 and has worked in all facets of the organization, including for over a decade with Lorraine Spiegler, rising to the role of Conservatory Managing Director from 2014-2018.
Ewing founded her own professional company, S. J. Ewing & Dancers, in 2013. Ewing has received support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, CityDance, Dance Place, Dance Metro DC, and CulturalDC to create and present new works throughout the District, including at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as both an awardee of their Local Dance Commissioning Project and as one of the first artists commissioned for their recently opened REACH campus. Internationally, Ewing has presented in Paris, France, at the Mona Bismarck American Center for Art & Culture (2012), Theatre Douze (2022), and the Maison des Arts de Créteil (2023), and with the support of a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International grant, in Wellington, New Zealand, for The Performance Arcade (2023), New Zealand’s premier alternative arts festival. Her Virtual Reality films have been screened in Washington DC, Miami, Berlin, and Istanbul.
Across 2024-25, she will create and direct her largest project, “Dancing in Pixels,” a 100-day interactive gallery installation that will immerse participants in the magic of dance and creativity through Virtual Reality dance films and interactive, motion-activated projection installations. Dancing in Pixels is a project of CityDance and is funded by Washington DC’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development.
