Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange hosts:
LVDEmoves Classes
Contemporary Movement & Repertory Workshop
with Sarah Carlson
Date : Sun. September 21, 2025
Time : 1pm-3pm
Rate : $20/drop in
Level :: Int/Adv dancers (16+)
Steinbright Hall Dance Studio
Cedar Crest College
100 College Dr, Allentown, PA 18104
WHAT TO EXPECT :: Contemporary movement styles & DanceLink repertory class
Sarah Carlson, Artistic Director of DanceLink, will teach modern dance phrases from a variety of company repertory. A release-based warm-up will lead into rep phrases that include partnering skills and group work. Come move your way through different choreographic structures and explore one choreographer's expressive voice!
Questions? Please email: lehighvalleydanceexchange@gmail.com
This programming is part of our "Give what you can Gift" fundraising campaign. Additional donations will help keep Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange moving!
In 2024, Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange spent 85% of its budget to pay 20 artists who either taught, performed, or helped facilitate programs that kept dance thriving in the Lehigh Valley. The remaining 15% went towards boring but necessary things like website hosting and marketing to make sure people know about dance happening in the Valley. We have been doing this since 2009, and we need your help.
It takes at least $6,000 to produce our annual programming which will include our 14th Annual SpringUP Dance Festival, scholarships for students in financial need, master classes & workshops, and performance opportunities like Dance EXposure at SteelStacks.
With your donation gift, you are getting our organization closer to our $3,000 fundraising goal. Thank you for helping Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange, which then directly helps the individual dance artists that make our local community vibrant.
Donate any dollar amount at checkout or make a tax deductible donation by visiting our Fractured Altas Fiscal Sponsor Campaign here, https://www.lvdanceexchange.org/donate
ABOUT SARAH CARLSON::
Sarah Carlson danced professionally for 10 years in NYC with numerous companies including Alexandra Beller/Dances, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Clare Byrne Dance, Paul Mosley Dance and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. As an independent choreographer, her own work has been presented throughout the US at venues such as ArtsQuest SteelStacks, Gibney Dance in NYC, On the Boards in Seattle, and The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard as well as in Benin, Africa. Sarah is a co-director of the Lehigh Valley Dance Exchange & a licensed massage therapist. Sarah is currently an Associate Professor of Dance at Cedar Crest College and has been on the dance faculty at Lehigh University, Muhlenberg College, DeSales University, and the University of Southern Mississippi. In 2007, she completed a Fulbright Grant studying Vodou ritual dance in Benin, Africa furthering an on-going inquiry into sacred dance forms. Sarah is the proud recipient of the 2023 LVAIC Dance Consortium’s Dance Service Award. In 2008, Sarah founded DanceLink to promote community and to use the wisdom of the body to unpack the big questions, often spiritual in nature. Sarah received a BA in French and European Studies from Connecticut College and an MFA in Dance from the University of Washington.
Masterclass Series
Join us for open masterclasses & workshops with some of the industries most sought out teaching artists, choreographers, directors, and dancers. It is part of our mission to facilitate accessible and high quality training opportunities for the dance community in the Lehigh Valley region.
LVDE MOVES: Rotating Artist Series
LVDE is launching a new class series to supplement our regular masterclass programming!
Are you interested in leading class for the Lehigh Valley Dance community? Click below to apply!
Guest Teaching Artist Archive:
STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, David Leventhal - Dance for PD introductory workshop series, Antonio Brown, Sammy Reyes, Gregory Dolbashian, Tara Madsen Robbins, Sarah Carlson, Brandon Girouard, Jessica Warchal-King, Sidra Bell, Keith Thompson, Sarah Parker, Shana Simmons, Alyce Finwall, Tatiana Desardouin, Hayden Frederick, Charles O. Anderson,
