Sarah Campen
Sarah Campen is an Alaskan choreographer, dancer, podcaster, and multi-media artist. She was born and raised in Sitka and on Killisnoo Island, and is grateful to make her home in Lingít Aaní. Sarah is a Teaching Artist with the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. She has built web story archives for the original theater piece Aan Yátx'u Sáani: Noble People of the Land, the film When the Salmon Spoke, and the audio-installation series Juneau Voices (experience the web story archives at aanyatxu.org.). Her interactive civic arts piece The Rolodex Project// (2018-2019) connected emerging leaders across Southeast Alaska through links digital, analog, and human. Sarah’s latest dance film Let Me Carry That combines contemporary western dance with the Alaskan physical language of hauling gear up a beach. She is currently developing a dance film derived from the gestures used in commercial trolling and highlighting interviews with local fishermen. Her upcoming podcast A Piece of Kake, developed in partnership with Mona Evan and the Organized Village of Kake, will feature stories of “community, culture, and a whole lotta’ food from Kéex’ Kwáan”. Sarah is a member of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice's 2018 Catalyst Initiative Program and a recipient of a 2020 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award. Visit her website at scampen.com.