© Photo by Kerrie Welsh
© Photo by Kerrie Welsh
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Sasha Welsh is a Brooklyn-based dancer/choreographer and visual artist. Her choreography explores states of awareness, the potential of memory and imagination, and the limitations and possibilities of the human body. Her choreography and video art have been seen in venues such as Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dance Conversations at the Flea, Body Blend at Dixon Place, the INOVA galleries (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (her work was a Philadelphia City Paper pick of the Fringe in 2004), The Far Space, and the Glue Performance Series at the CEC (Philadelphia).
Welsh has earned degrees from Temple University (MFA 2004, advised by Merian Soto), Swarthmore College (BA in dance and visual arts), and Laban Centre London (PDDS). At Temple University she was a fully funded Graduate Teaching Assistant. She has worked extensively with Lifeforms animation and with DV/ Final Cut Pro editing, and Photoshop, DVD studio Pro, Quark, Dreamweaver, and HTML. At Swarthmore she was awarded both a Friends of Music and Dance Scholarship for summer studies, and the Melvin B. Troy prize for her choreography. Sasha has also studied at The North Carolina School for the Arts, The Graham School, and the Tisch School at NYU. She currently studies anatomy and dance conditioning with Irene Dowd, and takes class at Movement Research.
Sasha has taught dance at DeSales University and Temple University, and Pilates at Swarthmore College and Koresh Dance Center. She also administered and taught for community outreach programs in Chester, PA (Chester East Side Cultural Arts Program, and Darlington Fine Arts Center). She currently teaches Pilates in Tribeca.