Sarah Elgart
Co-Founder (2007/2008)
(Choreographer, Dancer, Filmmaker, Director)
Critically acclaimed director/choreographer Sarah Elgart has worked extensively in stage, film, television, circus, alternative venues and more. She has created theatre and film projects within a wide range of communities including recovering substance abusers, transitional homeless women, maximum-security inmates and others. In 1991 Elgart founded La Boca Performance Space and MADRES, a critically acclaimed performance group of transitional homeless women which toured to Europe. Sarah's work has been produced and commissioned by venues including the Mark Taper Forum, Getty Center for the Arts, The Olympic Arts and Los Angeles Festivals, the Kennedy Center and more.
In film and television Sarah has worked with noted directors including Bob Giraldi, Curtis Hanson, David Lynch, Julian Temple, and others, as well as served four years as Performance Producer, Music Department Head, and Segment Director for The Disney Channel. She has twice been selected for the Sundance Dance/Film Lab as a director and choreographer and is the recipient of numerous grants from the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, Englehard Hanovia and others. Her recent work as a director includes music videos for Mia Doi Todd and Angela Luna, and have garnered her two Accolade Awards, "Best in Show" and "Best Direction".
From 1998-2002 Elgart worked with critically and terminally ill young people at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to create short texts based on their hopes, fears, and dreams for the future. The Dream Project produced two anthologies of over three hundred “dreams”, more than 20 short films, and was funded in part by the California Arts Council and City of LA Cultural Affairs Department. Shorts from The Dream Project have screened at AFI and film festivals around the world. As Co-Founder of Make a Film Foundation, Sarah continues the spirit of this work.
