Sarah White

Sarah White is a San Francisco native with a Master of Research in Social Anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and a B.A. in Performing Arts & Social Justice from Global College. She has documented the arts of Romany (Gypsy) people and the intertwining of race, power, and aesthetics living with the Kalbeliya Gypsies in Rajasthan, the Roman in Istanbul, the women of the Zar (a trance dance) in Cairo, and the Roma of Romania. She has trained in 25 different dance forms, martial arts, gymnastics, and the flying trapeze. Growing up Sarah was in the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, a diverse group who addressed pressing social issues through dance, theater, and spoken word. She was the star dancer in Neil Young’s internationally touring movie and rock-opera ‘Greendale’ performing in venues such as Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks, Madison Square Garden, and The Shrine across the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, and Australia. Sarah has been a member of Project Bandaloop Youth Group (an aerial dance company) and Ultra Gypsy Dance Theatre Company (the creator of Tribal Fusion) since she was 16, and was a founding member of Barbary Coast Shakedown & Foxglove Sweethearts. In 2007 she received a grant from the National Geographic Society to produce a documentary on the Kalbeliyas and is currently in the Peace Corps Master’s International Program at SIT.