Choreographer
Director
Sara Silkin
A multi-disciplinary dance artist and filmmaker, Sara is blind in her left eye and explores the things she can't clearly see–
her memories. By going back and capturing the smallest gestures to the largest leaps of faith, she creates work that moves
you viscerally through her unique approach to storytelling through movement and film.
About
Sara Silkin is a French-American-Tunisian artist who holds her BA from UCLA and her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she was awarded The John Houston Directing Scholarship. She choreographed the Emmy-winning short film “Jibaro” from “Love, Death, & Robots.” She has collaborated with AI artist Refik Anadol on the LA Philharmonic’s 100th Anniversary at The Walt Disney Concert Hall. She has shown work at LACMA, The Ford Theater, and The Centre Pompidou. Sara has choreographed and movement directed for brands: Samsung, Nike, Converse, Sandro, and many more. She is currently the managing director of The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar
Lost Mind
Commissioned by Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company Fall 2020, LOST MIND is a narrative dance film exploration of the psyche by Sara Silkin. The short film recounts her inability to identify her father's mental illness throughout her life. With her powerful application of surrealist movement imagery, she recreates the emotional physical highs experienced during a manic episode, followed by the endless spirals of depression caused by bipolar disorder.
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Press
Los Angeles Times:
“How Sara Silkin’s choreogrpahy for ‘Jibaro’ turned animation into a study of movement”
Dance Magazine:
“It’s unusual for an animated short film to make a splash in the cultural mainstream. It’s even more surprising when that film is devoid of dialogue and wide open to interpretation.”
“How Sara Silkin’s choreogrpahy for ‘Jibaro’ turned animation into a study of movement”
Dance Magazine:
“It’s unusual for an animated short film to make a splash in the cultural mainstream. It’s even more surprising when that film is devoid of dialogue and wide open to interpretation.”
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Credits
News
Dance Camera West Film Festival Short film winner (2025)
Contributing choreographer for video game Judas from the creator of Bioshock (2025)
Presented THIS IS FOR YOU at International Dance Festival New Orleans (2024)
Presented THIS IS FOR YOU at Dance for Life Festival in Los Angeles (2024)
Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship for ChoreoTech program (2024)
Suki Waterhouse "OMG" Music Video (2024)
Apple TV+ SideQuest episode choreographer (2024)
CalArts guest choreographer for Winter Dance show (2023)
Contributing choreographer for video game Judas from the creator of Bioshock (2025)
Presented THIS IS FOR YOU at International Dance Festival New Orleans (2024)
Presented THIS IS FOR YOU at Dance for Life Festival in Los Angeles (2024)
Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship for ChoreoTech program (2024)
Suki Waterhouse "OMG" Music Video (2024)
Apple TV+ SideQuest episode choreographer (2024)
CalArts guest choreographer for Winter Dance show (2023)
Show
This is For You is a dance theater piece that utilizes the art of illusion (magic), movement (dance), and theater (voice) to explore lost memories– the moments we erase or rewrite to keep moving forward in our lives. Premiered November 2023 at G-Son Studios in Los Angeles.
“The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it becomes.”