SARAH CROWELL has taught her unique blend of modern, jazz and hip-hop dance to youth all over the Bay Area, in schools and community centers, for the past 12 years. She teaches dance with meditation, choreography, and theater, and a strong emphasis on self expression and exploration, encouraging youth to find their own voice through the arts. She was the Performing Arts Director at Destiny Arts Center for 12 years and moved into the position of Executive Director of Destiny in June, 2002. At Destiny she co-created the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, a troupe for teens to create original dance/theater/martial arts productions based on their own experiences. Sarah has received 9 California Arts Council Artist in Residency grants for her work at Destiny Arts Center. Sarah also ran the dance program at Lick-Wilmerding High School in SF for 3 years, and directed an award-winning hip-hop dance ensemble at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, CA, for 5 years.

Sarah studied ballet, modern and jazz dance with teachers who trained with the Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and the National Ballet of Canada, among others. Her experience also comes from dancing in clubs, watching MTV and teaching youth who live in the world of hip-hop. She has danced with modern, jazz and dance/theater companies in Boston and the Bay Area since 1984, including Boston’s Impulse Jazz Dance Company and Oakland’s Dance Brigade. Sarah co-directs the dance/theater company called i am! Productions, that performs a two-woman show called "Portrait of a Girl from Nowhere... an urban fairy tale." "Portrait..." explores issues of bi-racial identity, and has toured nationally and to Beijing, China for the 1995 NGO Forum on Women.