Sarah McCormick received her BA in World Arts & Culture from UCLA and her MFA from SUNY Brockport. She has taught dance at SUNY Brockport, Bates College and the USM in Maine, and Providence College in Rhode Island. Her choreography embodies a World Dance approach, as she combines her intensive Western modern dance and ballet training with her explorations in Indian, Balinese, Japanese, and African movements. From 1990-1995, her company Tyndale/Sarah Pogostin produced works in New York and abroad in such venues as Movement Research, DIA Art Foundation, Cunningham Studio, St. Mark’s Church and DTW, in addition to performances in Barcelona and Vienna.  Ms. McCormick’s work has also been highlighted at various universities and festivals, including SUNY Brockport, IMS Festival in Rochester, Iowa University, Bates Summer Dance Festival, and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival. Ms. McCormick has performed and presented papers at various conferences including, NDEO (National Dance Education Organization), CORD (Conference on Research in Dance), the National Women’s Studies Organization, and recently at the Creative Center 2007: The Arts in Maine Schools. Ms. McCormick is currently working on two papers, Commedia D’elle Arte and Buster Keaton, which embraces the impact of physical theater in our modern world, and The Inherent Familiar: Metaphor or Truth in Choreography concerning embodied cognitive theories in relation to postmodern choreography.