Sara Koluchová
Sara Koluchová was born in 1995 in Salzburg is a Czech dancer, choreographer, and certified Gyrokinesis® instructor. She graduated from the Dance Theatre program at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague in 2017 and earned a Master of Arts in Dance Composition from Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2021.
Koluchova has collaborated with notable choreographers such as Michal Záhora, Henrietta Horn, Urs Dietrich, Ivan Strelkin, Olga Zitluhina, Sylvia Lewandovska, Ben J. Riepe, Anne-Lise Brevers, Olivia Ancona, Susanne Linke, Jerome Bel, LaborGras, and Elisabeth Schwartz. She has participated in various projects reconstructing dances by Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman, sparking her ongoing exploration of both historical and contemporary dance vocabularies.
Her works include solo choreographies like »Mirror, Mirror« (Duncan Centre, 2017) and »Portrait of a Post-Habsburgian« (Mittelfest 2021, Italy). Her most recent solo piece, »Grinning like Facepacks« premiered at Open Stage Tanzwerkstatt Europa 2022 in Munich.
In 2021, she co-founded the creative duo Jennie&Sara in Wonderland with Jennie Boultbee, focusing on innovative research projects and artistic initiatives. Their work includes #nonsenseabouthappydays, which explores surrealism in dance, and the research on Jooss-Leeder method and Folkwang Dance applied to contemporary contexts. In 2022, Koluchova was a tutor for »In C - Marler Partitur«, a community dance project by Sasha Waltz and Guests.
In 2023, Koluchova received the Dance Research NRW Scholarship for her research project “Portrait of…” and joined Sasha Waltz and Guests for the performances »Beethoven 7« and »In C«.
She occasionally teaches as a guest instructor at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and other institutions and continues to engage in community dance projects. Currently, Koluchova is conducting various research endeavors, including »Portrait of...«, which explores cultural identity through movement, and »I Will Dance for You« (Meisterklasse 2024-2026 at Palucca Hochschule für Tanz), which investigates the concept of presence in dance practice.
