sarah ingel (she/her/they/them) is an American dance artist and performance maker from Charlotte NC currently living in Philadelphia PA.

Utilizing improvisation, choreography, theatre, costume, sound + space design to make works for both site-specific installation and the stage, Ingel’s work practices ritual/myth making from a queer and feminist perspective, cultivating intimate spaces for audiences to engage with collective experiences of vulnerability, humanity, and empathy.

Ingel graduated from North Carolina School of Arts with a concentration in Contemporary Dance/Composition, then received a BFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the American Dance Festival. From 2015-2022 Ingel worked at Charlotte Ballet under the direction of Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Hope Muir, Chris Stuart, and Alejandro Cerrudo. Holding the positions of Production/Rehearsal Assistant, Assistant Stage Manager, Company Shoe Manager and Costume Technician, she worked in the studio and behind the scenes in support of choreographers Rena Butler, Peter Chu, Medhi Walerski, Stephanie Martinez, Christian Spuck, Helen Pickett, Matthew Hart and more.

Her choreographic work has been showcased as a part of Charlotte Ballet’s Innovative Works and Choreographic Lab (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) and has also been presented at Hi-Lites Music Fest (2020), alongside Nat Baldwin of the Dirty Projectors (2020), at BOOM CLT (2017, 2018), and Helen Simoneau Danse’s OnSite/InSight (2016). As a dance artist and performer, Ingel has had the privilege of working with artists including Ivy Baldwin, Douglas Becker, Sidra Bell, Leah Cox, Ishmael Houston-Jones, John Jasperse, Vanessa Voskuill, and Jesse Zaritt, as well as musician Dylan Gilbert and XOXO Performance Ensemble.  

They are a 2021/2022 Charlotte Arts and Science Council Emerging Creators Fellow, a 2019 Knight Foundation/National Center for Choreography (Akron) - Dance/USA Scholarship recipient and have been a Collective Member/In Residence at Goodyear Arts since 2015.  Ingel is co-director of repCLT, an organization advocating research + exchange in performance and is a co-founder/producer of ladyfestCLT, promoting femme performance makers in the Southeast. ladyfestCLT won Charlotte Magazine’s Best of the Best Award for Best Dance Event of 2019 and QC Nerve People’s Choice Award for Best Local Show of 2020.

Ingel received their MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in July of 2023. They spent the summer in France while the program was in residence at the Institut Chorégraphique International // Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie. She holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at UArts and works as an Administrative Associate for the MFA Program.