Sammy Roth
Board Member
Sammy Roth is a dance artist, performance scholar, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles. Administratively she has held a range of positions for non-profit organizations such as Assistant Performance Coordinator at the Museum of Modern Art and Company Manager for several emerging to mid-career dance companies including TLD. Sammy is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Culture and Performance at UCLA, where she studies how popular movement practices have been used to shape perceptual capacities for social control within the white settler state of the United States. She is a 2018 recipient of the Dance Studies Association's Selma Jeanne Cohen Award, and has performed at the Kimmel Center, Suzanne Dellal Center, Highways Performance Space, St. Mark’s Church, and European Capital of Culture Festival among others. Artistically, Sammy collaborates with poet Joey De Jesus and vocal artist B Taylor in technologically-mediated improvisation rituals that test the limits of embodiment and being. She holds a B.F.A. in Dance from Ohio University and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University.
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