Rate My Professor Sarah Barry

Barry joined the University of Alabama faculty around 2006 and has been recognized with the National Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, the Druid City Arts Award for Dance Educator of the Year, and designation as a Leadership Board Faculty Fellow. Major grants include a $15,000 National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces grant to restage José Limón’s There is a Time for the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre, a $5,000 Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and additional Alabama State Council on the Arts grants supporting tours by Yonder Contemporary Dance Company, which she directs. Her choreography has been performed across the United States and internationally at venues including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Italy, and Switzerland. Selected screendances such as “wish you were here” (2020), “there, again,” and “so you want me always to paint flowers” have screened at festivals like Dance Camera Istanbul, the Kalamata International Dance Festival, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, the Utah Dance Film Festival, and Motion Captured. Barry’s publications appear in the Journal of Dance Education, the Journal of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, and the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters journal, with key works including “Methods of Reflective Practice in a Service-Learning Dance Pedagogy Course” (2017), “Analysis of Pelvic Alignment in University Ballet Majors” (2007), and “A Somatic Approach to Education and the Creative Process” (2005). Her contributions advance dance education, somatic practices, and interdisciplinary collaboration.