Something Striking brings together the work of two formerly NYC-based artists. Now living in Eastern Pennsylvania, Sarah and Pam imagine spiders and strippers, identity and ecstasy all living in the same web. Powerful bodies, sound, and text map the peculiar, the particular, the personal, and the universal.

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Sarah Carlson is the founder and artistic director of DANCELINK and an assistant professor of dance at Muhlenberg College. Sarah danced professionally for 10 years in New York City with numerous companies including Alexandra Beller/Dances, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. Her choreography has been presented at Joyce Soho in NYC, On the Boards in Seattle, The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, and in Benin, Africa.

Pamela Vail is a choreographer, performer, improviser, and teacher. Before moving to Lancaster to join the dance faculty at Franklin & Marshall College, she spent 8 years dancing professionally in New York City. She is a cofounding member of the Architects, an improvisation quartet, a founding member of critically acclaimed Yanira Castro + Co., and currently works with Terry Creach and Heidi Henderson among others.