sarah ingel (she/they) is a dance artist and performance maker from Charlotte NC.

Focusing on effort, endurance, repetition, and emotional virtuosity, their work explores contemporary mythologies, the rituals that connect us, and collective emotional phenomena – love, grief, fear, rage, resistance, dreams, madness, + fantasy. Practicing world building and myth making from a queer and feminist perspective, Ingel uses experimental, art rock, sci-fi and DIY methodologies to craft environments where the choreographic, emotional, and theatrical can interact. She aims to engage with empathy, vulnerability, criticality, and humanity while simultaneously playing with spectacle and stage technology.

Ingel graduated from University of 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. Ingel recently graduated with her MFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and spent summer semesters in Montpellier, France while the program was in residence at the Institut Chorégraphique International // Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier/Occitanie. While earning her graduate degree, she taught composition, theory, and repertory courses as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Dance and worked alongside Dean/Director Donna Faye Burchfield as an Artistic and Administrative Associate to the MFA Program. 

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 the Philadelphia Fringe Festival/Cannonball (2024), 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 Helene 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 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/Artist 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, an annual showcase promoting femme performance makers in the Southeast since 2015. 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.