Sarah Jones - Documentary Filmmaker

Hi I’m Sarah and I am an award-winning, independent filmmaker. I create documentaries that use contemporary dance to illustrate stories of connection and belonging; to ourselves, to others and to our environment. I work with and am a member of the disabled, neurodiverse, 2SLGBTQ+ and contemporary dance communities.

My first film ‘Contested Landscapes’ is a commentary on urban development within the protected land of the Oak Ridges Moraine and won an Audience Choice Award at the Contact Dance International Film Festival (CDIFF) in 2017. The films that followed include ‘bacK’ a personal story of power imbalances on-and-off of the dance floor, ‘Parcon Resilience’ an introduction to a somatic movement practice that is BIPOC centered and ‘Climate Strike Contact’ that illustrates a variety of ways to protest climate injustice including the embodied dance practice of Contact Improvisation.

I screened and released my first feature length film ‘Dovercourt House: a Home for Dance’ in 2021. This documentary contains nearly 30 interviews from the contemporary and social dance communities that consider this building to be their second home. My most recent film ‘The Toronto Contact Improvisation Community’ features origin stories from 8 dancers and won both the Gold Award and the Audience Choice Award at CDIFF in 2023.

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