Sarah Gamblin

Professor of Dance

Sarah Gamblin, professor of Dance, carried out her professional dance career in New York City where she was a member of the Bebe Miller Company and Bill Young and Dancers. During her time with those companies she toured Portugal, Poland, Estonia, Peru, Venezuela, St. Petersburg, Russia,  South Africa and numerous cities in the U.S. Gamblin earned her MFA in Dance from the University of Washington in Seattle where she performed with the Chamber Dance Company, Rob Kitsos, Lingo Dance Theater and Amii LeGendre. As a member of Bebe Miller Company, Gamblin originated roles in "Heaven and Earth," "Tiny Sisters in the Enormous Land," "Blessed," "Going to the Wall," "Verge" and "In a Rhythm," and performed in several repertory works such as the Hendrix Project. In 2018 Gamblin taught and performed in seven cities in Colombia and Peru as a member of Bebe Miller Company in the U.S. Department of State sponsored cultural diplomacy tour with Dance U.S.A.

As full professor in Texas Woman's University's Division of Dance, Gamblin teaches contemporary technique, ballet, dancemaking practices, experiential anatomy, coordinates the BA in Dance Studies and mentors MFA Culminating Projects.

Gamblin's main research interest is in creative performance practices and improvisational performance methods. Her choreography has been produced at Conduit Dance Center’s Dance Plus Series in Portland, Oregon, the New Genre Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Seattle Festival of Dance and Improvisation, Bates Dance Festival, Northwest New Works Festival at On the Boards, in New York City at Hundred Grand and Dia Center for the Arts.  In addition, her work has been produced in Texas at the Fusebox Festival in Austin, the Fort Worth Dance Festival, the Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival and TWU. Finally, the University of Montana, Perpetual Motion, Flatlands Dance Theater, Mam-Luft Dance, Texas Christian University, the University of South Florida and ClancyWorks in Washington DC have each commissioned her choreographic work. She gratefully provides kinesthetic accompaniment to the noise artists who gather under the moniker "Molten Plains" and "Improv Lotto" at the famed Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios in Denton.