Dr Sarah Hopfinger
Dr Sarah Hopfinger is a Lecturer in Research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a practitioner-researcher with specialisms in disability dance, chronic pain and crip theory, ecological performance, and intergenerational practice.
Sarah’s research is published as performance lectures, blogs, peer reviewed journals such as Performance Research and RiDE, and book chapters in for example The Cambridge Companion to Theatre and Ecology (2025), Diffracting New Materialisms: Emerging Methods for Artistic Research (2023 Palgrave) and The Routledge Companion to European Theatre and Performance (2023).
Her research outcomes also take the form of new performances. Her award-winning and critically acclaimed performance work sits between dance, performance, and live art, taking the form of solo, collaborative and participatory choreographic pieces. She often works with diverse collaborators including children and adults, trained and non-trained dancers, disabled and non-disabled performers, and artists from different disciplines. She has presented performances nationally and internationally, such as the Tramway, Take Me Somewhere, South London Gallery, The Place, The Roundhouse and Festival Quartier Danses (Canada).