Dance Services By Sara

Sara Wilson

About me…

Dance is my utmost passion and has been since the age of 2. I want every dancer I get the privilege of working with to have fun, be challenged, do things he/she thought they never could, and leave our time together feeling amazing about him/herself. I make sure to create an environment full of love, encouragement, and support whether you’ve been coming to my class for years or it’s your first time. I strive to build my students’ confidence. To me, it’s not just about dance… it’s about so much more than that. I want to build people up through the art and language of dance.

Background

Sara Wilson began dance at the age of 2 in Plano, Texas. She joined the competitive team at age 10 as she trained in ballet, jazz, and tap. She was on the back-to-back national champion team, Plano Dance Force, where she was ADTS regional solo winner and scholarship recipient, named to the All-American Drill Team, and was one of 8 out of 500 to be named to the All-American Dance Company.

Sara received her BFA Dance degree from UT Austin in 2002. During her time at the University of Texas, she was a 2 year member of the department’s modern dance company (serving as soloist the second year), was selected to perform with the internationally touring David Rousseve Company, received an American Ballet Theater work/study scholarship, and was named to Dean’s List numerous semesters.

Some Amazing Distinctions

While at UT, Sara had the priviledge to take classes from Holly Williams (Mark Morris Dance Co.), Lyn Wiltshire (The Wiz, Alvin Ailey), Christine Spizzo (American Ballet Theater), Kirk Peterson (American Ballet Theater), and Betsy Cooper (New York City Ballet) to name a few. Post-graduation, Sara taught at studios in the Dallas area, as well as choreographed a large part of the North Texas Youth Ballet’s “Nutcracker”. In 2003, Sara joined the American Drill Team School staff where she traveled all over the country teaching, judging, and choreographing. In 2004, Sara was the Junior Varsity drill team director at Akins High School in Austin, TX where she led the team to earn state championship in the military division.

In 2006, Sara finally found her way here to Houston where she was the drill team director at Houston ISD’s Lamar High School. During her 7 years at Lamar, Sara took the team from 11 dancers to over 80. Her team earned countless accolades and acknowledgements including Alamo Bowl halftime performers twice, Houston Rockets pregame performers, Houston Texans halftime performers twice, n numerous solo awards, a number of special judges’ awards, and Team Overall Grand Champion three times.

Some of Sara’s students have gone on to teach in studios, join HTE instructional and choreography staff, Captain and President of UH Cougar Dolls as well as other collegiate teams, Director of A&M Fade 2 Black Dance Company, and Houston Texans Cheerleaders.

In addition to teaching here in Houston, Sara was a 2010-2011 Houston Aero Dynamics Dancer and a 2011 Houston Texans Cheerleader finalist.

Currently, Sara is loving being a guest teacher for schools throughout the Houston Area, teaching at Becky’s Academy of Dance, and serving as a judge for Crowd Pleasers, in addition to being a mom to her two kids and wife to her incredible husband.