BABEL

The Company:
BABEL is an NYC-based dance company that engages with timely social issues, utilizing movement as a unifying language to foster empathy and build bridges. The company launched with a sold-out evening length performance in 2017. BABEL’s second evening-length work, United States, No Me Conoces, was performed in 2018 and selected to be performed at Judson Memorial Church.

Committed to providing equitable engagement with dance in addition to their regular performances, BABEL partners with social justice organizations to translate their mission into emotionally resonant dance films, hosts embodiment workshops for survivors of trauma, and offers free dance instruction to BIPOC teens in Upper Manhattan. BABEL has received financial support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, UMEZ, LMCC, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, ARTNOIR, NYFA, and others.

The Choreographer:
Sarah Leñador is a Cypriot-Puerto Rican contemporary movement artist based in Upper Manhattan. She received a BFA in Dance and a minor in Arts for Social Change in 2016 from Marymount Manhattan College, where she was voted “Most Likely to Change the World.”

"Dance entered my life when a speech disability prevented me from verbally communicating, causing movement to become the portal to me tapping into the deepest parts of myself. I have since maintained a firm belief in dance’s ability to connect with an audience through storytelling, which allows us to experience our fullness. I aim to use the principles of realistic fiction to create resonating works where both the audience and performer can encounter the raw and playful mysticism of our lived experiences."

https://babelmovement.org/