Sarah Foster-Sproull is a New Zealand choreographer, dancer and senior lecturer in dance studies at the University of Auckland.
[2] Her masters thesis was entitled Embodied economies: Locating the ‘prosumer-dancer’ within dancers’ experiences of choreographic practice.
[6] In 2018 Foster-Sproull was commissioned by Patricia Barker to choreograph a work to commemorate the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in New Zealand.
[7] For this commission, Foster-Sproull created Despite The Loss Of Small Detail, and it was this work that began her association with the Royal New Zealand Ballet.
[7] Her choreographic work Orchids (2019) produced by her company Foster Group Dance at Circa Theatre and Q Theatre received critical acclaim with an intergeneration group of women dancers; Marianne Schultz, Katie Burton, Rose Philpott, Jahra Wasasala, Joanne Hobern, Tori Manley- Tapu and Ivy Foster.