Sara Accettura
Artistic Director
Born in Italy, where she started her dance career and achieved a Diploma for a Proficiency Course for dance teachers at I.D.A. (Ravenna) and a Master in choreography at European Dance Alliance (Rome), Sara graduated in 2007 with a First Class Degree at the London Contemporary Dance School.
Since then she has danced for several companies in the UK, amongst them the National Dance Company of Wales, Cedar Dance, Diciembre Dance, Combination Dance, Leila Dance and Maddogs Dance, the British Fashion Awards, Rich Fulcher, the Secret Cinema of London, whilst teaching in London at The Place and for several dance schools.
In 2009 Sara achieved a Master of Arts in Performance at the London Contemporary Dance School. In 2011 she funded Junior Dance Company Bari, the first youth company in southern Italy. Sara is still working as a freelance dancer with various choreographers, among them Lucia Piquero, Yoshua Cienfuegos, Dana Raz, Mavin Khoo, Oded Ronen, Francesca Tranter, Moritz Zavan Stoeckle.
Sara’s choreographic works have received various awards over the past years, amongst them her work Fragments was awarded overall winner at the International Dance Championship 2012 held in Croatia, and The White Butterfly got the first prize at the International Dance Competition in 2015 in Moscow.
Sara is currently pursuing her PhD in Dance and Autism at the University of Bedfordshire (UK).
She is now artistic director of Junior Dance Company Bari and Malta, artistic director of Dance Master Class Italy, co-director of the inclusive dance project Dance For All, Assistant Lecturer for the School of Performing Arts Dance Studies Department and guest lecturer for the Department of Disability Studies at the University of Malta, and she has recently joined Opening Doors Malta as a dance leader.