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      <image:caption>Sara Hook performs Homemad Fish or Jesus was a Mermaid, photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rachel Rizzuto, Jacob Henss, and Anna Sapozhnikov in Sara Hook and David Parker’s Reaccounting.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Abby Williams Chin and Kayt MacMaster in Sara’s Dick and Janes (in progress) during a Summer 2022 residency at the University of Illinois.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dance at Illinois students in Sara Hook’s Cedar Closet (2020) Photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Works - Erstwhiles and Sonnambulations</image:title>
      <image:caption>(2017) In two related solos entitled Erstwhiles and Sonnambulations, Sara Hook and Elizabeth Johnson make oblique reference to George Balanchine’s famed ballet, La Sonnambula.  Their parallel interpretations, constructed as a diptych, are performed both separately and in simultaneous counterpoint  to a score by award winning composer Anthony M. Reimer. These timely, personal, political, and romantic laments are part of an ongoing project made in collaboration with dramaturge Betsy Brandt examining the alluring, enduring, and disturbing core of female iconography.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dance at Illinois students in Sara Hook’s Genetic Drift, Photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Endalyn Taylor in Sara Hook’s Is All</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>(2014) Sara Hook and Paul Matteson’s Bored House Guests, is a one hour-long modern reckoning with the conceits of the balletic pas de deux, Featuring music by avant-garde rock artist Nick Didkovsky and the metal band Vomit Fist!  this work offers audiences the opportunity to relish two veteran performers navigate the perilous terrain of the hetero normative trope, smartly redefined as a kind of a vaudevillian haunted house of long-term tragic comic love.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Racy Brand in Sara Hook’s Yegg (2012)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Denise Posnak in Sara Hook’s Game Point</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Cochran in Sara Hook’s Patriot Act Up (2004)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Cochran in Sara Hook’s Valeka’s Vitriol (1999)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anna Sapozhnikov in Sara Hook’s Valeska’s Vitriol (1999)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Cochran in Sara Hook’s Rue (1998)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Luc Vanier in Sara Hook’s Bashibazouk (1997)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook and David Parker in their Housebroken (1995)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Betsy Brandt in Sara Hook’s Janes (2019) photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Betsy Brandt in Sara Hook’s Janes (2019) photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Collaborators</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mary Cochran in Sara Hook’s Valeska’s Vitriol (2005) photo by Lois Greefield</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Cochran in Sara Hook’s Valeska’s Vitriol (2005) photo by Lois Greefield</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Elizabeth Johnson in collaboration with Sara Hook, Erstwhiles and Sonnambulations (2017) photo by Yi-Chun Wu.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Paul Matteson in Sara Hook’s Bored House Guests (2014) photo by Jessica Stack</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Mary Cochran and David Parker in Sara Hook’s Tanz a la Orange (2015) photo by Lois Green</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Emilie Plauché Flink in Sara Hook’s Wonder’s Mist (2010) photo by Bill Cameron.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook teaches for the Academy for Teachers at Gibney</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook teaches for the Academy for Teachers at Gibney</image:caption>
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      <image:title>About</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sara Hook and Stuart Hodes in in Stephen Koplowitz's "Dirty Old Man"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook in Tere O'Connor's "Mumble Bee"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook and David Parker in Parker's "Nut/Cracked" photo by Stephen Schreiber</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook and David Parker in their "Housebroken"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook in her "Bashibazouk"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo by Elliot Reza Emadian</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo of Janes, Sara Hook, 2019. Photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dance at Illinois students in Sara Hook's Valeska's Vitriol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook's Genetic Drift (2016) Photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sara Hook's Is All performed by Katherine Williams (2015) Photo by Natalie Fiol</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>To Seldom Spire (1993) Performed by students from Montclair State University in 2019</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dance at Illinois students in Sara Hook's Dick and Janes (2022)</image:caption>
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