Sarah Wilbur (she/hers) is a cross-sector choreographer, educator and arts researcher who studies how economic investments and practices impact labor in the performing arts.
Sarah Wilbur (she/hers) is an artist-scholar who studies US arts labor and institutional support. Her first book, Funding Bodies: Five Decades of Dance Making at the National Endowment for the Arts (2021) historicized the impact of federal dance funding policies on generations of dance artists. Her second book offers a feminist ethnographic account of the shaping influence of the US health industry on local dance work worlds. Sarah co-edits Arts in Context: Critical Performance Infrastructures (U-Texas Press) and co-facilitates the NEH-funded Research Collaborative “Building Equitable Arts Infrastructures.” She is an Associate Professor of the Practice (Dance) at Duke University.https://scholars.duke.edu/person/sarah.wilbur