SANDRA KAUFMANN serves as the founding director of the Dance program at Loyola University Chicago with extensive experience as a dancer, director
and educator. She toured widely as a member of the renowned Martha Graham Dance Company, served on the faculty of the Martha Graham School and as Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Ensemble. Sandra also danced with celebrated choreographers, Pearl Lang and Richard Move. A prolific choreographer, Ms. Kaufmann has created work for concert dance, musical theatre productions, aerial dance, opera, protest dances, video and site-specific works. Her choreography has been honored with awards from Dance Magazine Foundation, Tidmarsh Arts Foundation, The American College Dance Festival, Bossak/Heilbrun Foundation and The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Sandra’s activism through dance culminated in an invitation from the Library of Congress in Washington DC to curate and perform a distinctive dance program “The Legacy of the New Dance Group”, a historic group of artists who dedicated themselves to social advocacy. Sandra received a commission from the Sloan Science and Technology Fund to create an interdisciplinary performance about superstring theory in physics, “Searching for Superstrings.” With prominent theoretical physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene and playwright, Michael Bassett, she presented the keynote address for Art/Science International Conference. Her research project “Movement, Gnosis and Scientific Literacy” continues to engage. Sandra has served on the faculty of Barnard College, New York University, The University of Chicago, The Academy of Movement and Music and Loyola University Chicago.