Sapphire Craou(auex)tchk
Sapphire Craou(auex)tchk (she/her) is a performer, philanthropist, model, writer, historian, scholar, filmmaker, doula, social worker, political activist, anti-racism coach, vulva-bearing femme white womxn of colored experience creating art at the intersections of performance art, endurance art, mime, dance, and feminist screaming.
In her time at NYADA Performance Art College & Conservatory in the City of New York, she studied under prolific instructors such as Wesely Snipes and Lin Manuel Miranda. She received her Ph.D. in Engaging Your Core from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s International Wiggling Academy located at Laguardia Airport.
Her short film This Cat and All That, a documentary that followed the tour of her performance art piece Beat 0: The Artist Won’t Be There solidified her EGOT status and propelled her into the world of premium dynamically priced mentorship and guru-ism.
An ally, a listener, and a friend. Sapphire is truly a pillar of the arts.
“I am very excited to announce that I will be collaborating with one of my long-time students Jay Délise. It fills me with so much pride knowing that she is leaping to such amazing new heights. Although I was not featured in the formal announcement, I just wanted to provide some clarity around what this project is.
&&&Art is a gut-wrenching play about the perils of being of color and an artist in today’s white-dominated performing arts space. Jay uses some of the techniques we worked on in our time together to put a jagged, urban, unpolished but articulate mirror up to the white face of art that takes the mic and proclaims that it is superior. It cries for help and pleads to be released from the shackles of the known excellence of the Great White Way.
We deserve to see this work.
It is imperative that we learn something from this work.
I am a part of this work.”
— Sapphire Craou(aeux)tchk
Image courtesy of Jay Délise
