Sara Opelts Koluch (1995, Salzburg) is a Czech dancer, choreographer, and certified Gyrokinesis® instructor based in Dresden, Germany. She graduated in Dance Theatre at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague, earned an MA in Dance Composition at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and completed the Meisterklasse research programme at Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden with the artistic research project Cultivating Presence in Dance Practice.

She has collaborated with choreographers and artists including Sasha Waltz & Guests, Jérôme Bel, Susanne Linke, Michal Záhora, Henrietta Horn, Urs Dietrich, LaborGras and Olga Zitluhina, and has participated in reconstructions of works by Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman, shaping her interest in both historical and contemporary movement languages. Since 2023, she has been a guest dancer with Sasha Waltz & Guests in Beethoven 7 and In C.

Her choreographic works include Mirror, Mirror (Duncan Centre 2017), Portrait of a Post-Habsburgian (Mittelfest 2021), Grinning like Facepacks (Tanzwerkstatt Europa 2022), and Remembering Bach to Joplin (Sociaetestheater 2024). She has worked as choreographic assistant and rehearsal director for Notturno by Veronika Riz (Kulturkontakt Eppan, Italy).

Sara is actively engaged in community and educational work. She served as a tutor for In C – Marler Partitur (2022) by Sasha Waltz & Guests, as well as danced In C for Let Amsterdam Dance, a community project by Dutch National Ballet celebrating Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary. She also participated in restaging the community version of In C at the Wandering Festival (2026) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland.

She thought as a guest instructor at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, and she restaged In C by Sasha Waltz and Guests at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz.

In 2023 she received the Dance Research NRW Scholarship for her ongoing project Portrait of…, exploring cultural identity through movement.

Sara has held residencies at institutions including Meta Theater Moosach, Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel, Czeskie Centrum Warszawa, Pawilon Tańca, IP Studio Wrocław, Bakelit Multi Art Center Budapest, Qulturwerkstatt Netphen and Dans i Blekinge.

She is currently developing her full-length solo I Will Dance for You, which was presented in a work-in-progress format at the Bradjupa Festival in Karlshamn, Sweden, in 2026.