Indigo Sparks (She/Her) is a performer, filmmaker, producer, and yoga teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. Her deep curiosity around the facilitation of community continues to shape her creative practices and interests. Sparks attended The University of The Arts where she trained with choreographers like Bobbi Jene Smith, Gerard and Kelly, Tommie Waheed-Evans and Jesse Zaritt as well as fours year of private vocal performance with Nicole Tranquillo. She has performed at venues like Lincoln Center, The Shed, the International Theater of Amsterdam, Sony Music Hall, Judson Church, CPR Brooklyn, and Triskelion Arts. Her first documentary dance short “it’s a matter of the soul’ earned recognition as a 2021 Sundance Interdisciplinary Grantee.
Sparks is currently a member of Michiyaya Dance Company while working as a guest artist with SLM Dances and The Met’s Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence, Alethea Pace. She holds a 200hr yoga certification from Tangerine Yoga Studio in Downtown, Brooklyn where she also teaches and has produced projects for William Kentridge, The Center For The Less Good Idea, Girl From The North Country Broadway, Francesca Harper, Will Rawls, the Broadway Advocacy Coalition Artivism Fellowship, the NY Jewish Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History, and more. Sparks’ continued curiosity drives her exploration of the intersections between art making, wellness, and community.