My name, if you haven't noticed, is Sage Harper. I am 22 years old and currently a super senior at OU. I am majoring in Psychology (really just so I can graduate in sooner than 6 years) and have completed my minor for Health and Exercise Science which i'll be usuing as a stepping stone to become a personal trainer and then one day a Physical Therapist. When I graduate in December I will be applying to the Physical Therapy assistant program at Tulsa Community College. If I can really accomplish my dream I will be a PT specifically for dancers and athletes. Why only dancers and athletes? Well, I am a dancer myself and have been for the better part of my life (16 or 17 years now) and I have also torn my PCL and meniscus when I played basketball in high school so I know how much it sucks getting back into dance and sports after such an intense injury. I want to work with dancers and athletes and teach them how to stretch and train properly so that they can minimize the amount and severity of injuries and can continue to follow their dreams!
I am currently a member of a dance company in Tulsa, Oklahoma called Portico Danse Theatre and have been for about a three and a half years now. However, I am not just a dancer with the company but also one of their main aerialists! I'm actually sort of a co-director for our aerial program. What on earth is an 'aerialist'? Well, it is this:
(Personal photo.
Taken July 19th, 2014 in the Williams theater at the Tulsa PAC.
Performing "911" in "Mob Mental.Ity" by Portico Danse Theatre.
I am the one on the right)
Yep, I dance on silks and lyra (I've also done a little bit with strap loops, wrist straps, as well as static and flying trapeze) way high in the air, only locked in by my feet and sometimes not even that. I have been performing aerial for almost four years now. I have also done modern, lyrical, jazz, contemporary ballet and a little hip hop (poorly).
Other aerial apparatuses:
Personal photo: 2015 rigging workshop wrist straps
Personal photo: 2016 strap loops workshop with Anya Shevelyuk
Personal photo: Beginning partners lyra workshop with me (black sports bra) and my roommate Paris (pink shirt)
I was born in Santa Barbra, California but raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both sets of my grandparents along with most of the rest of my family lives in Tulsa as well so it makes it nice to have such a strong support system.
I am incredibly obsessed with dragons. I love to draw them, read about them, have stuffed animals of them, watch movies and shows that have dragons in them, I even have a Game of Thrones dragon egg canister that was given to me as a Christmas present. Someday, I will have a dragon tattoo on my leg. No, I have not seen the movie "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" nor will I.
But on the topic of tattoos, I have four tattoos! All of my tattoos hold an incredible amount of meaning to me, none of them are just because. The feather is for my dad, the blue dove is for my best friend, the sun and moon is for my mother and the rose is for my maternal grandparents.
Photo info: Personal Photos. Top, my first tattoo. I got it in San Francisco in August of 2010.
Middle, second tattoo. The blue dove. The three droplet things are the tail, then the wing is hollow then the beak is facing my hair line. I got this one in June of 2014 in Tulsa. Bottom, third tattoo was the sun and moon and then the rose I just got a few months ago.
I have two cats named Koko and Marie. I love cats and I have always had cats. I had a dog once for about two weeks but he ate the couch in my backyard so my mom and I gave him to a friend with ten acres of land. I used to have a bearded dragon (again, obsessed with dragons) named Oliver and he was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
That is most of the information I feel like is cool stuff that people would want to know. If you're ever in Tulsa you should check around and see if my dance company is having any shows going on! Feel free to ask questions!
Have a great day!
