Sarita Garlic has been dancing for over 30 years and is a professional dancer. She trained and danced with world renowned dance companies in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. She has been well trained in ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop and lyrical dance. In 1999, Sarita answered the call of the Lord to Liturgical Dance and has been ministering through the Arts ever since. She has ministered in, interpretive dance and drama at numerous ministry engagements in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
In 2007, Sarita had the pleasure of co-writing, co-directing and acting with Kimberly Brown and Timotheus Peay in “The Nobodies”, a musical broken up into three short stories in which she did a short piece about her life.The musical was first performed at Eisenhower Middle School and in January 2008 was performed for the second time at the Arts Bank Theater at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Sarita is a Dance Instructor at Christ Center for Dance and has been a Lead Dance Instructor for 8 years. She also serves with Gather Connection Fellowship and is the Assistant Director of CCD’s newly formed interpretive dance company, Reveal Dance Theater.
Sarita’s desire is to glorify the Lord with her life and gifts as well as train and equip other artists to do the same through systematic teaching. She believes that the Arts are a vehicle in which the Lord uses her and empowers others to draw people to Himself in order to grow in their understanding of who He is and show them how much He loves them. She counts it a privilege and an honor to be used by the Lord in such a life changing way that she has experienced change in her own life.
Sarita is a member at Catalyst for Change Church in West Philadelphia, PA under the Leadership of Pastor Keon Gerow where she serves on the Creative Arts Ministry through Dance and Drama.
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