Sims graduated from New World School of the Arts. She created and performed in the short dance film 'Sadist Observation' (made possible through New World School of the Arts) which was presented in the Artists of Tomorrow Festival 2003 in NYC and is currently in the archives in the Jerome Robbins section of the Library of the Performing Arts in Lincoln Center through the Dance on Camera Festival. She has also choreographed on dancers from Pittsburgh Ballet, Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, Parsons Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Ellis Wood Dance, Taylor 2 Dance Company, Hawaii Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Munich Ballet. She is a 2008 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She also collaborates with choreographer Fabien Prioville (Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal, La La La Human Steps). Sims has also done production and art on Disney's 'Enchanted', 'Law and Order', 'The Sopranos', Michel Gondry's 'Be Kind Rewind', 'The Bourne Ultimatum', Ridley Scott's 'American Gangster', 'Indiana Jones 4', 'Sex and the City', The Coen Brothers' 'Burn After Reading', '30 Rock', 'CSI: NY', Woody Allen's 'Whatever Works', 'Doubt', 'Revolutionary Road', 'Step Up 3D' and commercials for Christian Dior and Spike Jonze. Her shorts 'Jacqueline Bulnes' and 'Wall Space' were shown in the MementoVivere Festival in Italy and Romania during June 2009. In Venice, Italy June 2010 she presented 'Orchestra' in La Biennale di Venezia's 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Marathon of the Unexpected, along with companies such as Les Grande Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Chunky Move, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Her short dance film ‘Une Minute Embrasse’ (top right) was presented in the festival VideoDanzaBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina September 2010. To view more choreography, please also visit:
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