Sabreen T. Mateen is an EdM Masters candidate in Dance Education at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education. She graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts previously. Sabreen attended Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts Middle/High School as a dance major. She was born in Newark, NJ and raised in East Orange, NJ. Sabreen has choreographed at local schools in New Jersey including Bayonne High School and her own high school, Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts Middle/High School, and at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has performed in choreography by Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts’ dance department professors Keith Thompson and John Evans, widely exalted modern choreographer Mark Morris, and repertory of Ballet Hispanico choreographers. She has also performed at The Joyce Theater and local New Jersey schools as part of the University DanceWorks company at Rutgers. Sabreen has attended Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts, the New Jersey School of Ballet, and has participated in a residency program with Ballet Hispanico under the direction of Nicholas Villenueve. The genres in which she has trained include ballet, modern, hip hop, tap, and jazz.  

       She is also certified with Om Factory NYC as a yoga instructor. Sabreen is an alumna of Rutgers-Newark University’s Upward Bound TRIO Program in which she instructs yoga and dance workshops for high school scholars in an urban community who embark on six day weeks of rigorous pre-collegiate preparation. Sabreen aspires to continue her service in the field of education and dance related fields.