Sarah Lane (dancer)

Sarah Lane
Born	San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality	American
Field	Ballet
Training	Draper Center for Dance Boston Ballet

Sarah Lane is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with American Ballet Theatre (ABT).^[1]

Life and career

Lane was born in San Francisco, California. She started training for dance at the Memphis Classical Ballet in Memphis, Tennessee. Her family later moved to Rochester, New York where she continued her training at the Draper Center for Dance Education. At the age of 16, she attended the Boston Ballet's Summer Program on a full scholarship. At the North American Ballet Festival in 2000 and 2001, she won first place and received the Capezio Class Excellence Award.

Seventeen year old Sarah Lane receiving prize money at USA IBC in 2002

In 2002 she received the highest medal in the Junior Division of the Jackson International Ballet Competition. During that time she also performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. Also in 2002, she won the Bronze Medal at the Youth America Grand Prix Competition. Lane joined the American Ballet Theatre in August 2003 as an apprentice, moved up to the corps de ballet in April 2004, and was promoted to soloist in August 2007. She won a Princess Grace Award in 2007 and received a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts in 2008.

Black Swan

Main article: Black Swan dance double controversy

Lane served as a "dance double" for Natalie Portman in the 2010 film Black Swan, a psychological thriller about ballet dancers in New York City.^[2] In a March 3 blog entry for Dance Magazine, editor-in-chief Wendy Perron asked: "Do people really believe that it takes only one year to make a ballerina? We know that Natalie Portman studied ballet as a kid and had a year of intensive training for the film, but that doesn’t add up to being a ballerina. However, it seems that many people believe that Portman did her own dancing in Black Swan." ^[3][4] This led to responses from Benjamin Millepied and Aronofsky, who both defended Portman, as well as a response from Lane on the subject.^[5][6][7]

Selected repertoire

American Ballet Theatre^[1]

• a Shade in La Bayadère
• Blossom in Cinderella
• Amour and a flower girl in Don Quixote
• Anne in Christopher Wheeldon's VIII
• the Flames of Paris pas de deux
• the Two of Diamonds in Jeu de Cartes
• the Chinese Dance in The Nutcracker
• the Youngest Sister in Pillar of Fire by Antony Tudor
• one of Juliet's friends in Romeo and Juliet, Sinatra Suite
• Princess Aurora, Princess Florine and the Fairies of Charity and Joy in The Sleeping Beauty
• the Polish Princess and a Little Swan in Swan Lake
• the White Goat in Sylvia, Theme and Variations

Publications

• "My (Double) Life as a Black Swan." The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2011.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "ABT biography for Sarah Lane". American Ballet Theatre. http://www.abt.org/dancers/detail.asp?Dancer_ID=103. Retrieved 27 April 2010. 
2. ^ Fuhrer, Margaret (April/May 2010). "Ballet All Over: Big Names in Black Swan". Pointe Magazine (Macfadden Performing Arts Media). http://pointemagazine.com/issues/aprilmay-2010/call-board. 
3. ^ Farley, Christopher (March 26, 2011). "Natalie Portman’s ‘Black Swan’ Dance Double Says She Deserves More Credit". The Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/26/natalie-portman%E2%80%99s-black-swan-dance-double-says-she-deserves-more-credit/. Retrieved March 30, 2011. 
4. ^ Perron, Wendy (March 3, 2011). "Is There a Blackout on Black Swan’s Dancing?". Dance Magazine. http://www.dancemagazine.com/blogs/wendy/3733. Retrieved March 30, 2011. 
5. ^ Lenihan, Jean. "Choreographer Benjamin Millepied on life after 'Black Swan'". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-black-swan-millepied-20110323,0,7797743.story. Retrieved March 23, 2011. 
6. ^ Perron, Wendy (March 11, 2011). "Putting the Black Swan Blackout in Context". Dance Magazine. http://dancemagazine.com/blogs/wendy/3741. Retrieved March 26, 2011. 
7. ^ "Darren Aronofsky Defends Natalie Portman's "Black Swan" Dancing". Worstpreviews.com. http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=21139&count=0. Retrieved March 29, 2011. 

External links

• Official ABT biography
• Sarah Lane at the Internet Movie Database

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