Sarah Van Patten

Sarah Van Patten
Born	1984 (age 26–27) United States
Current group	San Francisco Ballet

Sarah Van Patten (born 1984 in Boston) is a principal dancer^[1] with the San Francisco Ballet. She trained at Boston Ballet and began performing at age 8 in their annual performance of The Nutcracker. By age 10, Sarah was studying with Jacqueline Cronsberg and performing classical ballet repertoire with the Massachusetts Youth Ballet. Sarah attended school at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart and spent her summers studying with Jean-Pierre Bonnefeux, Violette Verdy, and Patricia McBride at the Chautauqua Institution.

In 2000 at age 15, she joined the Royal Danish Ballet as an apprentice,^[2] where John Neumeier cast her as Juliet in his Romeo & Juliet. Soon after, she was promoted to the rank of corps dancer, one of the youngest corps dancer ever invited to the Royal Danish Ballet in its 200-year history. During her corps year, she re-created her role in Romeo & Juliet and originated a soloist role in Peter Martins’ Hallelujah Junction. Sarah joined San Francisco Ballet as a soloist dancer in 2002 and was promoted to the rank of principal dancer in 2007.

Sarah’s featured roles while at San Francisco Ballet include Helgi Tomasson's Nutcracker (Sugarplum Fairy, Tea), Nanna’s Lied, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty; George Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Apollo, Divertimento No. 15 and Serenade; Jerome Robbins' Rodeo, Dybbuk and Afternoon of a Faun; Mark Morris' Sylvia and Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel (a Dance).

References

1. ^ Rachel Howard (march 24, 2007). "Footnotes: 24 March 2007". Footnotes. Archived from the original on 2008-03-03. http://web.archive.org/web/20080303150634/http://rachelhoward.com/archives/2007/03/apparently_san.php. Retrieved 2007-11-28. "...she (van Patten) and Rachel Viselli have just been promoted to principal (dancer)" 
2. ^ Sophie Hayward (June 20, 2000). "Joy Street kid on center stage". the Beacon Hill Times. http://209.204.238.180/times_feature1.mv?20000620. "she’s planning to move to Copenhagen in August to pursue dance full time with the Royal Danish Ballet." 

External links

• http://www.sarahvanpatten.com

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Name	Van Patten, Sarah
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Date of birth	1984
Place of birth	United States
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