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Sarah Lane (dancer)

Sarah Lane
Born 1983/1984 (age 32–33)
San Francisco, California, United States
Residence Jersey City, New Jersey
Nationality American
Education Draper Center for Dance
Boston Ballet
Occupation Ballet dancer
Years active 2003–present
Spouse(s) Luis Ribagorda (2007– present)
Current group American Ballet Theatre

Sarah Lane (born 1983/1984) is an American ballet dancer and a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).

Lane was born in San Francisco, California. She started training for dance at Ballet Memphis 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.

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.

Her repertoire with the ABT includes: A Shade in La Bayadère, Galya in The Bright Stream, Blossom in Cinderella, Gulnare in Le Corsaire, Amour and a flower girl in Don Quixote, Anne in Christopher Wheeldon's VIII, the Flames of Paris pas de deux, the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, the Two of Diamonds in Jeu de cartes, Clara in Alexei Ratmansky's The Nutcracker, the youngest sister in Pillar of Fire by Antony Tudor, one of Juliet's friends in Romeo and Juliet, Celestial in Shadowplay, Princess Aurora, Princess Florine and the Fairies of Charity and Joy in The Sleeping Beauty, the pas de trois, Polish Princess and a little swan in Swan Lake, a Goat in Sylvia, Swanilda in Coppelia (ballet) and a leading role in Theme and Variations.


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