About Sara

Sara is now resident in the City of Circus, Montreal, where she continues to teach, train and perform while attending McGill University.  It is quite a change from her last gig, performing  in southern Turkey with FUNK – an aerial-circus-variety show performed on a unique truck-based mobile stage.   She recently completed an extended stint in Cape Town, South Africa where she performed, trained and taught with The Zip Zap Circus School for Social Change  – an extraordinary group of people dedicated to changing the world through circus performance. She has been a passionate aerial performer since she began circus training at Independent Lake Camp in Pennsylvania at age seven.  She has worked on aerial fabric (silk, scarf, tissu), lyra (hoop, cerceau), net, Spanish web, static, swinging and flying trapeze, and cloud swing.  A co-founder with Ann Behrends of the AirBorne! DC aerial performance cooperative, she also performed for six years with Air Dance Bernasconi. A Finalist in The Washington Post's Music and Dance Scholarship Awards, she is a graduate of Cirque du Soleil's Cirque du Monde Social Circus Training of Trainers Program, and has also trained in Chile at the Circo del Mundo circus school.  Currently teaching at Trapezium in Montreal, She has worked as part of the flying trapeze facilitator team with Peter Gold's Trapeze Experience, as well as teaching static and flying trapeze at STREB (NY) and Trapeze School of NY (Washington, DC).  Her teachers have included Jayne Bernasconi, Laurence Estève, Richie Gaona, Tito Gaona, Peter Gold, Ginger Griep, Elsie and Serenity Smith, Jackie Tan, and Brent Van Rensburg.  She grew up in Washington, DC where she graduated from Edmund Burke School.