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Occupation
  
Ballet dancer

Spouse(s)
  
Patrick Thornberry


Parent(s)
  
Kathleen and John Lamb

Name
  
Sarah Lamb

Sarah Lamb

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Sarah Lamb (born 1980) is an American principal ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet, London, England.

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Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she began training with Madame Tatiana Legat, at the Boston Ballet School aged 13. She was awarded a Gold Medal in 1998 by U.S. President Bill Clinton after being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. With Legat's coaching she won three silver medals in 1999 at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Japan, the Sixth NY IBC in 2000, and the USA IBC in 2002.

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She joined Boston Ballet in 1998, was promoted to soloist in 2001 and principal in 2003. She joined The Royal Ballet in August 2004 as a first soloist and was promoted to principal in 2006.

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Biography

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The second of three children, all girls, born to Kathleen and John Lamb, Sarah grew up in Boston and Brookline. She started dancing almost as soon as she could walk. Before she was ten years old, she was training in the Boston Ballet School and chosen to star in the annual major professional production of The Nutcracker as Clara. Years later, she starred in the adult roles with other young Claras, on the same stage. She married fellow dancer Patrick Thornberry in 2005 and they reside in London.

Career and repertory

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Sylphide (La Sylphide), Marie Larisch (Mayerling), Tatiana and Olga (Onegin), Thaïs pas de deux, Masha (Winter Dreams), Voluntaries, Polyphonia, The Grey Area, Afternoon of a Faun, Chroma, Infra, Tanglewood, Sylvia, Stop Time Rag Girl (Elite Syncopations), white girl and blue girl (Les Patineurs), Fin du Jour, Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), Princess Belle Rose (The Prince of the Pagodas) and Human Seasons.

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  • Odette/Odile in Swan Lake
  • Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (by Rudi Van Dantzig)
  • Lise in La fille mal gardée
  • Gamzatti in La Bayadère
  • Olga in Eugene Onegin
  • Myrtha and Peasant Pas de deux in Giselle
  • Queen of the Dryads and Danseuse de Rue in Nureyev's Don Quixote
  • The Sugar Plum Fairy, Dew Drop Fairy and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker
  • Princess Aurora and Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty
  • In the Middle...Somewhat Elevated by Forsythe
  • La Fille Mal Gardee (2003, with guest artist Carlos Acosta)

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    References

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