SARA KNIGHT

Founder and Artistic Director 

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Sara Knight is a graduate of England's Royal Ballet School, an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance ( A.R.A.D.), graduate of the Royal Ballet School Teacher's Training Course ( R.B.S. Dip. TTC.) and the first British graduate of Russia's Vaganova (Kirov) Ballet Academy. Sara is a recipient of the Royal Ballet School Award for Excellence personally awarded by Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet. 

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Sara went on to become a soloist with the Leningrad State Ballet Theatre and the Russian Ballet of St. Petersburg. In Western Europe, she danced with England's Northern Ballet Theatre, Swansea’s Ballet Russe, and was a principal dancer with the European Ballet of London. In the USA, Sara has guested with Boston Ballet and as a principal dancer with Configuration Dance and Rebecca Rice Dance Company.

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Sara has been invited to teach worldwide including Boston Ballet Company, Boston Ballet School, Tulsa Ballet Center for Dance Education, Cincinnati Ballet School, Laban Centre London, Northern Ballet Theatre of England, Arts Educational School of the UK, Boston Conservatory, The International Festival of France and most recently Masters of Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Theatre and English National Ballet School, both in London.  Sara has also served as Ballet Mistress for both London's Central School of Ballet and Ellison Ballet of NYC.  She was the Artistic Director for the Ballet School of Stamford as well as the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Greenwich Ballet Academy.

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In September 2010, Sara founded SLK Ballet School "A school for gifted dancers to prepare for a career as a professional dancer.”  In 2017 she founded her company Chevalier Ballet, which tours around the tristate area and beyond bringing dance to small communities who might not get the chance to see ballet/dance. And, in 2021 she founded CBC Chevalier Ballet Conservatory, whose mission is to give young graduate dancers the opportunity to be part of a professional touring company, while working with the professional dancers within Chevalier Ballet company. 

 

Sara is very involved in outreach and conducts workshops in schools and hospitals on a regular basis. She continues to teach worldwide.

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Photography by Matthew Karas