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About Sara

Sara Rodriguez is an actor, dancer and singer with professional experience and training in musical theatre, classical and neo-classical ballet and contemporary dance as well as acting and voice. She is also a sought after teaching artist and social justice advocate.

Sara began her ballet training with Jennifer and Thomas Hanner (Ballet Austin, American Ballet Theatre) and Irina Louzganova (Bolshoi Ballet) in Southern New Jersey, spending summers at Ballet West in Salt Lake City, the Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia and the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a BFA in Ballet (Political Science minor) where she was a company member of Utah Ballet and studied under Jay Kim and Victoria Stocki-Kim (Universal Ballet), Maggie Wright Tesch (Ballet West) and Calvin Kitten (Joffrey Ballet, Ballet West).

Sara’s dance performance credits include: Russian demi soloist in George Balanchine’s Serenade and small swans in Swan Lake with Utah Ballet; Violente (Finger Fairy) and Little Red in Sleeping Beauty with New York State Ballet; and various ensemble roles with Tracie Stanfield’s SynthesisDANCE, Janice Rosario and Company and other contemporary and jazz choreographers in New York and across the country. She went on to work with Broadway Arts Community under the mentorship of Chryssie Whitehead and Alexis Carra to pursue her musical theatre and acting career.

Sara is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association.

Reels

DANCE REEL | Featuring choreography by Krystyna Resavy, Sara Rodriguez, Keith Reeves, Janice Rosario, Rachel Dolan

VOICE SAMPLE | Self tape of the last section of “Stars and the Moon” from Songs for a New World

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Utah Ballet in George Balanchine's Serenade
Utah Ballet in George Balanchine's Serenade
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