Biography
Sarah Kennedy at the Ballet for Young People Ballet Circus (2011)
Sarah Kennedy has been a ballet teacher in the New Haven, CT, area for more than ten years.
Receiving her ballet training at the San Francisco Ballet School, the Connecticut Ballet, and at George Washington University, with Jane Bonbright (where she also received a B.A. in fine arts), she then went on to study theater and opera. She has been a teacher at the Neighborhood Music School Pre-school and Toddler Program, NMS Dance and Audobon Arts programs, and a teacher and performer with the New Haven Ballet.
Sarah has taught classes at Ridge Road Elementary School in North Haven, and at Mishkan Isreal Nursery School, Cold Spring School, and for The Little Prince children's theater, as well as at her Erector Square studio!
With Ballet for Young People Sarah now offers child-oriented classes that nurture the spirit as well as dancing skills through enrichment programs, including the Ballet Discovery Series, and Ballet Seminar -of studio workshops about the great ballets, trips to the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, and The Nutcracker and Winter Carnival-Ballet Parties! Young dancers are invited to come together to create artwork connected to ballet, and in Her Children’s Ballet Theater, students are invited to give small performances (some inspired by the Angelina Ballerina books!). She and her students have adapted and performed The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Cinderella, Ballet Circus, Peter and the Wolf, The Magic Flute... and have collaborated in performance with Hillhouse Opera Company, and the Classical Contemporary Ballet Theater.
Sarah enjoys singing and performing in opera and theater productions, she practices Smooth and Latin dance at Dance With Me USA, and Ballroom Dancin' Fools, and is a certified level one Essentrics (Esmonde Technique) instructor.
Come be part of our family!
Receiving her ballet training at the San Francisco Ballet School, the Connecticut Ballet, and at George Washington University, with Jane Bonbright (where she also received a B.A. in fine arts), she then went on to study theater and opera. She has been a teacher at the Neighborhood Music School Pre-school and Toddler Program, NMS Dance and Audobon Arts programs, and a teacher and performer with the New Haven Ballet.
Sarah has taught classes at Ridge Road Elementary School in North Haven, and at Mishkan Isreal Nursery School, Cold Spring School, and for The Little Prince children's theater, as well as at her Erector Square studio!
With Ballet for Young People Sarah now offers child-oriented classes that nurture the spirit as well as dancing skills through enrichment programs, including the Ballet Discovery Series, and Ballet Seminar -of studio workshops about the great ballets, trips to the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, and The Nutcracker and Winter Carnival-Ballet Parties! Young dancers are invited to come together to create artwork connected to ballet, and in Her Children’s Ballet Theater, students are invited to give small performances (some inspired by the Angelina Ballerina books!). She and her students have adapted and performed The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Cinderella, Ballet Circus, Peter and the Wolf, The Magic Flute... and have collaborated in performance with Hillhouse Opera Company, and the Classical Contemporary Ballet Theater.
Sarah enjoys singing and performing in opera and theater productions, she practices Smooth and Latin dance at Dance With Me USA, and Ballroom Dancin' Fools, and is a certified level one Essentrics (Esmonde Technique) instructor.
Come be part of our family!