Career
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 United States. President Bill Clinton after being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. 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.
The second of three children, all girls, born to Kathleen and John Lamb, Sarah grew up in Boston and Brooklyn. 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.
Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Princess Aurora and Princess Florine (The Sleeping Beauty), Lise (Louisiana fille mal gardée), Sylphide (Louisiana Sylphide), Sugar Plum Fairy, (The Nutcracker), Marie Larisch (Mayerling), Tatiana and Olga (Onegin), Thaïs pas de deux, Masha (Winter Dreams), In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, 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), Finance, Financial du Jour, Alice (Alice"s Adventures in Wonderland), Princess Belle Rose (The Prince of the Pagodas) and Human Seasons.
