about me

Sarah Klok (she/they) is a movement artist and choreographer currently in her second season as a Company Artist and Marketing Coordinator with Syracuse City Ballet. She is also an adjudicator for East Coast Elite Dance Challenge and on faculty with Ballet Arts of CNY and Star Performance Dance Center.

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Originally from Minnesota, Sarah began their formal training at Larkin Dance Studio. She joined Concept Pavielle’s Ballet Select program to further immerse herself in classical ballet, which had quickly drawn her focus. At sixteen, Sarah joined Ballet Co.Laboratory as a student – and, four months later, was invited to join their professional company as a Trainee. As a Trainee, they performed in a variety of classical and contemporary repertoire, most notably originating the roles of Max’s Mother in Hannah Mackenzie-Margulies’ The Wild Rumpus and The Cow Jumping Over the Moon in Genevieve Waterbury’s Lunar Lullaby. Sarah then relocated to NYC and completed their first year in the Alvin Ailey / Fordham University BFA program, in addition to joining Pangea Dance Collective as a Company Artist in March of 2024.

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Sarah’s interest in choreography sparked young. During her time at Larkin, she began choreographing contemporary solos that were performed on stages nationally at The Dance Awards. Saturn, Sarah’s first contemporary ballet composition, was presented at Youth America Grand Prix with Ballet Co.Laboratory in 2022. In July of the same year, they were invited to join A Red Cow Productions’ Sister Diane film project as a collaborating choreographer and featured performer. 

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Ballet Co.Laboratory also opened the door for Sarah to really start creating beyond the competitive stage. During the 2022/2023 season, she was named their first Choreographic Mentorship Student. Here, she created a new work for the Performance Ensemble – entitled Find Me – under the mentorship of director Genevieve Waterbury. Their second work for Ballet Co.Laboratory, Courante, was presented as part of the Senior Showcase. Courante has since been adapted into a dance film that premiered in the Finding Compassion Choreography Showcase in June of 2024!

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In recent years, Sarah has expanded their craft beyond traditional stage presentations. Her recent choreographic work seeks to utilize everyday concepts and infuse them into movement, with much of their work based around the queer experience and their sense of interpersonal relationships and interactions as a queer artist. In November 2023, she created moments before for the Prix de Lausanne Young Creation Award, based around the duality of holding onto memory while accepting change with an open mind - in October of 2024, the solo was adapted into a 15-minute contemporary ballet of the same name for Pangea Dance Collective's Pangea: Unearthed program. Sarah also presented their first work in dance film, out / side / in, in May of 2024, which examines the historical aspect of gender expression and the power dynamics at play in individual presentation. In the spring of 2025, she was commissioned to create a 30-minute work for Syracuse City Ballet's Our Voices - Women Choreographers. They were honored to have their work Primary Colors open the program at Inspiration Hall and later be brought to LeMoyne College for a lecture/demonstration series on the choreographic process, where Sarah had the opportunity to give a lecture on her personal creative process in their Dance Department's Choreography Class. Sarah's most recent work was commissioned as part of Albany Berkshire Ballet's Project & Performance: Voices program, a collaboration between SCB, ABB, the Berkshire Music School, BeatNest, and Choices Mentoring Initiative. Getting to work with ABB artistic leadership, Choices Mentoring Initiative's student poets, and BeatNest composers to create a new piece, Echoes of Berkshire Mall, entirely from scratch was an incredibly fulfilling experience!