about

Sarah Klok (she/they) is a professional dancer, choreographer, and educator currently based in Central New York. She has just completed her second season as a Company Artist and Marketing Associate with Syracuse City Ballet, and is also the Ballet Mistress for Dominique’s Dance Creations, on faculty with Ballet Arts of Central New York, and an adjudicator for East Coast Elite Dance Challenge. 

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Originally from Minnesota, Sarah began her 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, she 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 her 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. She joined Syracuse City Ballet in July of 2024 and has been with them for two seasons, performing featured roles in both classical and contemporary programs such as The Nutcracker, Prologue, and Our Voices.

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Sarah’s interest in choreography started 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, she was invited to join A Red Cow Productions’ Sister Diane film project as a collaborating choreographer and featured performer. 

 

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. Her 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 further expanded her craft and taken on professional choreographic opportunities. Her choreographic work seeks to utilize everyday concepts and infuse them into movement, with much of her work based around her sense of interpersonal relationships and interactions as a queer artist. In November of 2023, she created moments before for the Prix de Lausanne Young Creation Award, centered on 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 her 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. She was honored to have her work Primary Colors open the program at Inspiration Hall and later be brought to Le Moyne 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 professional 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.

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Sarah's newest endeavors have involved returning to her roots in the competitive dance sphere. She joined East Coast Elite Dance Challenge as an adjudicator in 2025, and will be with them for nationals this July as a workshop instructor for their first ever ballet offerings! She is also on faculty with Ballet Arts of Central New York and has been brought into studios across New York as a guest instructor, teaching ballet with an emphasis on the application of classical technique to contemporary movement. Her choreography for Ballet Arts has been brought to Universal Ballet Competition, where her work ‘As It Rains’ earned second placement at their Manchester, NH Semi-Finals in 2026. Most recently, she has taken on the role of Ballet Mistress for Dominique’s Dance Creations. Sarah cannot wait to continue bringing dance to the next generation of artists!