Talk:Sarah Van Patten
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editSarah Van Patten is a principal dancer (the highest rank) in one of the major ballet companies in the United States. There are fewer than 100 female principal dancers at this level in the US. She was the youngest corps member in the history of the Royal Danish Ballet's 200-year history and winner of the Danish New Talent Prize for 2000. Wikipedia has a section for ballet dancers' biographies, which is where Sarah's bio belongs.
References
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In a review of Romeo & Juliet, Dance Critic Rachel Howard states, “Van Patten was not afraid to look immature, even goofy. Her giggles with her girlfriends were not demure twitters but silly chest-heaving laughs. When she first met Romeo in the ballroom and pulled her hand away from his, teasing, you could see how ill-prepared this sheltered jokester was for a love of such intensity. In the balcony scene, she made her sudden series of pique arabesque look slightly awkward, like the tottering steps of a newborn foal. In the marriage scene, when she restrained herself from clinging to Romeo and then rushed at him again, her inability to control herself was so childlike that she actually provoked a big laugh from the audience. Van Patten is a thoroughly naturalistic actress.” http://rachelhoward.com/archives/2005/05/van_pattens_jul.php
Renee Renouf, of Ballet.co magazine calls Sarah, “a special dramatic force.” http://www.ballet.co.uk/magazines/yr_07/apr07/rr_rev_sfb3_0307.htm
Alan Ulrich of The Voice of Dance observed in a review of Apollo that, “I have never seen the Calliope solo dispatched with the character details brought to it by Sarah Van Patten” http://www.voiceofdance.org/Insights/features.test.cfm?LinkID=31500000000000208
Interview with Sarah as one of San Francisco Ballet’s “Up and Coming Stars” Pointe Magazine, October / November 2006. pp. 38-44.
Reference to her Romeo & Juliet in Copenhagen (in Danish) http://www.old.kglteater.dk/dkt2002/omteatret/regnskab/2000/beretning/2/teater.html