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| Sarah Van Patten in Tomasson’s Giselle. Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB |
Sarah Van Patten is a great dramatic dance actress. She plunges into roles, bringing nuance and depth to her characters, using lush phrasing to draw out the emotion of the music. And when she pulls off one of her seemingly supernatural balances, you realize the many layers of talent she brings to the stage.
Van Patten’s star rose swiftly after she joined Royal Danish Ballet as a teenage apprentice. Only months into her contract, she was cast as the lead in John Neumeier’s Romeo and Juliet and soon after was awarded Denmark’s New Talent Prize. But the Boston native was eager to return to the U.S., and at 17 she accepted Helgi Tomasson’s offer to join San Francisco Ballet as a soloist. A principal at SFB since 2007, she’s performed lead roles in works by Balanchine, Robbins, Wheeldon, Tomasson, and Possokhov. In January she debuted as the lead in Tomasson’s Giselle.
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