Sarah is a professional aerialist based out of the West Coast (Oregon & California) and Hawai'i (The Big Island & Maui). Her strength-based background began with rock climbing, yoga, team sports & pulling lines on catamarans. So how does someone with 0 dance training or gymnastic back ground get into aerial? That's a great question. Her unique journey began in 2013 she witnessed an awe-inspiring performance at the 2012 Burning Man festival. Within a few years of tenacious training, she was on a professional path with fueled by passion.  

 

Sarah moved from the Big Island of Hawai'i to Portland, OR. in 2019 to complete a training program with A-WOL Dance Collective & to ultimately pursue a performance and teaching career not very accessible on a rural island. She specializes in silks, lyra, duo lyra, cube, rope & dance trapeze. In more intimate realms, she is the the Founder of Explore Aerial Retreat and runs week long retreats in inspiring locations around the world that focus on aerial technique and flow, multiple types of yoga, and healing through self reflection and re-inspiring one's life. 

 

As a performer, her clients range from corporate to creative. A career highlight of hers is being selected as one of the few troupes / soloists commissioned to perform at the man at the 2019 Burning Man Festival, Metamorphoses - which truly brought her journey from starry-eyed patron to a main stage performer full circle, and with a joyful tear in her eye. No matter what, she brings a powerful and memorable presence to all of her audiences. She infuses her work with a zest for musicality & storytelling, and an abundance of strength that creates a mesmerizing juxtaposition of effortless intentionality. The stage is a place she goes to be reborn and share her passion for this creative vessel of and athleticism.

 

When she isn't  drilling a new skill or creating a new act, she teaches lessons out of many spaces in the Portland Metro area, her native state California, Maui or Mexico. She considers herself a true "Snowbird," and is the most happy while traveling to teach various workshops or perform in sunny locations!

 

While Sarah has big dreams for the future of merging her passion of psychology, social work and healing with aerial arts, she also has a goal to raise the value of the circus & performance arts for the community to thrive especially after the pandemic.

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Interested in performance, lessons or retreats? Get touch with Sarah via the contact form below!