Sarah grew up dancing. She performed for many years as a contemporary dancer based in NYC before participation in a 2001 workshop in Montréal introduced her to the province of Québec, the phenomenal Canadian city and the profound circus cultural knowledge in training and performance to be found there. And injury brought her to discover aerial arts, and Canadian and international performance opportunities followed. She discovered her passion for teaching and learning thanks to circus. She currently works as the Director of Higher Education at the École de cirque de Québec in Québec City. She worked for 14 years at the École nationale de cirque in Montréal, coaching aerial disciplines in their college program, while simultaneously working with artists to create and develop their acts in projects for Montréal-based companies (Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Éloize, 7 Fingers) or as a creative-choreographic mentor for independent circus artists in Canada. She teaches or has taught aerial technique, composition, creative process and flexibility classes at aerial dance festivals organized by Gravity & Levity (UK), Fidget Feet (Ireland), Cie Drapés Aériens (France) and Frequent Flyers (USA). She is completing her MA at Concordia University in Montréal which focuses on teaching practices which may support career sustainability in circus artists. She has had the opportunity to speak about aerial teaching on various podcasts (360 with Stacy Clark, Aerial Evolution, the Artist Athlete) as well as on panel discussions about risk and pedagogy for the Montreal Working Group on Circus Research and Radio-Canada. She has worked as a consultant on professional training and as a teacher for En Piste, the national circus arts network in Canada. Sarah remains in awe of the creative process in its aerial permutations; as reflected in the myriad of innovative, personal solutions found by students to technical and compositional problems. She loves the body’s capacity to communicate our shared humanity in the air and on the ground. And she really likes to ride her bicycle.