The Dancers
Sara Garbowski
For the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Photo credit: Stephen A'Court. COPYRIGHT ©Stephen A'Court
In 2017, her first year with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Sara Garbowski performed in Roland Petit’s Carmen and L’Arlésienne, Three by Ekman and Romeo and Juliet.
In March 2018 she made her debut as Ada in The Piano: the ballet. She performed in three out of four works in Dancing with Mozart and also in Strength & Grace and performed the iconic role of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Dewdrop in Val Caniparoli’s The Nutcracker.
Originally from Canada, Sara is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto where she won the Peter Dwyer Award before joining the National Ballet of Canada.
In 2010 Sara joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders and was promoted to Demi Soloist in 2013. Her repertoire includes My One and Only in Balanchine’s Who Cares?, Solo Shade in Cynthia Harvey’s La Bayadère, The Kingdom of the Shades; Red Fairy and Lead Jewel in Marcia Haydée’s The Sleeping Beauty; White Couple in Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land; and First Pas de Deux in Wayne McGregor’s Infra, as well as notable roles in Forsythe’s In the Middle Somewhat Elevated and Approximate Sonata. In December 2016, Sara performed the pas de deux I Fall for You by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at the Harvard Club of Belgium’s award ceremony.
