DANCE

Joined Boston Ballet II in 2016 • Boston Ballet in 2017

Dancing is the truest form of empathy, passion, and selflessness. As artists we not only feel for ourselves, but for everyone in the audience

SAGE HUMPHRIES - Artist

Joining Boston Ballet

Sage Joined Boston Ballet’s Second Company and in 2017, was promoted to Artist in the main company. Her repertoire with Boston Ballet includes: Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet (Juliet’s Bridesmaids, Lady Montague), Leeshka’s Le Corsaire (Slave Girl), William Forsythe’s Artifact, Blake Works, and Pas Parts, Petipe’s Sleeping Beauty (Aurora’s Friend), Balanchine’s Violin Concerto (Tall Girl), Balanchine’s Chaconne, Bourninville’s La Sylphide (Anna), Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker (Arabian, Spanish, Pastoral),

** In 2018 Sage made her choreographic debut through Boston Ballet’s ChoreograHER program. She would continue to choreograph for the Boston Calling music festival in 2019, and ChoreograpHER again in 2019.

Dance Background

Sage Humphries has trained at some of the best ballet schools in the United states and has worked with some of the most iconic choreographers and Directors in Dance.

Sage started her young dance career at the age of 4, at Orange County Dance Center in California. Coached by Michael & Kristine Houston, and Terri & Anthony Sellars, she grew as a young dancer and participated in ballet competitions and shows such as The Youth America Grand Prix and the Nutcracker. At the age of 12, she attended the School of American Ballet Summer Course in New York, training in Balanchine. She continued her training at SAB for three consecutive summers and was asked to stay for the winter term.

At the age of 14, Humphries went to train under Dmitri Kulev in Orange County. Under Kulev, she studied the Russian Vaganova Method and received full merit scholarships to Semperoper Ballet, Ballet Munich, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and Ballet West.
In 2015, Sage won the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix Award and spent the summer at American ballet Theatre in New York on full scholarship. After her time at ABT, Humphries went to train extensively under Cuban Director, Ariel Serrano, and is one of the few people to be coached privately by Cuban National Ballet School Director Ramona De Saa.

ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE AND REPERTOIRE:

Orange County Ballet Theater: George Balanchine, Who Cares? (Turning Girl), Walpurgisnacht (Corps de Ballet); Carreño Dance Festival: Giselle (Willie Soloist), The Sleeping Beauty (Fairy of the Crystal Fountain); ABT Summer: George Balanchine, Theme and Variations (Soloist); Stars of Today Meet Stars of Tomorrow YAGP Gala: Marius Petipa, Le Corsaire (Odalisque)

Training