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Acrobat, Tight Wire Dancer

By Dominique Jando

Born in Hanover, Germany, Sarah Schwarz is the daughter of a pastor who had created a youth circus, Giovanni’s Children Circus, to give kids an occupation during their vacations. Thus, for ten years, Sarah and her sibling spent their vacations training in circus arts, and performing on tour with the circus. Circus quickly became Sarah’s true passion.

After graduating from High School, Sarah went to Paris and enrolled into Annie Fratellini’s Ecole Nationale de Cirque (today’s Académie Fratellini), where she got her professional training, and specialized in tight wireA tight, light metallic cable, placed between two platforms not very far from the ground, on which a wire dancer perform dance steps, and acrobatic exercises such as somersaults. (Also: Low Wire). She subsequently went to work at Cirque Joseph Bouglione, at the all-female, avant-garde Cirque de Barbarie, at Circo da Madrugada in Brazil, Circus Roncalli in Germany, and Berlin’s WinterGarten variete, among other venues.

Between engagements, Sarah also modeled for print advertising, and she returned occasionally to the Fratellini School to teach tight wireA tight, light metallic cable, placed between two platforms not very far from the ground, on which a wire dancer perform dance steps, and acrobatic exercises such as somersaults. (Also: Low Wire) to a new generation of circus performers. From 2006-2009 she went to the United States, where she became a resident member of the Big Apple Circus’s company. Beside her own tight wireA tight, light metallic cable, placed between two platforms not very far from the ground, on which a wire dancer perform dance steps, and acrobatic exercises such as somersaults. (Also: Low Wire) act, she performed there in a variety of other acts, including an acrobatic adagioAcrobatic act, generally involving a man and a woman, presented in a slow or romantic mood. with Virgile Peyramaure and Andrey Mantchev.

Sarah returned to Europe at the end of the Big Apple Circus’s 2008-2009 season. She has since appeared in the Giffords Circus production of Yasmine, a circus musical about and starring fellow Big Apple Circus alumna, Yasmine Smart, which toured England during the Summer of 2010.

See Also

• Video: Sarah Schwarz, Tight Wire, in the Big Apple Circus production of Play On! (2008)

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