Sarah Branch

Sarah Branch is from Vancouver, Canada. She graduated in 2016 from Canada’s National Ballet School. She joined the Dresden Semperoper Ballet under Aaron Watkin’s direction as an apprentice for the 2016/17 season. She then danced with the Opera Nova Bydgoszcz in Poland for two seasons, first as corps de ballet and then as coryphée before returning to Canada for one year to freelance, guesting with the National Ballet of Canada. In 2020, she joined the Vienna Staatsballet- Volksoper as corps de ballet under the direction of Martin Schläpfer. She danced there for three years, performing lead roles in the Vienna Volksoper as well as classical and modern works on the Vienna Staatsoper stage. She joined Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 2023.

• Tinkerbell and Wendy in Vesna Orlic’s Peter Pan
• The Rabbit in Andrey Kaydanovskiy’s Nutcracker
• Cinderella in Iwona Runowska’s Cinderella
• Alpha Woman in Robert Bondara’s The Captive Mind
• Juliet’s Friends and Mandolin Dance in Paul Chalmer’s Romeo and Juliet
• Lead Woman in Tessa Magda’s Fall no Further
• Martin Schläpfer’s Deutches Requiem
• Gabriele Aime’s Like a Dog with Two Tails
• Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake
• Elena Tschernischova’s Giselle
• Martin Schläpfer’s Mahler
• Taina Ferreira-Luiz’s Tight
• Martin Schläpfer’s Sinfonie 15
• Kenneth Macmillan’s Manon
• Aaron Watkin’s Don Quixote
• George Balanchine’s Symphony in C
• Aaron Watkin’s Nutcracker
• Martin Schläpfer’s Die Jahreszeiten
• Aaron Watkin’s Swan Lake
• George Balanchine’s Chaconne
• James Kudelka’s Nutcracker
• Operas and musicals including: Die Fledermaus, The Wizard of Oz, The Lady in the Dark, Die Lustige Witwe, Orpheus in der Unterwelt, My Fair Lady, Die Letzte Verschworung, Land des Lächlens, Grafin Mariza, and Rigoletto

• Erik Bruhn Memorial Award (2016)
• Peter Dwyer Award (2016)