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Shine on: ABT's Sarah Lane puts body and soul into her roles.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shine on: ABT's Sarah Lane puts body and soul into her roles.(American Ballet Theater)(Brief biography)(Cover story)

Article Excerpt
Waltzing with Herman Cornejo to the song "Strangers in the Night," Sarah Lane shows off a sleek elegance that is tinged with a refreshing sweetness. But several minutes later into the rehearsal of Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite, she gives as good as she gets, dancing the contentious duet to "That's Life"--accidentally kicking Cornejo in the stomach. Even though she's the smallest woman in American Ballet Theatre (5'2" tops), it's best not to underestimate her. She's built like a sparrow, but she has the will of an eagle.

Lane joined the corps in 2004 after eight months in the ABT Studio Company. Since then, she has jumped out of the pack to stake her claim on a broad range of roles: the sprightly Amour in Don Quixote, the do-or-die ballerina role in Theme and Variations, a lead in Tharp's In the Upper Room, and even the doomed Anne Boleyn in Christopher Wheeldon's VIII. Plus she was chosen by Payless recently to represent their new ABT shoe line.

"Sarah, in that delicate frame, can display a robustness in her approach, and a 'feeling' for dancing that can radiate," says ABT artistic director Kevin McKenzie.

Whether riding a legato musical line with ease or attacking an allegro passage with ferocity, Lane projects her stage persona in a way that only natural-born performers can. And even if you can't see her captivating dark eyes from...

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