Sarah Thompson

Sarah Thompson began dancing under Yvonne Britain at the age of five. She was offered a place in Queensland Ballet’s Professional Year following two years of full-time dance training at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence, where she received the Charles Lisner Memorial Scholarship. While still a student of the School, she was engaged by Queensland Ballet as a dancer for the 2007 season of The Nutcracker. In her first year in the Professional Year program, she performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, International Gala 2008, The Little Mermaid, and Swan Lake, as well as the regional Queensland tour of The Amazing Magician.

She was the recipient of the 2008 Patricia MacDonald Bursary. Sarah was taken into Queensland Ballet as a Trainee Dancer in January, 2010 and promoted to full Company Dancer in 2011. Her most recent role was performing the role of Princess in The Little Mermaid in the Brisbane season and China tour in 2011.