Sarah Poole

Sarah currently coaches at the École nationale de cirque in Montréal, where she teaches dance trapeze, rope, aerial fabric, fixed trapeze, duo trapeze and flexibility classes in the college and high school programmes. 

Trained initially in classical ballet, Sarah performed as a contemporary dancer with various small companies in New York City. 

She began her aerial training and performance work after moving to Montréal in 2003, performing in events organized by Cirque Éloize and Prodigium. 

She has taught workshops in aerial technique and aerial choreography while performing at the Aerial Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, the Aerial Dance Encounters in La Baule, France, the Irish Aerial Dance Festival in Dublin, and the Contemporary Circus Arts Festival of Toronto. 

She recently coached and developed the aerial bike act in Cirque du Soleil’s KURIOS.   

In 2008, she earned an intensive year-long advanced coaching certification, an AEC, specializing in aerial coaching from the École nationale de cirque.  

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