SARA KUZMINSKI grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey, and began her ballet training seriously as a freshman in high school under Gabriella Noa at the New Jersey School of Ballet in 2013. After two years, she moved to Pennsylvania to continue training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the late Marcia Dale Weary where she danced in numerous ballets including George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, Balancine’s Western Symphony, Cinderella, Coppelia, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. During this time Kuzminski attended summer programs including Houston Ballet, Ballet Masterclasses Prague, Ballet West, Ballet Workshop Estonia, and Ballet Summer School Gdynia. After continued private coaching with Laszlo Berdo, Kuzminski joined Ballet Chicago’s studio company under the direction of Daniel Duell in 2018 dancing in ballets such as Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco, Daniel Duell’s Hansel and Gretel, Ted Seymour’s LongLivingLines, as well as Arabian and Demi Flower in The Nutcracker. After two seasons, Kuzminski joined the Ruth Page Civic Ballet under the direction of Victor Alexander and Dolores Long in the fall of 2020. While dancing in ballets such as in Le Corsaire’s pas de trois and Timothy O’Donell’s Femme Célèbres, she also had the opportunity of dancing as a soloist in more contemporary pieces such as Nejla Yatkin’s Expanding Universe and Rigoberto Saura’s Pink Nights Never End. This year Kuzminski has had the pleasure of dancing the Woodland Fairy in Boca Ballet Theater’s production of The Sleeping Beauty and looks forward to revisiting the ballet in the winter at New York State Ballet. Kuzminski is super excited to be dancing with Salt Creek.