Sarah Cincotta-Yan ’01

Sarah Cincotta-Yan is a dance professional with over 20 years of teaching and leadership experience. She graduated with honors from the Baltimore School for the Arts with a major in Ballet and Modern dance in 2001. At the age of 16, Sarah trained with the San Francisco Ballet School as a year-round student on a merit scholarship. She also attended American Ballet Theater, School of Hartford Ballet, and the North Carolina School for the Arts. Sarah danced as a soloist with Ballet Theater of Maryland for three seasons. After enduring a tragic ankle injury during her professional career, she underwent successful ankle reconstruction in 2005. For eight years, Sarah was the owner and director of Daycare Dance Institute, a program dedicated to early childhood dance education. In 2009, she toured with Bravo National Dance and Talent competition as an adjudicator. Currently, Sarah is a dance instructor and choreographer at The Moving Company Dance Center and the John Carroll Preparatory College and Academy. She continues to further her craft by attending national dance and teacher conventions to learn from leading choreographers, dancers, teachers and performing artists. Sarah and her husband Chi currently live in Carroll County, MD where they raise their three young sons Henry, Walter, and Stanley.