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tiny dancer i
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tiny dancer iv
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brandon boyd x brian bowen smith x sarah hay

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tiny dancer ii
brandon boyd x brian bowen smith x sarah hay

$344

tiny dancer - full set
brandon boyd x brian bowen smith x sarah hay

$1,374

sarah hay

actress / ballerina / artist 

Sarah Hay is an American actress and former prima ballerina. She is best known for her role as Claire Robbins in the Starz mini-series Flesh and Bone, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, a Satellite Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award.

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Sarah Hay was brought up in Princeton, New Jersey and New York City, alongside her older brother and sister. Her grandmother was an art dealer in New York City, and her grandfather is a member of the New York Philharmonic. Hay's parents are both psychologists. She began attending dance classes at the age of three and later attended the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of Ballet at the American Ballet Theatre. She later explained that while she was popular at normal school, at the ballet school she was considered to be a "loser" because she wasn't from a wealthy background. She described herself as a "troublemaker" during her childhood, and only decided to pursue ballet professionally when she was a teenager. 

Once she decided to become a professional ballet dancer, she sacrificed other pursuits, saying in a 2015 interview with the New York Post that she "had a few relationships fall apart because of it." While others have described her as "workaholic," she prefers "motivated." During her early dancing career, she discovered that certain teachers found her body type off putting, with one handing her a sports bra as she came off stage in the middle of a production, while others suggested that she should undergo breast reduction surgery. She added that she was always considered to be the "heavy girl" in American-based companies. At the age of 22, she moved to Germany to join the Dresden based Semperoper ballet. As a child Sarah was enrolled at School of American Ballet. 

Sarah made her acting debut in 1997 when she was cast as Stephanie in You're Invited to Mary-Kate and Ashley's Ballet Party, starring Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. She made her film debut in 2010 as a dancer in Black Swan, but she didn't consider herself to have made an acting appearance until she was cast in the Starz mini-series Flesh and Bone. Executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett and her team had seen more than a thousand ballet dancers for the main role of Claire Robbins, and the choreographer for the series, Ethan Stiefel, had begun requesting ballet footage via email from more dancers. After returning footage, Hay was invited to New York for an audition and was given the part an hour later.

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