Sierra Abelardo
Junior Principal
Joined The Sarasota Ballet in 2022 as Corps de Ballet, promoted to Coryphée in 2023, promoted to First Soloist in 2024, and promoted to Junior Principal in 2025.
Born: San Ramon, California
Training: Ellison Ballet Professional Training Program
Favorite quote: “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
Favorite role: In The Upper Room – Twyla Tharp
Favorite costume: Rubies
Fun fact: I have two cats!
Featured roles include: Ashton’s A Wedding Bouquet, Birthday Offering, Dante Sonata, Façade, Les Patineurs, Romeo and Juliet, Sinfonietta, Valses nobles et sentimentales; Balanchine’s Divertimento No.15, Emeralds, Rubies, Serenade, The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations, Western Symphony, Who Cares?; Bintley’s The Spider’s Feast; Bond’s Excursions; Graziano’s Amorosa, In A State of Weightlessness, Schubert Variations, Sonatina; Kobborg’s La Sylphide, Napoli Act III, Salute; Lang’s A Time of Beauty, Lyric Pieces, Shades of Spring; Liang’s The Art of War; MacMillan’s Danses Concertantes, Las Hermanas; Petipa’s The Sleeping Beauty Act III Blue Bird Pas de Deux; Taylor’s Company B; Tharp’s In The Upper Room; Wheeldon’s The American; Wright’s Giselle