Sahsha Amaut
Company Artist

Sahsha is originally from West Chester, PA. where she began her training with Anastasia Babayeva and Denis Gronostayskiy, both dancers at the Bolshoi Ballet. After three years of training in her hometown, Sahsha enrolled in the pre-professional program at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the teachings and syllabus developed by the late Marcia Dale Weary. Sahsha began her professional career as a trainee with the American Repertory Ballet of Princeton, New Jersey. She danced in Snowflakes, Flowers and Marzipan in The Nutcracker and as a Peasant and a Willi in Giselle. In 2020, Sahsha traveled to Paris to attend the Paris Marais Dance School under the direction of Maggie Boogaart and Ghislain DeCompreignac. There, she had the opportunity to study Graham, Horton, Limon, and Cunningham techniques and styles such as Contact Improvisation. She also attended workshops with choreographers Stephen Delattre, Sylvere Lamotte and Robert Swinston. Sahsha then joined Springfield Ballet Company, where she performed as a company artist. In the second act of Adam Sage’s Little Mermaid she was featured in a divertissement solo. In Springfield's The Nutcracker, Sahsha was featured as the Ballerina Doll. The following year she joined Ballet Quad Cities dancing in Domingo Rubio’s Oblivion and dancing Snow White in Courtney Lyon’s Snow White. Sahsha is excited to start her first season with Central Illinois Ballet!