Sarah Lamb was born in Boston and trained with Madame Tatiana Nicolaevna Legat at the Boston Ballet School. She was awarded a Gold Medal by President Bill Clinton when she was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and performed Sleeping Beauty Act III at the Kennedy Centre in 1998. Coached by Tatiana Nicolaevna, she went on to win silver medals at the International Ballet Competition in Nagoya, Japan 1999, and the USA IBC in 2002. She was awarded the highest medal at the NYC IBC in 2000. She joined Boston Ballet in 1998, becoming a principal dancer in 2003. In 2004 she joined the Royal Ballet as a first soloist and was promoted to principal after eighteen months.
She has danced all over the world in ballets created on her by Sir Wayne McGregor (Chroma, Limen, Raven Girl, Carbon Life, Multiverse, Tetractys, Woolf Works, Yugen and Beatrice in Dante). The role of Perdita in The Winter’s Tale was created on her by Christopher Wheeldon. She has performed all the major roles of the ballet repertoire, as well as the masterpieces of Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth McMillan, her performances of Juliet, Manon and Mayerling were filmed.
She has performed at the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo in 2015, 2018 and 2024, and is known by audiences internationally. In 2023 she received the Positano Award for Best Female Dancer. In 2025 her twentieth anniversary with the Royal Ballet was celebrated onstage following her performance of Cinderella with Steven McRae. In August of 2025 she co-produced “Ballet Supreme” a collaboration between starts of the Paris Opera and Royal Ballet presented by Tokyo Ballet. She continues her career in London as well as a guest artist and teacher around the world.