Wildwood Dance is so thrilled to welcome Mr. Adam Sage to our guest facutly!  Adam has over 20years performing professionally, teaching, choreographing, and has had many years in running programs for multiple schools.  WDA is so happy to be able to share in his expertise and a great partnership with Missouri Ballet Theatre.  Mr. Sage currently teaches Ballet III/IV on Thursdays. We look forward to the years ahead! Welcome to the Wildwood Dance & Arts family.

Adam Sage is the Artistic Director of the Missouri Ballet Theatre company.  He has enjoyed a three-decade performing, teaching, coaching and choreographic career that spanned four continents. Mr. Sage most recently served as Artistic Director of Virginia School of the Arts after directing the School of Nashville Ballet for more than seven years, where he also served as Ballet Master and Company Teacher. He began his twenty years on stage at the age of seventeen with the California Ballet in his hometown of San Diego, before moving on to dance with Ballet West, Ballet Memphis and as Guest Artist with Nashville Ballet.  Internationally, he has danced with such companies as Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Philippines, N.A.P.A.C. Dance Company and he National Dance Company of Bophuthatswana in South Africa. Mr. Sage has performed principal roles in all the great classics, including Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Giselle, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Coppelia, La Bayadere, and Cinderella, and in works by dance luminaries such as John Cranko, Kenneth McMillan, George Balanchine, Ninnette de Valois and Frederick Ashton.  He has had the honor of dancing at some of the most prestigious theatres in the world including the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., The Hong Kong Cultural Center and in command performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Mr. Sage has coached dancers who have participated in the prestigious “Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition” in Switzerland as well as the “American Ballet Competition” in Miami, for which he served on the jury panel for the 2007 and 2008 competition.  He was inducted into the “Who’s who among America’s Teachers” in 2005 and 2006 and the “National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teachers” in 2006 for his exemplary teaching and dedication to the youth of America.

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