BIO

Naomi Sawyer is a physical therapist at Northeast Rehab Hospital, a Certified Vestibular Therapist, a ballet instructor and principal dancer for Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT), and has worked as a per-diem therapist for the Boston Ballet. Naomi has served her community working primarily in outpatient neuro and vestibular rehab over the past twenty-five years. As a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science and the Performing Arts Medicine Association, she continues to explore the human body’s capacities for healing and growth through learning and movement. She provides screenings, treatments, and classes on injury prevention, optimization, and conditioning to dancers, instructors, and ballet studios in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont.

Dance and health are two of Naomi’s greatest passions in life, and—as a professional therapist and artist—she sees it as her life’s calling to share the knowledge, skills, experience, and resources she’s acquired over the years with the community of artists she so loves. Working with dancers and seeing them grow in understanding and becoming equipped to care for their bodies well is her most rewarding work. Naomi aims to provide a whole-dancer approach, acknowledging all parts within us that must work together to move more freely.

Naomi resides in southern New Hampshire and enjoys time with family, cooking, and exploring the outdoors to refresh and reset.

PHOTO CRED: Peter Murray

PHOTO CRED: Peter Murray

BALLET BIO

Training & Career

  • Northeastern Ballet Theatre (2013-Present)

    • Company Member

    • Principal dancer in Dracula, The Snow Queen, the Nutcracker, the Wizard, Sound of Music, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Snow White.

    • Instructor of Intermediate Ballet, Pointe, & Dance Conditioning classes

  • Dance Designs (2000-2014)

    • Instructor of Ballet, Tap, & Jazz

  • Boston Ballet School

    • Scholarship Trainee — performed in The Nutcracker & Sleeping Beauty

  • Joffrey Ballet School

    • Summer Intensive Program

  • Broadway Dance Center

    • Student

  • The University of Vermont

    • Orchises Dance Troupe

  • Dance Workshop with Kay Welch, Northern Vermont

    • Student