Wiki Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Sarah Frater is a British art critic and journalist, with a focus on dance.
- She is also the partner of TV personality James May, of Top Gear and The Grand Tour fame.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Sarah Frater was born in 1967 in England, where she was also raised.
- She started dating TV presenter and automobile enthusiast James May in 2000. The two have been together ever since.
- Sarah lives in the Hammersmith area of West London with James. They are not married and have no children but do share a close and long-standing partnership.
- In 2019, James and Sarah purchased the property next door to theirs and later refurbished and converted the two properties into one spacious house. Sarah and James lived on different properties in London until some time back because Sarah had a wonderful Notting Hill apartment. The couple made sure to keep their neighbours informed of each step of their refurbishment process since before it began.
- Sarah is close friends with Mindy Hammond, wife of James May’s co-worker Richard Hammond. The two couples frequently meet up when the two men aren’t away filming for their various shows.
Work : Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth
- Sarah is an accomplished arts journalist. She focuses on dance reviews and critique, particularly for the prestigious art of ballet.
- She frequently writes blogs, opinion pieces, and articles about various ballet schools and troupes and the various shows she attends.
- Sarah collaborates with various publications that publish her reviews and articles, such as The Evening Standard, The London Evening Standard, and The Stage.
- Frater is a dance expert, especially when it comes to ballet, contemporary dance and choreography, and is highly sought-after by dance companies for their shows’ reviews.
- Sarah has reviewed innumerable shows such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Carmen, Inala, Romeo and Juliet, Second before the Ground, Leah, Dralion, Don Quixote, and Cheri.
- She has also written many profiles for dancers, such as for Akhram Khan. Many dance companies use Sarah’s reviews to promote their shows, both on-location and on their websites.
- She has also written articles about the Edinburgh Festival and various theatre productions.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Sarah is a very private person and very rarely appears with James at public events.
- James credits Sarah for keeping him down-to-earth. He has stated that she judges him if he says anything pretentious, which keeps him level-headed.
- James has made Sarah personalised jewellery.
- Sarah’s partner James is more of a music fan than a dance fan, but he occasionally accompanies Sarah to some productions. They attended a gala together that blended both their passions, Audi at the Ballet, in 2014. They also attended the Audi Ballet Evening in 2015.
