Angelina Sansone began her formal ballet training with Charlotte City Ballet in North Carolina. At the age of 14, she left home to attend The Harid Conservatory in Florida on a full-tuition scholarship. After graduating from Harid, she spent two seasons with The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, where she appeared in Robert Altman’s 2003 film The Company. Following her time with Joffrey, Sansone pursued a B.S. in Ballet at Indiana University before joining the Kansas City Ballet in 2005. In her 14 seasons with the company, she enjoyed a rich career working with numerous choreographers and performing a wide-ranging repertoire of soloist and principal roles. She was also a founding member of the interdisciplinary performance fusion group Quixotic and performed with Chamber Dance, New Orleans Ballet, and Motion Dance Theatre.
While pursuing her performing career, Sansone maintained an active teaching schedule and participated in a variety of creative projects. For more than 15 years, she served on staff as a ballet teacher with several dance schools and taught as guest faculty across the country. In August 2018, she returned to her home state and proudly joined the ballet faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA).
Before beginning her appointment, Sansone received her certification from the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum. Since joining UNCSA, she has staged multiple pieces and assisted in the creation of new works by Ilya Kozadayev, Stephanie Martinez, and Gina Patterson. During her summers since returning to North Carolina, Sansone has continued to teach in the regional community, received her Progressing Ballet Technique certification, and, in 2019, traveled to Guangdong, China, as a visiting professor of ballet at Guangdong University.
Now an Associate Professor in the School of Dance, Sansone serves as Co-Director of the UNCSA Festival of Dance and is a member of the S/OURCE Winter Intensive team. She recently made her choreographic debut on the UNCSA stage with her work Perhaps, created for the UNCSA Summer Intensive 2024.