Claire Christine Sargenti received her training with the Joffrey Ballet and went on to found the contemporary ballet company New Bridges Ballet in New York City while performing underground as The Metal Ballerina, earning her the title of “Classically Trained Rebel.” When an illness-related injury ended her career, she went on to write Interludes: A New (Orleans) Play, performing coast to coast as a 12 character solo show, winning the coveted Spirit of the Fringe award from the New York International Fringe Festival for both her writing and acting. She models for acclaimed photographers, appearing internationally in galleries while working on her own photographic and written project Self Portrait of a Solo Artist. Claire draws upon her work with the intersectional feminist movement for inspiration in the realm of visual art and can be seen in her piece entitled Origin - the world’s largest spinning vagina sculpture, Vagina Book - of which she is both the author and illustrator, the mixed media linocut art show PussyPussy, and the womxn’s empowerment brand True Nature Child. Under the pseudonym Paleo, Claire’s street art can be seen in cities across the nation, some highlights including Pussy For President which was carried at the 2020 Women’s March in Washington DC and Let Love Be Viral which first appeared on the streets of a boarded up New Orleans during the lockdown phase of the Coronavirus pandemic and was on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art for the 2020 Louisiana Contemporary. She is currently working on a collage style tarot deck that celebrates the femme in all bodies.

As Claire continues to heal from the illness that ended her ballet career but opened her up to so much more, Claire is impassioned by sharing the healing modalities that have helped her along the way with those in need of healing. For info on Claire’s work as a healer, please visit clairevoyant.org