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Tiffany CarpenterArtistic Director
Tiffany began her dance training in Utah at age 8. At age 16 she received a scholarship to train at the Tremaine studio in Los Angeles. While taking class there, she realized that she had to dance professionally. Tiffany eventually moved to L.A. where she received another scholarship to train for a year with Jackie Sleight and her staff of accomplished teachers. She stayed for an additional year and worked professionally. Eventually she made her way back to Utah and in 1995, began a fulfilling 7-year run with the professional jazz/ballet company Odyssey Dance Theatre, directed by Derryl Yeager. That same year, Yeager also directed her in the original cast of the musical “Utah!” at the Tuacahn Theatre in St. George, Utah. While a member of Odyssey, Tiffany had the additional honor of working with New York choreographer Mia Michaels, and then of representing Mia’s company in a 5 1/2 week European tour.
Some of Tiffany’s other credits include: “42nd Street”, the “Move to the Groove Ball” for Mari Winsor, industrials for Reebok, Starter, Rampage and Novell, music video “Canadian Rose” for Blues Traveler, a Honda commercial, dancer and dance double in the opening credits for the lead in the movie, “Out of Step, and promotional videos for Novell, and NuSkin. Tiffany has also had the wonderful opportunity of teaching and directing over the past 11 years. She has won numerous awards for her choreography as well as New York City Dance Alliance’s CRITIC'S CHOICE AWARD.
Tiffany recently had the honor of choreographing a work for Odyssey Dance Theatre called "Heartland" and has also choreographed for the 2010 USANA industrial featuring David Osmond. Besides being the Artistic Director of The Pointe, Tiffany is also co-director for Odyssey Dance Theatre's jr. company, 02, a pre-professional company. She has enjoyed teaching master classes and workshops throughout the United States but one of the most rewarding aspects of her career is working with special needs kids in The Pointe's free program called Creative Movement for Children with Special Needs.
Tiffany has a wonderful, supportive husband and three beautiful children who are blessed by The Pointe and it's amazing opportunities!
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Derryl YeagerOdyssey Dance Theatre Founder/Artistic Director, Ballet Instructor and Pointe Faculty Advisor
As a professional dancer for over two decades, Derryl Yeager has had experience in every style and medium. He received his BFA and MFA degrees at the University of Utah while becoming a principal dancer with Ballet West. He then went on to perform in the Broadway Shows A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, and Cats and has appeared in numerous TV and Film projects that include Staying Alive, She's Having a Baby, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, A More Perfect Union, Moonlighting, The Tracy Ullman Show, The Young and the Restless, and General Hospital.
As a Choreographer and Director he has worked professionally from Ballet to Broadway, Film, Music Videos, and numerous Television Shows. He has taught at two major universities and was Artistic Director for the BYU Theatre Ballet for 2 years. He has choreographed numerous successful ballets with several professional companies and has been the production choreographer for Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, and Joseph at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, winner of the Tony Award for best regional theatre in the year 2000.
At the Tuacahn Amphitheatre in St. George, Utah, Derryl has directed and choreographed 2 smash productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicholor Dreamcoat and Oklahoma and has choreographed Utah, Annie Get Your Gun, The King and I, and the Wizard of Oz. This fall he will direct and choreograph Tuacahn's production of CATS.
As Founder and Artistic Director of Odyssey Dance Theatre, Derryl has directed, choreographed and produced over 24 works for this world renowned jazz-ballet company. Derryl is thrilled to call The Pointe Performing Arts Academy as Odyssey's rehearsal home and hopes to have many dancers from The Pointe join his company as they graduate from this excellent program.
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Stephanie ColeBallet Director
Stephanie Cole began her training at the age of 8 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Stephanie received scholarships from American Festival Ballet and Ballet Idaho. She has performed with Eugene Ballet, Ballet Idaho and American Festival Ballet. Stephanie attended University of Utah and worked with the Ballet West Conservatory. She attended and graduated from Brigham Young University in dance. Besides much performances experience, Stephanie has choreographed and restaged classical pieces for BYU, Rocky Mountain Ballet, Rocky Mountain Repertory Dance, and Studio One of Idaho Falls. Stephanie has also choreographed productions of Nutcracker and Coppelia for the Pearl House of Idaho Falls, a non-profit children and youth center.
Stephanie is married to a ballroom dancer which she said she would never do and has four children.
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Ashley RodgersCompany Director, Jazz and Hip Hop Instructor
Ashley Rodgers started her dance training at the age of three years old. She trained numerous hours each week and enjoyed every second of it. She trained in Jazz, Hip-Hop, Ballet, Tap, and ballroom. She competed at the award winning studio Pulse 31 where she won numerous scholarships and titles such as ICON of the year, Jump VIP 2 years in a row, NYCDA yearlong scholarship and many more. At the age of 17 she had the opportunity to travel with a famous convention called Hollywood Connection where she assisted numerous choreographers such as Brooke Lipton, Rob Schultz, Bill Bohl, Lisette Bustamante, Laura King, Chonique Sneed and Zach Woodlee. She has recently been assisting the top hip-hop convention “Wrap It Up” for the last four years. Ashley moved to L.A. after graduating high school where she continued her dance career. Working with numerous choreographers and performing in many shows. Her credits include 2002 Winter Olympics, back up dancing for Aaron Carter and the new and up coming artist Dior. She also was an opening act for Diamond Rio and Michelle Branch. Her movie credits include, The Curious Case of Ben Buttons and she recently was the assistant choreographer for the famous movie GET SMART. She enjoys teaching and watching students push themselves to be the best that they can be. She is currently attending school where she is majoring in health and nutrition.
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Shauna OliverioCompany Director and Instructor
Shauna Oliverio grew up and studied her first years of dance in Michigan. She trained on scholarship under the direction of Joey Malone and Jackie Sleight at the Performing Arts Center in Van Nuys, CA. During these years of training, Shauna focused on Jazz, Tap, Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, Hip Hop, Acting and Voice. Shauna has been teaching children of all ages for the past 12 years and there is nothing in the world that she is more passionate about! Shauna started and is currently running her very own in-studio intensive, Rapture Dance Intensive. Some of Shauna's professional dance credits include, Detroit Pistons Automotion, Ally McBeal, The Tracy Ulmann show, a Microsoft Industrial for "Xbox", Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, main dancer in an NFL half-time show with Enrique Iglesias, Windsor Casino and Tuacahn "Broadway in the dessert". A few years ago Shauna found her love for Musical Theatre and played Liz in "Chicago", Rosie in "Cabaret" and Etcetera in "Cats"! Shauna now lives in Salt Lake City, UT, where she trains, performs and travels with Odyssey Dance Theatre.
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Seneca MinerAssistant Director, Combo and Jazz Instructor
Seneca has trained in dance since the age of 5 at such places as All American Gymnastics, The Dance Club, Utah Academy of Dance and Center Stage Performing Arts Studio She was seen in the CMT Music Video “Going Home” and the TV commercial “In Your Face” and was Brigitta in the Scera Shell production of “The Sound of Music”. In High School she was on Dance Company and was a Varsity Cheer and Song Leader. She won Dance All Star at the USA Song Competition. She has done professional choreography for Ally’s Dance Studio and for local High School Teams. She has been on professional staff teaching at United Dance Studio, The Pointe Academy and The Vibe Performing Arts Studio. She is currently a performer with Rick Robinson and Kellie Meserly’s “One Night Only.”
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Sarah AezerCompany Director and Ballet Instructor
Sarah Aezer began her training at a very young age and has studied extensively in many different styles of dance as well as tumbling and acting. Some of Sarah's dance career highlights include touring with Ballet West to Alaska as Clara in their production of The Nutcracker, acting in Disney Channel's Original Movie "High School Musical" and performing as a featured dancer in Disney Channel's "High School Musical 2". She has worked with numerous choreographers including shooting a music video choreographed by Mandy Moore. Sarah is currently in her 5th year as a company member of Odyssey Dance Theatre and has completed four European tours, performed at the Alvin Ailey Theater in New York City, toured to Beijing, China to perform at Dance Festival Beijing 2008, coinciding with the Summer Olympics.
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Audrey ParkerCompany Director, Jazz, Hip Hop and Modern Instructor
Audrey Kingham is a twenty year old native of Las Vegas, Nevada. Audrey began dancing at Bunker Dance Center and continued dancing there until she graduated high school from the Las Vegas Academy for Performing Arts where she majored in dance in 2007. Audrey then moved to Utah to pursue a bachelor’s degree in modern dance at Utah Valley University. She is currently on their contemporary company, Contemporary Dance Ensemble. Audrey has worked with choreographers such as Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo for four years, and is currently an assistant to Stacey Tookey from “So You Think You Can Dance”. Audrey has been teaching for six years, and has been dancing for fifteen. She is excited for the new challenges and opportunities that teaching at The Pointe Academy will bring.
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Gev ManoukianHip Hop Instructor
Gev Manoukian, of Armenian descent, was born and raised in Kazakhstan. In his senior year of school, Gev formed the first break-dancing group in his hometown. Together, they learned their moves by watching videos and through trial and error.
In 2003 Gev moved to Salt Lake City, UT. He soon found a local break-dancing/hip-hop group and joined the ranks, picking up where her left off in his hometown. The group, “Extreme Dance Studio”, introduced him to the world of hip-hop. With his natural ability to pick up new dance movements, and his zeal to dance, the new genera took flight; brining him to a new level in dancing. As he continued developing his dancing abilities, he soon discovered a new transition in his dancing…the combination of break-dance, hip-hop, and classical movements all rolled into one.
Gev engages audiences with his self-taught moves and passion. In 2004 Gev auditioned for the Hollywood block buster, High School Musical 2, and was chosen as a featured dancer. Two years later, he was cast as a principal dancer in movie, “The American Mall”. In 2008 Gev’s dancing talents took him to the nationwide auditions of the Fox reality, hit, TV show, “So You Think You Can Dance”. Gev’s unique, versatile, and powerful dancing abilities, won the judges and America over, as he danced his way to the top 10 dancers.
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Mindy RobbinsRobbins Musical Theatre Academy Director
Bio coming soon.
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Jessica RuffellCompany Director and Jazz Instructor
Jessica Ruffell has had over 30 years of dance and music experience, including jazz, ballet, pointe, modern, ballroom, musical theatre & tap. She began and was introduced to dance from Dance Arts School located in Burley, Idaho under the direction of Jennifer Sager. She was a member of the prestigious and nationally acclaimed Cougarettes, Brigham Young University's dance team for 2 years and spent 3 years while at BYU training extensively in ballet, modern and jazz. She choreographs for students throughout Idaho and Utah and has received several top choreography awards. For 12 years, Jessica was the owner and artistic director of Centre Stage Studios of Dance and Performing Arts located in Nampa, Idaho which offered a complete and highly sought out performing arts program. She especially loves to create through her work with choreography and enjoys the opportunity to teach others her love of dance. Jessica and her husband Mike have 2 beautiful daughters, Alexi & Bria and a new baby boy, Cody.
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Jessie ThackerGuest Instructor
Jessie has been dancing since the day she was born. Her dream was always to be a "Star" and has never forgotten that dream. Jessie has been trained extensively in Jazz, Ballet, Hip-Hop, and Contemporary. Since graduating with High Honors from Lone Peak High School she has performed with Odyssey Dance Theatre, Odyssey's European tour, Justin Giles SoulEscape, various industrials and was featured in Disney's "High School Musical", and "High School Musical 3 Senior Year" She has also taught Jazz, Hip Hop, and Contemporary Movement.
Jessie is currently dancing with Odyssey Dance Theatre for her second season. She is a freelance teacher and choreographer and looks forward for the years of growth and opportunities to come.
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Alyse OvermanCompany Director, Jazz and Hip Hop Instructor
Alyse has a passion for dancing and helping others around her gain the joy and accomplishment one can achieve through the art of dance. She started taking dance classes at West Pointe Studios where she studied hip hop, jazz, and ballet, as well as gymnastics at Rocky Mountain Gymnastics. She continued dancing in high school where she was an officer for the dance company and the drill team's president. She has received many dance awards through the years at dance competitions and other events, one being the Sterling Scholar in Dance for her high school. She danced on the professional dance team for the Utah Flash D-league NBA team for three years, as one of their captains. With the Utah Flash she had the opportunity to travel around the state talking to children about not only dance, but also the benefits that can come from living a healthy and active life. She has done choreography and judging for local high school teams throughout Utah and is currently continuing to take dance classes at Utah Valley University where she is majoring in Biology and Community Health and planning to continue her education in the medical field. Alyse is currently living in Lehi, Utah with her husband and is excited to yet again have the opportunity to teach children how to dance!
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Kandice BarneyJazz Instructor
Kandice Barney, a Utah native, began dancing at the age of three. She began training with Wasatch Dance Center in Heber City, Utah in 1999. There she trained in ballet, jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, tap and tumbling. Since then she has earned National, International, and media credit. Kandice is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Modern Dance Performance, at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. She is a recipient of many awards, which include Deseret News Sterling Scholar in dance, Spotlight Dance Cup's Classical Beauty, and NYCDA Regional Scholarship winner. Kandice has been choreographing and teaching dance for eight years. She has choreographed for Utah Valley University's Synergy Dance Company Concerts the past three years. National Credits include: Performance in Odyssey Dance Theater's hit Halloween show, Thriller, and their Christmas show, Joy to the World, Ballet West's Nutcracker, and a scholarship recipient to New York City Dance Alliance Summer Dance Intensive. International Credits include: FIS World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany. Media credits: ESPN Airwave show in Park City.
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Deven DavenportMartial Arts Instructor
Deven Davenport has had an interest in martial arts since the age of 5 years old. He did not start training officially until the age of 14. Now at 28, he has earned the rank of 3rd Dan Black Belt under the direction of Master David Pierce of Bushi Ban Martial Arts and Fitness. Deven has been instructing all ages, all ranks for 8 years.
As an instructor, Deven teaches with a strong work ethic. His classes are informative and challenging, but exciting and fun for all age groups.
With his quest for knowledge, he always strives to become as well rounded in the martial arts as he can. He has trained one on one and attended classes and seminars with some of the biggest names in martial arts. Such as:
-- American Bondo Association's Grand Master Myong Gi- Knife Combat
-- Bushi Ban's Grand Master Zulfi Ahmed- Traditional Kata /MMA
-- Senior Master Eric Loveless Kickboxing/Stick Fighting
-- UFC Champions-Lyoto Machida - MMA and Matt Hughes-MMA
-- American Top Team's Ricardo Liborio- MMASome of his of accomplishments include:
-- Competing in traditional Karate tournaments on a local and national level.
-- Has been requested and performed for NBA half time shows
-- Has been requested and performed for Grand Masters and Black Belt Hall of Fame Members
-- One of the founding members of Bushi Ban's award winning Team Xtreme demo team-- 2004 The Excellence in Motion award (as part of Team Xtreme)
-- 2005 Winner of the Salt City Nationals flying side kick event. (6'1"in height)
-- 2007 Utah Summer Games Gold Medal in Creative Weapons Kata
-- 2007 Utah Summer Games Silver Medal in Traditional Kata
-- 2007 Bushi Ban Nationals 2nd place in Point Fighting
-- 2007 & 2009 Bushi Ban Nationals Grand Champion Creative Weapons Kata
-- 2009 Bushi Ban Nationals 2nd place Open Hand Creative KataNot limiting himself to only one aspect of martial arts has made him experienced and knowledgeable in the combative, weapons, extreme, and traditional martial arts.
In his spare time he enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, and playing his guitar. Also reading anti-hero books and going to punk rock shows.
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Eldon JohnsonOdyssey 2 Instructor
Eldon Johnson has been dancing in Utah now for over 15 years. Training under the direction of Penny Broussard at the Winner School, Eldon was able to begin his career with Odyssey Dance Theater at the age of 19. Eldon was named Best Individual Dancer 2010 at the Utah Best of State Gala. Since then Eldon has been blessed to work with some of the dance communities most sought-after choreographers including Derryl Yeager, Bonnie Story, Dee Caspary, Mia Michaels, and Mandy Moore. His professional credits include 2010 MTV VMA Awards with Florence and the Machines, High School Musical 1 and 3, Windows 7, SoulEscape, and Parsons Dance Project. Having traveled, and danced around the world, Eldon is happy to call Utah home.
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Carson JardineBreakdancing Instructor
Bio coming soon.
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Leslie LyntonBallet Instructor
Leslie began her ballet training at the age of 5 at the Jacqueline Colledge's School of Classical Ballet. At age 14 she was invited to dance as an apprentice with Utah Regional Ballet. Just two years later in 2000 she joined the Utah Regional Ballet (URB) as a member of their professional company. She had the opportunity to perform with URB in China, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Leslie was invited to perform at the International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Missouri, in 2003. She has been awarded full-tuition scholarships to the Richmond Ballet Summer Program, The Burklyn Ballet Summer Program, and Utah Valley University; Ballet Scholarship. Leslie has been a member of the Regional Dance America since 1998, and competed and performed at festivals annually.
Leslie continued her education and ballet training at Brigham Young University, she had the wonderful opportunity to perform with both the Ballet Showcase and Theater Ballet companies. She finished her schooling and graduated with her BA in Ballet Performance. In 2005 and 2006 Leslie underwent 2 major reconstructive knee surgeries and had to put her performance career on hold.
Leslie, has a deep love and passion for dance, especially ballet, and is so excited to be sharing that with her students at the Pointe Academy.
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Andy Iotvicci
Ballet Jazz Instructor
Bio coming soon!
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Suelyn Thomas
Combo, Itty Bitty Instructor
Suelyn has been dancing since the age of 5. She has been trained in classical ballet, point, lyrical, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, gymnastics and musical theater. She has been performing in groups since she started dancing and she began competing in group numbers when she was 8 years old. When she was ten she started choreographing and competing solos. At the young age of 13, she was given the part of King Rat in the Uintah Basin Ballet Company's production of The Nutcracker and "The 80's" solo the year after in their production of Revolution. In high school, Suelyn earned the parts of Belle in Beauty & The Beast and Mayzie La Bird in Seussical the Musical. Suelyn has been a member and choreographer of multiple performing arts groups including Utah State University's Stagelight, Roosevelt Utah's Bravada & Encore, Camille Swain's Singing Sensations and she later went on to form her own performing group- The Vocals! While in college, Suelyn was on SUU's ballroom dance company. She is now attending UVU where she is majoring in Dance Education. She has had students from ages two to seventeen and taught classes in hip hop, jazz, combination classes and musical theater. She loves working to help her students learn and meet their highest potential!
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Matt Dorame
Jazz Instructor
Bio coming soon!
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Jessica PhillipsBallet Instructor
At the age of six months, Jessica's baby photos reflected her desire to be a ballerina. She would pointe her toes while in sitting position. At age four, she took her first dance classes in tap and ballet. Jessica was accepted into the Sr. Company at Rocky Mountain Ballet at the age of 11, and later became a Principal dancer with the Company and started performing leading roles at age 13. Some of Jessica's Principal roles include: Odette (White Swan) in Swan Lake, Lise in La Fille Mal Gardee, Kitri in Don Quixote, Swanilda in Coppelia and the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker. Jessica has also performed the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy as a Guest Artist.
Jessica has received several scholarships to Summer Intensive Workshops across the nation, where she had opportunities to take class from: David Howard, teacher of Mikhail Baryshnikov; Maria Tallchief, America's Prima Ballerina, and Galina Mezentseva, Prima Ballerina Assoluta.
Jessica has been teaching ballet since the age of 15. She has taught at many dance studios in Utah County, but loves the professionalism found at The Pointe.
She loves teaching young dancers, and sharing her love of ballet with them. Jessica not only teaches technique, but works on performance quality. She teaches and motivates each dancer to become the very best they can. She teaches that dance is not just about doing the steps, but about dancing from the heart.
Jessica graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Marriage, Family, Human Development. She is married to her high school sweetheart. Jessica loves to travel, and a memorable experience of hers is getting to watch the Bolshoi Ballet perform in the Bolshoi Opera House in Moscow, Russia.
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Veronica Yeager
Guest Instructor
Veronica Yeager has been dancing her whole life and has found so much joy in it. She recently performed in Footloose and Annie at Tuacahn where she also played in Cats (Tantomile). She was also in the National Broadway tour of Footloose. Film Credits: High School Musical 2, HSM 3, MTV's American Mall. International Dance Tours include: Mia Micheals RAW (Europe), U.S. Ballroom Champion (Ukraine), Odyssey Dance Theatre (China, Europe, South Korea, Costa Rica, Mexico). Regional Credits: Giselle (Giselle), It's a Wonderful Life (Mary Bailey). Veronica has performed with Coca Cola in the 2001 SLC Olympics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She has been a principal dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre for 11 years and is grateful to be doing what she LOVES to do.
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Thayne JaspersonGuest Instructor
Thayne Jasperson was recently seen on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance" season 4! He then continued on to the SYTYCD National and Canadian tour. Film credits: High School Musical (Brainiac), High School Musical 2, MTV's American Mall, and Handcart (Horace). Regional Theatre credits: Footloose (Ren), It's a Wonderful Life (George Bailey), Cats (MungoJerrie), 42nd Street (Andy Lee), 1776 (Courier), Can Can Club (Toulouse Lautrec), Aida and Annie. He danced 6 years as a principal with Odyssey Dance Theatre touring Europe, China, Costa Rica and across the U.S. For Thayne's choreographic work with Odyssey, he received a rave review from the New York Times describing his work as "ingenious!" He has also choreographed for many national corporations and continues to teach/choreograph wherever the opportunity arises. For inquiries, email [email protected] or check out www.youtube.com/ThayneJasperson.
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Erin ReidBallet Instructor
Erin received her early training at the Clytie Adams School of Ballet and the Ballet West Conservatory where she studied ballet, jazz and modern dance. During her training she performed several years in Ballet West's The Nutcracker and also performed in The Utah Ballet's Snow Queen.
Erin attended Brigham Young University where she studied dance under several instructors, including Mark Lanham, Yi Qi Cheng and Kim Lanham. While attending BYU, Erin was a member of the Cougarette dance team and a Songleader performing at basketball games, football games, and other events. She was also featured as a solo dancer for Salt Lake City's The Grand Theater production of The King and I and the Miss Utah Pageant. Erin taught ballet and jazz and choreographed competition routines for several years locally in Utah.
In 1995 Erin became one of the inaugural members of the professional Dance company Odyssey Dance Theater, under the direction of Derryl Yeager. After performing for two seasons with Odyssey, Erin moved to New York City. While in New York, she trained at the Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway, working under many well-known instructors and choreographers such as AC Ciulla, Mia Michaels, and Michael Owens. Erin then taught ballet at the Tenafly Performing Arts Studio in New Jersey under the direction of Sandra St. Laurent.
Erin loves helping children progress and enjoys instilling in them a love and appreciation for dance. She graduated from BYU with a BA in Humanities and History in 1996. She has four children and is thrilled to be living and teaching in Utah again.
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Krissy Bentley
Pointe Party Planner
Bio coming soon!
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Amy Lives
Triple Threat Instructor
Amy Lives graduated in Dance from BYU in 1991. While at BYU she performed abroad with The Young Ambassadors and The Dancers Company. She was the first recipient of the Susan Parson's Award. She also got dance scholarships, Dancer's Choice Award, and Best Choreography. She received a full scholarship to the Ririe Woodbury Intensive Summer Workshop. Amy completed her MFA in Dance from the University of Utah in 1995. Meanwhile, performing four summers at Sundance Summer Theater and two summers at Promised Valley Playhouse. In 1995 Amy began teaching dance classes at BYU. She directed the Summer Dance Medley Camp in 1997 and was Assistant Director in 1998. She was Assistant Professor from 1996-1998 and she taught and choreographed dances at Utah Valley University. She was Adjunct Faculty in the BYU Dance Department from 1995-2003. While there she choreographed "The Merry Widow", "My Fair Lady", "Soft Shoe", "Brigadoon" and "Song and Dance". She has choreographed shows at the Scera Shell and Provo Theater Company. In 2003 she was the full-time choreographer at Lagoon for the summer and Halloween shows. She has also taught dance at the Children's Dance Program at BYU, the Virginia Tanner Studio at the University of Utah, South Valley Creative Dance and Creative Edge Dance Studio. She resides in Draper and loves playing tennis.
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Kristi Hill
Ballet Instructor
Kristi Hill began dancing ballet and jazz in Helena, Montana at the age of seven. She received several scholarships for summer study with SallyAnn Mulcahy, Gelsy Kirkland, Ariana Lallone, Otto Nuwbert, David Norwood, and the Ballet West staff. After graduating from high school she moved to Utah to attend Brigham Young University. At BYU she was on a dance scholarship for four years and a half years. For one of those years she received a half tuition academic scholarship. While at BYU she danced with Theatre Ballet Company for four and a half years. She performed many lead roles in their productions, such as the "Fairy Princess" in Goldilocks Adventure, the "Snow Queen" in the ballet The Snow Queen and other solos with numerous choreographers. While on Theatre Ballet she toured to Colorado, New Mexico, Northern and Southern California, Washington and Oregon. Kristi graduated from BYU with a BA in Dance with an emphasis in Ballet. Her professional experiences are Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, the Queen and a Swan in Swan Lake, Arabian, Snow Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy in the Nutcracker, and The Queen in The Labrynth. Kristi has been teaching ballet for nine years all over Utah County. At these studios she has put on many full length ballet productions such as, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the Nutcracker. She has been a guest choreographer for ballet and jazz at Queen City Ballet in Montana. Kristi loves to teach ballet and loves seeing dancers push themselves each day. She believes that working your hardest is an important lesson not just in ballet but in every aspect of your life. Kristi has a wonderful husband and 2 beautiful children.