Faculty & Staff

 
Jennie  Creer-King
Jennie Creer-King — Founder/Director
Jennie Creer-King (Founder) is an accomplished professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and mentor. She danced professionally with Ballet West under the direction of John Hart from 1990-1994 in the corps de ballet. She also danced professionally with Oregon Ballet Theatre under the direction of James Canfield from 1994-1997 as a soloist and principal dancer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994 and a Master of Fine Art in 1999 from the University of Utah Ballet Department. Jennie accepted a tenure track position at Brigham Young University from 1999-2004 as a Professor of Dance in the College of Health and Human Performance. At BYU Jennie was appointed the Artistic Director of Theatre Ballet Company where she taught ballet technique, pointe, variations, and choreographed original works as well as re-staging the classics. Jennie has received various awards for her teaching and choreography including the prestigious Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award and Utah's own Best of State in the Choreography category in 2007 and 2008. Jennie is an experienced coach and has had the honor of coaching students who have received internationally recognized awards and honors including the Youth American Grand Prix Award with students Garrett Smith and Tiare Keeno. Her students receive scholarships and contracts to companies and universities across the country and it is her greatest pleasure to see their accomplishments
Jessica Harston Thompson
Jessica Harston Thompson — Instructor
Jessica Harston Thompson joined Ballet West in 1994 and was promoted to principal dancer in 1999. Principal roles included the title role in Birgit Culbergs's Miss Julie, Sanquinic in George Balanchines the Four Temperments, the Sylph in Peter Schaufuss' La Slyphide, Odette/Odile in Jonas Kage's Swan Lake, Princess Aurora in Kage's Sleeping Beauty, the Sugar Plum Fairy in William Christensen's The Nutcracker as well as the Fairy Godmother and Winter Fairy in Ben Stevenson's Cinderella.
Heather  Fryxell
Heather Fryxell — Instructor
Heather Fryxell (formerly Heather Sanders) was born and raised in Florida. Upon leaving Miami, Ms. Fryxell attended the University of Utah and Brigham Young University on a full tuition talent scholarship. During her educational experience, Ms. Fryxell danced extensively with both universities’ dance companies and toured the west as a guest artist. Ms. Fryxell then danced with the Atlanta Ballet before joining Southern Ballet Theatre (currently Orlando Ballet) as a principal dancer.
Lindsay  Folkman
Lindsay Folkman
Lindsay Folkman has been trained in a wide variety of dance genres since the age of three. She began with ballet and tap, then went on to jazz with a performing jazz company in St. George, Utah. Upon entering high school, Lindsay extended her jazz training with high school division competition jazz, where she served as a leader and choreographer to her peers and was awarded first in State for her first choreographed piece. Since this time she has had a profound love for choreography and began to expand her movement vocabulary at Brigham Young University.
Wilson  Domingues
Wilson Domingues
Wilson Domingues performed with the Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbon, Portugal in Europe for 16 years as a Soloist and toured internationally having had the opportunity of working with some of the most renowned choreographers such as: Paul Taylor, Amanda Miller, Jiri Kylian, Hans Van Manen, Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, Christopher House, Itzik Galili and Angelin Preljocaj among others.
Rachael Dailey
Bio Coming Soon
Chelsea  Ellis
Chelsea Ellis
CHELSEA ELLIS (MFA, University of Utah; BS, Southern Utah University) has been a member of NY Dance Collective Dance Company and Transfusion Hype Dance Company. Chelsea has performed at The Cunningham Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, The Slipper Room and the Abingdon Arts Complex in NYC. Her work and scholarship has been presented at Idaho State University's ‘The Art of Gender in Everyday Life Conference’,
Polly Sutton
Polly gradutated magna cum laude with her BFA and MFA in Ballet Performance from the University of Utah. She was awarded the William F. Christiansen Scholarship for four years, and danced as a soloist in the Utah Ballet and Character Dance Ensemble. While with the Utah, Polly performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. She was awarded the Dance Magazine Outstanding Dancer Scholarship to Craft and Choreography Summer Program, and scholarships to Pacific Northwest Ballet as well as Sen Francisco Ballet, Polly acted as the Ballet Mistress for Utah Ballet during her final year of graduate school.
Hansel & Gretel ballet performance April 16 & 17 2010

Hansel & Gretel

April 16 & 17, 2010
Classical Ballet Academy invites you to a beautiful rendition of a fairy tale favorite. Click on image above to purchase tickets.
Summer Intensive & Children's Program.

Summer Intensive & Children's Programs

June 7th - July 2nd
Summer Intensive & Children's Program.
Fall/Winter 2010-2011 Schedule

Fall/Winter 2010-2011 Schedule

Intensive & Children's Programs
Check out our fall/winter schedule. Available on the website now.
Winner Best of State 2007 & 2008

Best of State

Utah 2007 & 2008
Classical Ballet Academy owner/director Jennie Creer-King Best of State Choreographer 2007 and 2008.
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