Tonya Colpitts

Tonya Colpitts has been dancing for many years, beginning ballet training at a very young age and continuing with ballet, modern and lyrical dance training for over twenty years. Most recently, she has been a ballet and modern dancer with Starship Dance Troupe, performing in The Magic Toy Shop and the Rebound Dance Festival. Tonya was also a principal dancer with Galveston Ballet Company, where she enjoyed roles as the Emerald Fairy and Temperance Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, Soloist Shade, Shade Pas de Trois and Pas de Caractere in La Bayadere, Lead Naiad and Tarantella in Napoli, Mercedes in Don Quixote, Spanish Dancer, Chinese Dancer and Snow Queen in The Nutcracker, among others. Variations performed include Kitri solos (Don Quixote), Paquita, Swanilda (Coppelia), Carmen, Giselle, Medora (Le Cosaire) and the dying swan from Swan Lake. She has also danced with Idaho State Ballet, Granite State Ballet, Mesa Dance Company of San Diego and others. Tonya is very excited to join the wonderful team of dance instructors at The Dance Corner and hopes to impart her love and enjoyment of ballet to her students while improving their technique and helping them grow as dancers.