Tiffany's Dance Academy - Pleasanton, San Ramon, South San Francisco, Costa Mesa, Livermore, CA

Polly is delighted to return to TDA this year to continue teaching your wonderful students. Polly brings years of professional dance and teaching experience to TDA. Prior to teaching at TDA, Polly was a favorite ballet teacher at several Utah and Southern California studios. She has also taught on the university level, teaching undergraduate classes at the University of Utah, as well as, being the Assistant Director of the Youth Artist’s ballet company at Brigham Young University.

Polly graduated magna cum laude with her BFA and Masters of Fine Arts in Ballet Performance from the University of Utah. She was awarded the Willam F. Christiansen Scholarship for four years, and danced as a soloist in the Utah Ballet and Character Dance Ensemble. While with the Utah Ballet 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 San Francisco Ballet. Polly acted as the Ballet Mistress for Utah Ballet during her final year of graduate school.

Polly has danced professionally with Charleston Ballet Theatre, Anaheim Ballet Theatre and American Folk Ballet. While with AFB Polly was a featured soloist for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Polly has also been a guest artist for several regional companies across the United States and Asia. She has performed principal roles in The Nutcracker, Le Corsair, Don Quixote, La Bayaderre, Swan Lake, Alice in Wonderland, and Cinderella. Polly has also been featured in many contemporary works by Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Tom Ruud, Paul Taylor, and Bruce Caldwell to name a few.

Polly made her musical theater debut in Oklahoma! at the Tuacahn Amphitheatre in St George, Utah. She served as Dance Captain there for two seasons and was a featured dancer in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat (where she learned to ride a camel), Annie Get Your Gun, Utah!, and The Sound of Music. Polly has also choreographed for the stage production Bye-Bye Birdie as well as several cabarets.

In 2004 Polly moved with her husband Ty to Orange County, California. While in the OC she worked as a Dancer for Disneyland Entertainment. Polly danced 36 different roles in stage, street, and film productions for Disneyland Entertainment. She also taught weekly dance and conditioning classes for Cinderella and her many friends.

Polly is thankful to be able to have her passion as a career, and looks forward to imparting her love of dance on her students.