Ballet Director

Morgan Morley 

Morgan grew up in Utah where she trained at Linda Fenton Dance studio. While in school she performed with the pre-professional ballet company, Mountain West ballet. After graduating she danced with the Ballet West’s Trainees here in Utah until she moved to Russia to become a full time student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.

Upon returning to Utah, Morgan danced on the ballet company, Utah Metropolitan Ballet. She received her BA in Dance from Brigham Young University where she performed with their Theatre Ballet Company. She enjoyed her experiences of working with repetitieurs from both the George Balanchine and Gerald Arpino Foundations. She was also privileged with the opportunity of traveling to Europe
with the BYU Dance department and studying ballet at La Scala and the Hamlyn Ballet School. 

Morgan loves learning about the body and finding ways to better strengthen and take care of her instrument. She has become certified in Stott Pilates both in Matwork and on the Reformer. Morgan has also become certified in Progressing Ballet Technique and Total Barre. She believes that these are great avenues of cross training for dancers. 

She recently returned home from living in London with her husband where she continued her ballet and contemporary training by attending a Russian Ballet Workshop with Julia Makhalina and a Contemporary Ballet workshop with Rose Alice, artistic director of International Arts Collective. She loved the diversity of taking the professional division classes at Danceworks and Pineapple studios where she could train in all of the different methods of ballet. Morgan has been teaching dance for 8 years at studios across the valley, including her time teaching as adjunct faculty at BYU. She is currently dancing and performing with Chrysalis Ballet Company in Lehi, Ut. She hopes to inspire young artists to move, grow, and change through dance.