Sally Magruder

Dancing for more than 35 years with a true passion for ballet, Sally has professional experience as a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer.  Her teaching style offers students of all ages the opportunity to develop an ideal balance of musicality, flexibility, and muscle strength to ensure that the student will enjoy a lifetime of dancing, be that as a career or for personal fulfillment.  Her dance and teaching style truly resonates the quote from Martha Graham, “Dance is the Song of Your Body.”

 

A native of Southern California, Sally continues to study and has received professional training at various conservatories, colleges, dance intensives, and private dance studios across the United States including Southland Ballet, DeFore Dance Center, Maple Conservatory of Dance, Ballet Pacifica, California Conservatory of Dance, and South County Classical Ballet Conservatory to name a few.  Notably, Sally regularly attends the well-respected Sun King Dance Adult Intensive in Richmond Virginia, Director Heidi Winton-Stahle.  She has had the opportunity to study with Stela Viorica, Kathy Kahn, Melissa Allen Bowman, Maud Wachter, Christopher Hird, Randall Marks, Kathy Sawyer, Pedro Szalay, Chris Martin, Evette Demarco Swinson, Rosemary McCarter, Steven Inskeep, Paul Maure, Charles Maple, and Quenby Hersh.

 

Sally is trained in the Vaganova Method, as well as, an ABT® Certified Instructor. Additionally she completed the Progressing Ballet Technique programs Junior, Senior, & Advanced levels conducted by Marie Walton-Mahon. Now happily finding a permanent home with Elite Dance Academy, Sally had been a guest teacher with ballet technique and pointe for more than 10 years to students of all ages and abilities, most teaching recently at Endeavor School of the Arts, San Clemente Dance & Performing Arts Center, Southland Ballet, and has conducted Master Classes at The Studio Cooperative in Maryland.

 

Sally has performed numerous featured and soloist roles in classical pieces such as Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere, Coppelia, Toy Shoppe, and Swan Lake along with repertory and soloist roles in her own and various choreographer’s original contemporary and classical pieces.  A one-time florist Sally, who also owns 32 Fouettes Dance Skirts, has collaborated on and created costumes and headpieces for many dance competitions, recitals, and individual dancer’s performances.