Stacy Smith

Stacy Smith began her dance training with Terry O'Brien in Long Island, New York, continuing with the Eglevsky Ballet where she began her professional career as an apprentice with the company. From there, she went on to study at the School of American Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre School, simultaneously performing with the Puerto Rican Dance Theatre in NYC.  After a year with Baltimore Ballet, she performed both classical and contemporary repertoire with Ballet Nuevo Mundo de Caracas and Ballet Internacional de Caracas in Venezuela.  This is also where Stacy discovered her love for teaching.  With Ballet Florida, she performed principal and soloist roles by a variety of choreographers including Vicente Nebrada, Lambros Lambrou, and William Soleau.  She continued teaching all levels at the School of Ballet Florida and directed the extensive community outreach program, winning the Young Audience Artist of the Year award two years in a row.  The David Taylor Dance Theatre brought her to Colorado, dancing principal roles for over four years before "retiring" to the Cripple Creek/Victor area.  Her love for dance and teaching inspired the creation of Cresson Dance, a nonprofit educational and performing dance organization dedicated to serving the Pike's Peak region.  As director of Cresson Dance, Stacy taught all levels of ballet, pointe, pas de deux, and beginning levels of jazz, contemporary, ballroom, and hip hop and learned a variety of skills associated with running a nonprofit.  During this time, she was also a choreographer for the Thin Air Theatre Company. Since 2011, Stacy has been teaching classes, creating, setting and rehearsing choreography for Ballet Society of Colorado Springs, also teaching classes at Dana’s Dance in Woodland Park and the Colorado Springs Conservatory. As a certified yoga instructor,  Stacy teaches yoga classes and private instruction throughout the Pikes Peak region.  On a more personal note, her passions include her family, three cats, yoga practice, her garden and mountain home.