Area: Ballet
About:
Hilary Wolfley, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Ballet Area at Brigham Young University (BYU), serves as the BYU Ballet Area Coordinator and director of BYU Theatre Ballet Studio Company. She earned her BA in Dance from BYU and MFA in Dance from Hollins University where she studied in Berlin, Frankfurt, Virginia, and New York. She danced professionally with Utah Metropolitan Ballet (formerly Utah Regional Ballet), SALT Contemporary Dance, and Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company.
Her choreography has been presented at the English National Ballet School Summer Performance, CORPS de Ballet International, Utah Conference of Undergraduate Research, the American College Dance Festival Gala Performance, the Puerto Rico Classical Dance Competition, The Ballet Alliance, and World Dance Movement. Her choreography won Ballet Arkansas’ Visions Choreographic Competition and Utah Metropolitan Ballet’s Choreography Design Project. She has created original works for Utah Metropolitan Ballet, Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company, BYU’s ballet companies, Utah Valley University’s Synergy Company, Mudson Works-In-Progress Series, Jaqueline’s School of Ballet’s Contemporary Company, and several local studios and schools.
Hilary is certified in 4Pointe Levels 1-3, Progressing Ballet Technique, American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum Levels Pre-Primary to Level 5 and is an ABT Affiliate Teacher. She has also attended the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Teacher Training and STOTT Pilates Mat & Reformer Trainings. She loves mentoring students through their creative processes and explores the intersection of mothering and creativity in her own work.