About Erica
Erica’s passion is creating movement to tell and celebrate stories.
She has choreographed, directed, taught, and danced for many wonderful musical theatres, ballet studios, and dance companies over the last 30 years.
She’s the Artistic Director of Oregon Youth Ballet, where she teaches, choreographs full-length ballets and trains dancers for the Youth America Grand Prix.
For directing and choreography inquiries contact ericabury@gmail.com
As a teacher and choreographer she has worked with many wonderful studios, theaters, and companies. Most recently One Eleven Theatre, Clarion Theatre, Barnstormers Theatre, Fusion Dance, All That Jazz Dance, Steps on Broadway, San Francisco Ballet School, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Miss Diana’s School of Ballet, Bodyvox, GP Theatre Department, Pacific Northwest Ballet Teacher’s Seminar, Stillpoint Ballet, and Heartland Dance. She is the founding Artistic Director and Chief Choreographer of Oregon Youth Ballet.
Erica has been making dances since she was a kid. She began her dance training at Huntsville Ballet Company in Huntsville, Alabama with Dawn Crouch. She continued her primary training in Oregon under Sylvia Bolton, Penny King, and Nancy Gordon. She also trained or performed with Boston Ballet School, Ballet Magnificat, and State Ballet of Oregon, as well as for many regional musical theatre and dance companies.
She is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 7 & Partnering of the ABT National Training Curriculum.
ABT’s National Training Curriculum is a breakthrough program that combines high quality artistic training with the pillars of dancer health and child development. The program provides teachers with the information needed to fully understand the best practices in pedagogy, child development, dance psychology, and anatomy. Ballet teachers receive a holistic education on the National Training Curriculum and the best practices in how to teach ballet.
She is also a Progressing Ballet Technique certified instructor and holds her Bachelor of Science from the University of Oregon.
Her passion is choreography, where she uses her knowledge as a teacher to bring out the unique beauty in each person she works with. She dreams up full-length ballets and contemporary pieces, and loves to direct and choreograph musicals.
Whether coaching pre-professional students for the Youth America Grand Prix or experimenting with movement to bring characters to life in a musical, her goal is to give her dancers safe and excellent technique instruction combined with a joy for dance!