Heather began dancing at the age of four at her local dance studio in Ridge Manor, FL. She then moved on to dance with South Georgia Performing Arts, the South Georgia Ballet, and later at Charlottesville’s Wilson School of Dance. Heather spent two seasons as an Apprentice with Charlottesville Ballet and began teaching with Charlottesville Ballet Academy when they opened in 2011. Heather is an American Ballet Theatre Certified Teacher, who has successfully completed the ABT Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 5 of the ABT National Training Curriculum as well as Boston Ballet’s Adaptive Dance Teacher Training course. In 2021, she helped launch CB’s Adaptive Dance program and was promoted to CBA Principal after a decade of coaching thousands of students. She now oversees 700+ students in multiple locations with Charlottesville Ballet’s growing education programming.