Toma Smith

Toma Smith was a scholarship student at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, the Joffrey Ballet School, the Chautauqua Institute in NY and the Pennsylvania Ballet School in Philadelphia, PA. Toma joined the Saint Louis Ballet Company in 1994 under the direction of Ludmila Dukoudovsky and Antoni Zalewski where she performed many soloist and principal roles. While dancing with the company, she had the opportunity to work with various choreographers and répétiteurs including Sally Bliss from the Tudor Trust, Carl Corry from the Joffrey Ballet and Virginia Johnson from San Francisco Ballet. She also performed as a guest artist throughout the country and in Guam National Republic. Toma has been teaching throughout the United States for over thirty five years and has been a ballet teacher at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School since 2002. She is an ABT Certified Teacher for Pre-Primary through Level 5 and an RYT200 Yoga instructor. Dance has been a passion and an artistic outlet for Toma and her entire family, including her husband and 3 daughters!