Miss Crystal
Crystal Taylor born in Honolulu, Hawaii received both her Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in Ballet and Master of Education degree in Secondary Dance Education
from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

She began her classical ballet training in Germany. In the United States, Crystal
continued her early training at the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet School then
later with Fernando Schaffenburg at Schaffenburg Ballet Academy in Fort
Worth, Texas. In addition, her training includes international studies at the London
Contemporary Dance School, and the Richard Alston Dance Company in
London, England. She has also participated in the Glenda Brown Choreography
project as a choreographer and attended a professional dance workshop in San
Francisco Dance Centre.

Crystal has worked and/or studied with such artists as Debrah Bale, Maria
Brolin-Tani (Skanes Dansteater), Tom Clower, Mary Cochran (Paul Taylor
Dance Company), Todd Edson, Titas Fatso, Espen Giljane (Norwegian
National Ballet), General McArthur Hambrick, Christian Von Howard, Alonso
King (LINES Ballet), John Landovsky (Hawaii State Ballet), Eduardo Lao
(Victor Ullate Ballet), Vladimir Malakhov (Staatsballet Berlin), Margaret
Mercier-Wolf, Robert Moses, Ramon Oller (Metros Dansa), Lisa Owen, Andy
Parkhurst, Ben Stevenson (Texas Ballet Theater), Sharon Story (Atlanta
Ballet), and Victor Ullate.  While at TCU, Crystal has performed works by
faculty members Li-Chou Cheng, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Kerry Kriemen, Dr. Keitha
Manning, and the late Fernando Bujones.

She has danced professionally with Andrews Dance Company, Ballet Concerto,  
Commedia Ballet Theater, Contemporary Ballet Dallas, New World Ballet,
North Texas Ballet Theatre, and Skånes Dansteatr in Sweden.  She currently
dances with Contemporary Dance/Fort worth.

Crystal has taught at the Swedish National Ballet School in Malmö, Sweden as
well as at various dance studios in the Dallas/ Fort Worth metroplex.  She currently
teaches ballroom dance to 5th grade students through Dance Classrooms North
Texas program and ballet and Southlake Dance Academy.