Jett Marie Bigler

Full time dance instruction with renowned local studio SMASH Dance Academy (SDA), a Utah youth dance studio for pre-professional track dancers with a collegiate or professional level career path. SDA Instructors teach ABT's National Training Curriculum and including former Brigham Young University Ballet Company and Broadway career performers (Summerisa Bell Stevens).

• Completing 12 years full time dance education at SDA
• Developed strong technical skills through dedication to dance curriculum in Contemporary, Jazz, Ballet, Pointe, Hip Hop, Broadway, Leaps & Turns & Style & Performance.
• Completing second year of SDA's "Pro Track" advanced accelerated division, achieved fall 2022
• Pointe: Two years pre-pointe (2020-2022), Two Years Point (2022-2024)
• 11 years performance - SDA Annual Spring Recital
• 3 years performance - SDA "Clara and the Nutcracker", including "Snow" piece on pointe 2023.
• “Revive” Dance Convention attendance 2 years.
• SDA Service Scholarship Program: Earned scholarship for academy tuition with over 200 service hours to 501(c)(3)'s in my community.

Won selection for Timpview High School Dance Company (5A High School) as early-entry freshman. Competed against 120 other dancers for 5 open position among 13 returning dancers as 1 of 3 freshman.

• All School Football, Basketball Game half-time performances
• Winter & Spring Concert Recitals
• Taught and Choreographed elementary school children (5th & 6th grade) in 3-day clinic at Timpview Dance Company Junior Clinic.

Currently taking private ballet and pointe instruction from Smash Dance Academy Assistant Director Rachel Robison (ABT, Wasatch Contemporary Dance Company), under the ABT National Training Curriculum.

I continue to earn tuition reimbursements for dance academy tuition through SDA's scholarship program donating 100 service hours per year to 501(c)(3)'s in my local community. This represents my commitment level to my dance career and to my community.

• Service types include service at Fourth of July events, food bank meal preparation, programs for the United Way, Child Abuse Prevention, Forster Care Programs "Chalk it Up" fundraiser and more.
• Taught dance classes to underprivileged elementary school children in Utah County Community Centers with the United Way.