Courtney Lyon

Courtney Lyon is the Artistic Director of Ballet Quad Cities and principal faculty member of Ballet Quad Cities School of Dance. She received early ballet training from Nathalie LeVine in St. Louis, MO, and earned her BFA with Honors in Dance from the University of Iowa, studying under Francoise Martinet, Susan Toumine, Edward Ellison, and Cherie Noble. She received additional training from the Joffrey Ballet School, Milwaukee Ballet, and private coach Arleen Sugano. As a principal faculty member of BQC School of Dance, she developed and implemented a syllabus for beginning through pre-professional ballet students. To support her teaching of classical ballet technique, Ms. Lyon completed two pedagogue courses that involved studying the 1st through 5th years of the Vaganova syllabus with John White, an authority on the Vaganova teaching method, and former dancer and Ballet master of the National Ballet of Cuba, as well as intensive training exploring the biomechanics of movement with physicist Kenneth Laws and master coach Arleen Sugano. Ms. Lyon participated in the Kennedy Center's Artists as Educators Seminars Laying a Foundation: Defining Arts Integration and Anatomy of a Lesson: Planning Instruction. She attended the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s Teacher Intensive workshop with Marcia Daly Weary and attended the Glenda Brown Choreography Project as a choreographer.  Ms. Lyon is also a RYT-200 Yoga Teacher.