Jaiden Morley

For the past 15 years of her life, Jaiden Morley has been training in ballet, choreographing, and teaching in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. She trained at the Otto M. Budig Cincinnati Ballet Academy for the first 10 years of her life, Le Jeune Dance Academy for 2 years and Beyond the Barre LLC for the last 2 years. She has been assistant teaching for as long as she can remember and has taught her own classes since she was 15 years old. Jaiden has a strong passion for teaching and for sharing her love of dance to the kids she teaches. 

Jaiden also has a strong passion for choreography. She has been choreographing full ballets for her ballet studio, Beyond the Barre, since she was 13 and also enjoys choreographing works in the contemporary style. Jaiden has choreographed works such as Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book, Finding Nemo, The Nutcracker, Peter Pan and pieces in Sleeping Beauty. 

Currently Jaiden is working on starting her professional career at Ballet West Academy with the Professional Training Division 3. She has previously performed principal roles such as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Sugar Plum Fairy and Rose in the Nutcracker, Mercedes in Don Quixote, and Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. She is working towards dancing for a ballet company in the future as a professional dancer and is very grateful and excited to be in Salt Lake City at Ballet West Academy.