Michelle has been a certified Yoga Alliance instructor since 2008. Michelle currently teaches Vinyasa Flow, Hatha, and prenatal yoga classes at Austin Kula Yoga, Dancers Shape, and Ballet Austin's Butler Community School. She recently had the great pleasure to train under prenatal specialists Sue Elkind and Anna Verwaal. In addition, Michelle has taken advanced yoga training at Dharma Yoga, prenatal workshops with Meg O'Connell voted best Prenatal Yoga instructor by Austin Birth Awards, and birth classes with Chan McDermott. Michelle believes yoga is extremely beneficial in her life as a ballet dancer and as a mom, and she found it especially empowering during her pregnancy and birth.
Currently a professional ballerina with Ballet Austin, Michelle has made a home in Austin for the last ten years. She majored in Dance and The Humanities and graduated from St. Edward's University in December 2010. She has been a Lululemon Athletica ambassador and loves taking part in community outreach. Michelle has hosted multiple yoga benefits for the SafePlace Organization, led a Yoga for Dancers workshop at Austin Kula Yoga, and has taught children's yoga at the Active Life Movement Festival.
Spring 2012 Teaching Schedule
- Vinyasa Flow every Tuesday evening 8:15–9:15 PM
- Dancers Shape, 5350 Burnet Rd Suite 7
- Hip Hop Yoga every Thursday morning 7:00–8:00 AM
- Kula Yoga Center, 2415 Exposition Blvd Suites A & B
- Hip Hop Yoga every other Saturday morning 9:00–10:00 AM
- Prenatal Yoga every other Saturday morning 10:30–11:45 AM
- Kula Yoga Center, 2415 Exposition Blvd Suites A & B
- Vinyasa flow every Sunday afternoon 4:00–5:00 PM
- Kula Yoga Center, 2415 Exposition Blvd Suites A & B
Michelle, originally from San Francisco, trained at San Francisco Ballet for nine years. During her two years with Ballet Austin II she studied with Truman Finney and was privileged to perform in Ulysses Dove's Vespers. Now in her ninth season with Ballet Austin, Ms. Thompson has loved dancing in works by Steven Mills (silence within silence, Red Roses, Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project, Angel of My Nature, Kai), Gina Patterson (Free to Fly, Red Line, Liquid Eyes), Twyla Tharp, and Balanchine. She was thrilled to perform the role of Kitri in Don Quixote and Sugar Plum in The Nutcracker.
Upcoming shows with Ballet Austin
Romeo & Juliet
May 11-13, 2012
The Long Center
Choreography by Stephen Mills
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
The Taming of the Shrew
Oct 5-7, 2012
The Long Center
Choreography by Stephen Mills
Music by Antonio Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti, & Vincenzo Tommasini
The Nutcracker
Dec 8-23, 2012
The Long Center
Choreography by Stephen Mills
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
The Rite of Spring
Feb 15-17, 2013
The Long Center
Choreography by Stephen Mills
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Allegro Brillante
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Requiem for a Rose
Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Music by Franz Schubert
Cult of Color: Call to Color
The Art of Trenton Doyle Hancock
Mar 28-30 & Apr 4-7
AustinVentures StudioTheater
Choreography by Stephen Mills
Music by Graham Reynolds
Giselle
May 10-12
The Long Center
Choreography by Jean Coralli & Jules Perrot
Music by Adolphe Adam
- 2012
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- SoundSpace: Music and Dance
- Blanton Museum of Art
- 2011
- 2010
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- Hiding Places (review)
- Califa Arts Collaborative
- Salvage Vanguard Theater
- Waking From Recklessness
- Ballet Conservatory of South Texas
- Carver Center, San Antonio
- 2009
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- The Path You Came Here By
- Califa Arts Collaborative
- Austin Ventures Theater
- (i like you)
- Ballet Austin Trainees and Young Artists
- Austin Ventures Theater
- And Then We Were Seven
- Ballet Austin Trainees and Young Artists
- Austin Ventures Theater
- Night Departure
- Ballet Conservatory of South Texas
- Carver Center, San Antonio
- 2008
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- Coy
- Ballet Austin Young Artists
- Austin Ventures Studio
- Mi Corazon
- Ballet Conservatory of South Texas
- Luminaria: Arts Night in San Antonio
- 2007
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- The Look
- Wind
- Ballet Austin Students and Young Artists
- University of Texas Bass Concert Hall
- 2006
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- Garden Party
- Ballet Austin Trainees
- Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, 2006
- 2003
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- Forces
- Westlake School for the Performing Arts
- Daly City, California, 2003
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