Teaching Staff

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Melissa Snoen

Owner, Artistic Director

Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, and Tap Instructor

Artistic Director of PBRT, The Ballet Workshop's Youth Ballet Company

Miss Melissa is the Artistic Director of The Ballet Workshop and Plateau Ballet Repertory Theatre - our resident youth ballet company. A Dean’s list graduate from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ballet; she emphasized in teaching, performance, and character dance. She has additional studies in anatomy and kinesiology for dancers, health and nutrition, essentials of teaching ballet, and history of ballet. During college she trained and performed with the Utah Ballet Company – the elite ballet level at the University, under Victoria Stocki (Former soloist at Universal Ballet) and Jay Kim (Formal Principal with Universal Ballet and Korean National Ballet). She also spent three years in the Department of Ballet’s Character Dance Ensemble under the direction of Richard Wasko, selected to perform, travel abroad, and create outreach for young dancers. Post college she danced professionally with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Utah. She has over a decade of experience teaching at several different studios; over that time she has taught ballet, tap, jazz, and contemporary, and has choreographed and staged many numbers in all these styles and more. She has a deep passion for educating, teaching, choreographing, and for growing the arts in the community of Enumclaw.

Jessica Snoen

COO of The Ballet Workshop and PBRT

Tumbling Instructor

Miss Jess has been a part of the PBRT and Ballet Workshop team for the past five years creating sets and working the back stage for performances. This is Jess’s 2nd year co-owning PBRT as well as teaching tumbling. Outside of the dance world she remodels, stages, and manages properties and she enjoys getting to use those skills when creating the many sets and props for performances. Catch her backstage, behind the desk, on the dance floor helping pull every detail together, and everywhere in between.

Aubrie Arnold

Jazz and Contemporary Instructor

Aubrie Arnold is a recent graduate from Washington State University. She graduated from Enumclaw High School while being a member of PBRT throughout her teenage years. Miss. Aubrie has continued to take classes in Ballet, Jazz, and Contemporary throughout college as well as private lessons with Miami Dolphins Cheer Coach Natalie Chernow. Miss. Aubrie has choreographed numerous pieces for PBRT’s “The Nutcracker” and Mixed Repertory productions, and assisted with substitute and guest teaching/choreographing at the studio since 2020. Miss Aubrie is so excited to continue to share her passion and love for dance on a wider scale!

Alexis Mix

Tap Instructor

This is Miss Alexis’ fifth season teaching with The Ballet Workshop. Throughout her time as a student at TBW, she studied ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, contemporary and was also a member of Plateau Ballet Repertory Theatre. After graduating high school and with Highest Honors from Green River College with an Associate of Arts-DTA, she was given the opportunity to begin teaching at The Ballet Workshop. Since then, she has taught students of all ages in tap and ballet. She has choreographed for multiple PBRT and The Ballet Workshop productions, including "Alone Together", "Come Together", "Frozen", "Neverland", "Swan Lake and Mixed Repertory", and "Lion King". She has also continued to perform with The Ballet Workshop. Some of her roles include The Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland", Frau Drosselmeyer in "The Nutcracker", Oaken and Frykt in "Frozen", and Rothbart in "Swan Lake". She is passionate about giving back the knowledge she learned from her time at TBW to her students, and she is thankful for all her students, her wonderful co-workers and for the opportunity to do something she loves.

Zuko, Kovu, and Kenobi

Studio Mascots