Erin Arbuckle

Erin Scott Arbuckle received her training from The California Ballet School, before relocating to NYC to study on scholarship at School of American Ballet. After graduation she continued her training at Peridance, Steps on Broadway, and Ballet Arts at NY City Center. She has danced professionally with  California Ballet Company, Columbia Ballet Collaborative, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Ballet Next, Jeremy McQueen’s Black Iris Project, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Eglevsky Ballet, Ballet Popular, LLMoves, and Emery LeCrone Dance.  She also had the privilege of dancing in performance art pieces staged at NYC’s MoMA PS1 and Open Market.  

She served as a rehearsal assistant for Emery LeCrone during her 2017 Joyce Theatre Residency, company class and audition instructor for Columbia Ballet Collaborative, and assisted in staging choreography and teaching masterclasses with LLMoves during their tour to Campeche, Mexico.  While working as a dancer in NYC, she graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology.  Outside of the dance studio, she found her second passion in running and has completed many marathons and ultra marathons. She currently serves as Ballet Academy Assistant Artistic Director at West Coast Dance Complex.