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Alexis Salmen began her dance training at the Academy of Ballet at the age of seven.  Over her decades with Academy of Ballet she has studied with Linda Walker, Carolyn Haatainen-Wallace, Gary McKenzie, Sheri Giller, Deborah Kenner, Jeffrey Hughes, & Pamela Reyman-Hughes.  She has studied ballet at several intensive summer workshops with Academy of Ballet that included guest instructors Daniel Catanach and Anton
Labuschagne.  She was offered a partial tuition scholarship to Long Beach Ballet summer program and a full tuition scholarship to State Street Ballet in Santa Barbara, California.  Ms. Salmen was a member of Tucson Regional Ballet’s Senior Company from fall of 1997 through spring of 2002, and has participated in nineteen productions of A Southwest 
Nutcracker.

Ms. Salmen attended multiple Regional Dance America Festivals as a TRB Senior Company member.  The festivals included week-long intensive workshops with multiple daily master classes in ballet, jazz, and other dance styles, as well as nutrition, terminology, and character dancing.  Highlights of this instruction were choreology taught by Richard Holden and jazz taught by Alonzo King.  She performed with TRB’s Senior Company for RDA adjudications from 1998 to 2002.  Dances were set on her by Daniel Catanach, Anton Labuschagne, Jon Cristofori, & Carolyn Wallace.  She also performed with TRB’s Senior Company at the invitational Festival Gala Night and two RDA Festivals.

Ms. Salmen began her training to become a dance teacher when she was a
teaching assistant with Academy of Ballet from fall of 1994 through spring of 2002.  She also stepped in as a substitute teacher for Academy
of Ballet from the fall of 1999 through the spring of 2003.  She returned to teaching for Academy of Ballet in March of 2016, teaching
dancers three years old through advanced pointe.  In the fall of 2018, Alexis took on the role of Rehearsal & Staging Assistant to Linda
Walker, assisting in staging and rehearsals for A Southwest Nutcracker and TRB’s Spring Spectacular.  In fall 2019 she accepted the further responsibility of Rehearsal/Staging Director and Ballet Mistress for TRB under the artistic direction of Brittany DeGrofft. In fall of 2022 Alexis took on the responsibilities of Interim Artistic Director as well as teaching all levels of ballet, tap, jazz and conditioning for Tucson Regional Ballet. 

Daly Foncree was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. As a studio dancer, Daly enjoyed exploring a variety of dance styles, primarily ballet. Daly was a very successful soloist, accomplishing the title of “Miss Dance of Tennessee” and competing at national dance competitions all over the US. In college, Daly danced for the nationally accredited Pom squad at The University of Memphis. After graduation, Daly went on to start her own creative dance company in Hernando Mississippi where she personally choreographed, costumed, and directed Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”. Throughout over a decade of dance instruction, Miss Daly has been awarded over a dozen choreography accolades. Daly’s dancers have gone on to dance professionally on cruise ships, college and NBA dance teams. Daly now finds herself in Tucson Arizona, loving the sunshine and bandalooping on Mount Lemmon.