Toby's School of Dance
Toby's School of Dance, 635 W Campbell Rd #224, Suite 224, Richardson, TX 75080
About
Toby's School of Dance offers classes in ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, tap, and jazz. Each class is structured as a 45 Minute Class. The studio features refreshed and updated interiors, including a new “best available” sprung floor in the tap room and a sprung-wood tap floor installation.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: 45 Minute Class
• Price: 45 Minute Class Starting At Only $92*
Toby's School of Dance was established in 1959, and since 1959 thousands of boys and girls have learned, performed, and danced there. In 2016, Sally and Don Andriot became the new owners and directors of Toby’s. The program is the home of the RFAC Dance Rep, offers dance classes for all ages from beginner to professional as well as adult classes, adds new classes based on interest and demand, has an expanded spring recital with a theme, and includes new junior and senior performing companies with exciting performance opportunities for all students.
The leadership team includes Sally Andriot as Artistic Director and Owner, Don Andriot as Business Manager and Owner, and Rosie Chrasta as Office Manager. The mission states that the Andriots’ vision is to offer students proper and recognized theoretical dance techniques, exciting performance opportunities, and a nurturing, wholesome and fun environment, with professional training and an emphasis on proper technique.
Artistic Director and Owner Sally Andriot graduated from the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, began her professional dancing career with the Cincinnati Ballet at age 19 while attending college, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from the University of Cincinnati. She continued her professional dancing career with the Boston Ballet Company and the Dallas Ballet Company, is a founding member of the Collin Dance Consortium, and has served as Ballet Director of International Ballet Theater and Technical Director of Epiphany Dance Arts Performing Company. She has over 30 years of experience teaching dance in the D/FW area, including private lessons and coaching for ballet competitions, has guest taught ballet for the Dallas Youth Repertory Project for two years, and has been a guest teacher at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas. Many of her former students have gone on to professional careers in the performing arts and to pursue fine arts degrees in college dance programs across the country, and she is recently certified in all levels of Progressing Ballet Technique.
Business Manager and Owner Don Andriot is a Project Manager by day and serves as Toby’s Business Manager and resident jack-of-all-trades, and he created the sprung-wood tap floor installation at Toby’s. Office Manager Rosie Chrasta received her Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Global Studies from Belhaven University, supplemented her studies with Arts Administration and Communications courses, and worked for the Mississippi Arts Commission assisting the event manager in producing the annual Governor’s Arts Awards event. Her experience includes studying abroad in Oxford, England, participating in a global service-learning practicum in Sofia, Bulgaria with Creative Arts Europe, and training in writing, piano, theater, visual arts, photography, ballet, modern, figure and synchronized skating, and gymnastics.
Instructor Lauren Davis has a BFA in Commercial Dance from Hussian College Los Angeles: In Studio and trains in ballet, acro, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, modern, ballroom, jazz funk, and tap. She grew up with a strong concert dance background before transitioning to competition dance and the commercial side of the industry, teaches at several studios in the DFW area, recently performed in the State Fair of Texas’ “Illumination Sensation,” and performed as a guest artist for Destiny Dance Devoted, portraying the Sugar Plum Fairy. Instructor Stephanie Eggers is from Kildeer, Illinois, grew up training at Barrington Dance Academy, and attended summer programs with Chicago Repertory Ballet, Ballet West, and Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2022 with a BFA in Ballet Performance, a BS in Biology with Honors, and a Minor in Psychology, and has performed in works including Falling Angels by Jiří Kylián, Sleeping Beauty’s Pas de Trois, Near Light by Tommie-Waheed Evans, Viva Vivaldi by Gerald Arpino, Signature by Price Suddarth, the Doll in Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker, and I Rise by Amy Hall Garner. She danced as a soloist in Ballet Vermont’s Farm to Ballet Project in 2021 and as a principal in 2022, served as lead counselor in several ballet camps for Ballet Vermont and Spotlight Vermont Dance Studio, and after graduating danced with Ballet Quad Cities for two seasons while teaching creative movement, pre-ballet, modern, jazz, ballet, and pointe at the Bettendorf Family Museum, and performed with Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance in Heather Maloy’s world premiere of Cleopatra in 2023.
Toby’s School of Dance received the “Best of Reader’s Choice” award from Living Magazine in 2016. One parent, Allison, states that her daughter loves taking dance at Toby’s and that the teachers there bring out the inner dancer in everyone, and that her daughter’s dance skills have blossomed with encouragement from the teachers. Another parent, Rikki, states that the staff at Toby’s treat her daughter like family and that her daughter has learned a lot from the knowledgeable and experienced instructors. A third parent, Rhonda Thomas-Florimbi, describes Ms. Sally as nurturing and professional while also expecting a lot from her dancers, and says that Ms. Sally teaches her students many life lessons as they grow in their dancing abilities.
Last updated February 2, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: 45 Minute Class
• Price: 45 Minute Class Starting At Only $92*
Toby's School of Dance was established in 1959, and since 1959 thousands of boys and girls have learned, performed, and danced there. In 2016, Sally and Don Andriot became the new owners and directors of Toby’s. The program is the home of the RFAC Dance Rep, offers dance classes for all ages from beginner to professional as well as adult classes, adds new classes based on interest and demand, has an expanded spring recital with a theme, and includes new junior and senior performing companies with exciting performance opportunities for all students.
The leadership team includes Sally Andriot as Artistic Director and Owner, Don Andriot as Business Manager and Owner, and Rosie Chrasta as Office Manager. The mission states that the Andriots’ vision is to offer students proper and recognized theoretical dance techniques, exciting performance opportunities, and a nurturing, wholesome and fun environment, with professional training and an emphasis on proper technique.
Artistic Director and Owner Sally Andriot graduated from the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, began her professional dancing career with the Cincinnati Ballet at age 19 while attending college, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from the University of Cincinnati. She continued her professional dancing career with the Boston Ballet Company and the Dallas Ballet Company, is a founding member of the Collin Dance Consortium, and has served as Ballet Director of International Ballet Theater and Technical Director of Epiphany Dance Arts Performing Company. She has over 30 years of experience teaching dance in the D/FW area, including private lessons and coaching for ballet competitions, has guest taught ballet for the Dallas Youth Repertory Project for two years, and has been a guest teacher at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas. Many of her former students have gone on to professional careers in the performing arts and to pursue fine arts degrees in college dance programs across the country, and she is recently certified in all levels of Progressing Ballet Technique.
Business Manager and Owner Don Andriot is a Project Manager by day and serves as Toby’s Business Manager and resident jack-of-all-trades, and he created the sprung-wood tap floor installation at Toby’s. Office Manager Rosie Chrasta received her Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Global Studies from Belhaven University, supplemented her studies with Arts Administration and Communications courses, and worked for the Mississippi Arts Commission assisting the event manager in producing the annual Governor’s Arts Awards event. Her experience includes studying abroad in Oxford, England, participating in a global service-learning practicum in Sofia, Bulgaria with Creative Arts Europe, and training in writing, piano, theater, visual arts, photography, ballet, modern, figure and synchronized skating, and gymnastics.
Instructor Lauren Davis has a BFA in Commercial Dance from Hussian College Los Angeles: In Studio and trains in ballet, acro, jazz, hip hop, contemporary, modern, ballroom, jazz funk, and tap. She grew up with a strong concert dance background before transitioning to competition dance and the commercial side of the industry, teaches at several studios in the DFW area, recently performed in the State Fair of Texas’ “Illumination Sensation,” and performed as a guest artist for Destiny Dance Devoted, portraying the Sugar Plum Fairy. Instructor Stephanie Eggers is from Kildeer, Illinois, grew up training at Barrington Dance Academy, and attended summer programs with Chicago Repertory Ballet, Ballet West, and Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2022 with a BFA in Ballet Performance, a BS in Biology with Honors, and a Minor in Psychology, and has performed in works including Falling Angels by Jiří Kylián, Sleeping Beauty’s Pas de Trois, Near Light by Tommie-Waheed Evans, Viva Vivaldi by Gerald Arpino, Signature by Price Suddarth, the Doll in Willam Christensen’s The Nutcracker, and I Rise by Amy Hall Garner. She danced as a soloist in Ballet Vermont’s Farm to Ballet Project in 2021 and as a principal in 2022, served as lead counselor in several ballet camps for Ballet Vermont and Spotlight Vermont Dance Studio, and after graduating danced with Ballet Quad Cities for two seasons while teaching creative movement, pre-ballet, modern, jazz, ballet, and pointe at the Bettendorf Family Museum, and performed with Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance in Heather Maloy’s world premiere of Cleopatra in 2023.
Toby’s School of Dance received the “Best of Reader’s Choice” award from Living Magazine in 2016. One parent, Allison, states that her daughter loves taking dance at Toby’s and that the teachers there bring out the inner dancer in everyone, and that her daughter’s dance skills have blossomed with encouragement from the teachers. Another parent, Rikki, states that the staff at Toby’s treat her daughter like family and that her daughter has learned a lot from the knowledgeable and experienced instructors. A third parent, Rhonda Thomas-Florimbi, describes Ms. Sally as nurturing and professional while also expecting a lot from her dancers, and says that Ms. Sally teaches her students many life lessons as they grow in their dancing abilities.
Last updated February 2, 2026.
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