Toby's School of Dance

Toby's School of Dance offers classes in ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, tap, jazz, and contemporary/lyrical. Each class is structured as a 45 minute class.

• Ages: 3–18 years old
• Schedule: 45 minute class sessions
• Price: 45 Minute Class Starting At Only $92*

Toby’s was established in 1959 as one of the first performing dance studios in the Richardson/Plano area. The program is the home of the RFAC Dance Rep and offers dance classes for all ages from beginner to professional, as well as adult classes. Toby’s features a new “best available” sprung floor in the tap room and a sprung-wood tap floor installation, and it holds an expanded spring recital with a theme, along with new junior and senior performing companies and exciting performance opportunities for all students.

The leadership team includes Artistic Director/Owner Sally Andriot, Business Manager/Owner Don Andriot, and Office Manager Rosie Chrasta. The stated mission is professional training with emphasis on proper technique, with a vision to offer students proper and recognized theoretical dance techniques, exciting performance opportunities, and a nurturing, wholesome and fun environment. Toby’s received the “Best of Reader’s Choice” award from Living Magazine in 2016.

Artistic Director/Owner Sally Andriot graduated from the Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts and began her professional dancing career with the Cincinnati Ballet at age 19 while attending college. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from the University of Cincinnati and continued her professional career with the Boston Ballet Company and the Dallas Ballet Company. She is a founding member of the Collin Dance Consortium, has served as Ballet Director of International Ballet Theater and Technical Director of Epiphany Dance Arts Performing Company, and has over 30 years of experience teaching dance in the D/FW area, including private lessons and coaching for ballet competitions. She has guest taught ballet for the Dallas Youth Repertory Project for two years, has been a guest teacher at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas, and is certified in all levels of Progressing Ballet Technique. 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.

Business Manager/Owner Don Andriot works as a Project Manager and serves as Toby’s Business Manager and resident jack-of-all-trades, and he installed the sprung-wood tap floor 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 background 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, 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. She also performed with Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance in Heather Maloy’s world premiere of her ballet Cleopatra in 2023.

Parent feedback includes comments such as, “Our daughter loves taking dance at Toby's. The teachers there bring out the inner dancer in us all. Our daughter's dance skills have blossomed while at Toby's. The teachers give the dancers such encouragement,” from Allison. Another parent, Rikki, states, “The staff at Toby's treat our daughter like family. She has learned so much from the knowledgeable and experienced instructors.” A third parent, Rhonda Thomas-Florimbi, shares, “Ms. Sally has been an exceptional teacher for my daughter. She's nurturing and professional, while also expecting a lot from her dancers. She teaches her students many life lessons as they grow in their dancing abilities. A brilliant teacher!”

Last updated July 24, 2026.