Elysha Black grew up in the Salt Lake Valley and first Love was Dancing. She started Dance from the age of 6 and in her youth was part of a singing and dancing performing group that traveled, performed, and competed all over the country. In High School she was on the Drill Team and was a Dance Company Officer. As a teenager, she was selected as a ‘sweetheart’ at a Dance Competition where she was able to represent Utah in a National show and train under well known choreographers. In College, she trained under many well known teachers at the University of Utah and attended frequent classes every year at The Edge Studio in LA and Broadway Dance Center in New York. She later went on to create a professional Dance Performing group called ‘Sojourn’ that performed for various well known performing artists and at many local events. She was on O2, a junior company for Odyssey Dance Theatre where she was hired for side performance work for ODT and performed yearly in ‘Thriller’.

She has taught dance technique and choreographed at various studios in Salt Lake and Park City for over 15 years, winning multiple high score awards with her choreography. Movement has always been a big part of her life as she has also taught other various forms of exercise from Dance Cardo, TurboKick, has a red-black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a Certified Yoga Teacher.

Off the Dance Floor, she is a Mother of 2, lives in Mountain Green where she loves to hike, ski, concerts and works as a Wedding Planner for Michelle Leo Events.