Derryl yeager biography

Derryl Yeager

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US Tour 2 - 13/01/1985 - 30/11/1986 - Alonzo / Rumpus Cat (cover Rum Tum Tugger)

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Derryl Yeager went from principal dancer for Ballet West to A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls. Film credits include Staying Alive, Then the Heart Hits the Street and on television Hardcastle and McCormick and General Hospital. Derryl also performs his own nightclub act.

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Derryl Yeager is a dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Odyssey Dance Theatre in Salt Lake.

Yeager was raised in Amarillo, Texas, and started dancing in high school in the musical Camelot. The director of the show had a dance studio and told Yeager that he had an aptitude for movement. After a year of dance classes, he earned a summer scholarship at the San Francisco School of Ballet. On the way to San Francisco, he and a friend stopped in Salt Lake City and discovered Ballet West. After meeting William F. Christensen, he decided to go to the University of Utah and work with Ballet West. He started as an apprentice and stayed with the company for six years, eventually becoming a principal dancer.

He earned his BFA degree in performing arts and MFA degree in choreography from the University of Utah. He taught dance for a little over a year at Brigham Young University before he branched out into Broadway in New York City. He also performed theater in Los Angeles (for example, "Cats" for two years). While in LA he performed in movies, such as Staying Alive, and television shows, such as "Touched by an Angel", "Fame", "Moonlighting", and daytime drama including "Days of Our Lives," "The You