Known as one of the most energetic and inspiring teachers across the country, Thom Clower's "evangelistic" approach to teaching has touched the lives and careers of dancers across the country for 30 years. With extensive training in the Vaganova, Balanchine, Cecchetti, and Bournonville styles, Mr. Clower combines the qualities of each one to present a technique that is true and versatile.

Making his stage debut at the age of 6, Mr. Clower began his professional training with George Skibine and Marjorie Tallchief at the Dallas Civic Ballet in 1968. He received a Ford Foundation Scholarship to the School of American Ballet in New York for two consecutive years, and also studied in Paris, Amsterdam, and London. Beginning his teaching career in 1974, he joined Dallas Ballet in 1978 where he spent eleven seasons with the company under Mr. Skibine and Flemming Flindt, and served as assistant Ballet Master for Dallas Ballet's 1980 South American tour.

As Ballet Master, Mr. Clower assisted Flindt in staging his full-length NUTCRACKER, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, and PHAEDRA, and personally administrated the staging of Alvin Ailey's THE RIVER, John Cranko's JEU DE CARTES, Jeri Kylian's ENGULFED CATHERDRAL, Fokine's PRINCE IGOR and LES SYLPHIDES, and many others.

Mr. Clower served as Founding Artistic Director of Ballet Dallas and its’ affiliate school, the Dallas Conservatory of Ballet. Under his direction, Ballet Dallas was the resident professional Ballet Company for the Dallas area for 8 years. Mr. Clower also served as Ballet Master for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In this capacity, he was primary teacher for the company, and rehearsal director for works by Twyla Tharp, Nacho Duato, Daniel Ezerlow, and Kevin O'Day. Mr. Clower then served four seasons as Artistic Director of Yuma Ballet Theatre, and Ballet Master of its affiliate school, Dancers Workshop.

As a representative of the George Skibine Trust, Mr. Clower helps maintain the integrity of Mr. Skibine's ballets, staging them across the country. He served on selection panels for the City of Dallas, Tarrant County, and both the Texas and Arizona Commission on the Arts Peer Review Panels. He was awarded the prestigious Legacy Award for Achievement in the Arts by the Dallas Dance Council in 2000, and placed in the Yuma Ballet Theatre's Hall of Fame in 2005.

Believing very strongly in Regional Dance America, Mr. Clower has served as the Director of Ballet at numerous RDA Craft of Choreography Conferences. He has been a guest teacher for Regional Festivals since 1992, was a guest teacher at the National Festival both in 1997 and 2007, and has proudly served in the capacity of Adjudicator for the RDA Festivals. He has served as Director of Ballet at the Glenda Brown Choreography Project numerous times.

Mr. Clower has staged and created ballets for companies all over the United States. He has also worked with many opera companies, including the Santa Fe Opera, the Dallas Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Dallas. All over the world, companies have performed his choreography.

Since 2001 Thom Clower has worked around the world as a freelance master teacher and choreographer. His work has included regional companies and schools, and professional companies such as Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Atlanta Ballet. He has been a guest teacher at Broadway Dance Center, as Associate Ballet Master for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and serves annually as Ballet Master for Young Tanzsommer! in Austria. He joined the faculty of Allegro Ballet of Houston in the fall of 2009.