Dance teacher Nicole Trafton.

Nicole Trafton’s love for dance began over 40 years ago with her first dance class at the age of three, where she has taken classes in ballet, pointe, jazz, lyrical, and clog. Ms. Nicole has competed and placed in PDTA’s Stars of Tomorrow and Dance Masters of America National Dance Competition in Birmingham, Orlando, Jekyll Island, and Biloxi. She has also attended numerous Summer Tour Workshops with Dance Caravan and has been invited to perform with Center Stages’ production “The King and I” and with Ballet South in “The Nutcracker”. Her dance teaching career began at Rebecca’s School of Dance where she taught from high school through college until she moved to Tallahassee. She is now in her eleventh year with Sharon Davis School of Dance, where she currently teaches ballet, tap, lyrical, and jazz. Ms. Nicole graduated from Florida State University with a double major in Accounting and Finance and is employed with Charles River CFO as an Accounting Manager. She is married to Josh Trafton and has one daughter, Madison Michelle and one son, Jonathan Dunn. Ms. Nicole truly believes that “Dancing with your feet is one thing but dancing with your heart is another.” ~Author unknown