Miss Sunny grew up on a local cattle ranch and studied dance in her teens with Marjorie Forney. She studied all forms of dance at Jacobs Pillow University of Dance in Lee, MA as a scholarship student in 1961 and 1962. She was accepted as a dance major at the University of Utah in 1962 and performed in their productions of Peter Pan and the Nutcracker. In 1964 she joined Ballet Repertory in New York City under the direction of Thalia Mara and Arthur Mahoney and also performed with Radio City Music Hall Ballet in 1965. In 1966, she went to Europe as a member of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
For local theater groups, Miss Sunny has choreographed Anything Goes, The Amorous Flea, Guys & Dolls and Calamity Jane. She has directed all of MainStreet Dance Studio's dance theater productions: Hansel & Gretel, Babes In Toyland, Alice In Wonderland, Beauty & The Beast, Sleeping Beauty, The Deliverer (Prince of Egypt), A Midsummer Nights Dream, Follow the Yellow Brick Road (Oz), Hadassah: A Story of Esther and The Greatest Gift of All (Nutcracker).
Miss Sunny is trained in the Vaganova ballet technique having studied three years at the National Academy of Ballet in New York with Thalia Mara. She has also studied with Nemtchinova, Swaboda, Heinz Poll, Yurek Lazowski, Leon Danielian, Richard & Barb Thomas, Phil Black, Luigi and other excellent dance teachers in New York and Europe. She continues to attend state and regional dance workshops and travels to New York and Mississippi to study dance and expose dance students to other teachers and dance forms. Miss Sunny, like most professionals, believes it is necessary for every dancer to be well trained in ballet to really become good in any dance style.