Toni Pimble was born in England and studied at Elmhurst School of Ballet and Dramatic Arts and at the Royal Academy of Dancing in London. Her teachers included Bridget Espinoza, Patricia Brown, Merle Park and David Drew. As a professional dancer she performed with three ballet companies in Germany (Staatstheater Kiel, Bonn Stadtheater and the National Theater Mannheim) while performing leading roles in classical and contemporary ballets.

Since becoming artistic director and resident choreographer of the Eugene Ballet Company in 1978, Ms. Pimble has choreographed over 40 works for the Company. Many of those works have involved collaborations with composers, literary and visual artists which have received regional and national attention.

Ms. Pimble's creative work has brought her a number of awards and fellowships, including two Oregon Arts Commission Artist Fellowship awards and a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship Grant, as well as an Idaho Commission on the Arts choreographer Fellowship grant. Ms. Pimble choreographed a work titled Two's Company for the New York City Ballet as part of the Diamond Project in 1992. Her ballets have been presented all over the US including Common Ground, a collaboration with Emmy award-winning composer, James Oliverio for Atlanta Ballet. Alice in Wonderland was presented at the Kennedy Center for Washington Ballet, and Ms. Pimble has been invited to create contemporary ballets for Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. Last season Ms. Pimble presented the classic Shakespeare tale A Midsummer Night's Dream for Nevada Dance Theatre. Ms. Pimble has created educational programs to introduce students in public schools to ballet. These fifty minute programs include Punch and Friends based on the ballet Pulcinella, Alice in Wonderland and an inter-active educational program drawn from the 1987 work Children of the Raven, a ballet based on the myths and legends of the Pacific Northwest Indians.