 Her ballet center performed at the Magoffin Auditorium in 1958, where E. A. Thromodsgaard, the chair of the music department at Texas Western College, which later became the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), was impressed by her.Heuser joined UTEP in 1960.The Texas Western Civic Ballet began performing annually in 1960 with Heuser as the leader of the company.