Kellyn Mylechreest is a dancer, choreographer, movement educator, writer and researcher based in NYC & NJ. She holds her M.F.A. in Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Kellyn serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance at Queens College, Queensborough Community College, and Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and serves as the Dance Program Coordinator for Morningside DanceWorX at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a performer and choreographer, Kellyn has worked with companies such as Twyla Tharp, Linked Dance Theatre, Houseworld Immersive, Blue Morph Collective, City Lyric Opera, FIT Dance Company, Second Avenue Dance Company, RAVE Theatre Festival, NACHMO Film Fest, and more. Additionally, she has had the honor to perform works by Ohad Naharin, Lucinda Childs, Lar Lubovitch, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Ori Flomin, Betsy Coker, Mariel Pettee and more. As an educator, she has worked as a teaching artist with New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey’s Arts in Education programming, and internationally with the Salvation Army. Kellyn’s work spans across various populations of dancers and has influenced her development and writing of two dance curriculums entitled “The Dance Collective,” and the “KéKay Method.” Both of these curriculums are year-long ballet and creative arts curricula for students within studio and after-school programming contexts. She is currently a doctoral student in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University where her research investigates power dynamics in dance training spaces, and how to utilize holistic and trauma-informed dance pedagogy, to create healthier dancers of body and mind.