Faculty Bio - Kellyn Mylechreest

Kellyn Mylechreest (she/her)

Email: kellyn.mylechreest@qcc.cuny.edu

Kellyn Mylechreest (Adjunct Assistant Professor) teaches Introduction to the Art of Dance. She is a New York City and Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, dance researcher, immersive performance artist, and movement educator. Kellyn is a Doctoral Student in Dance Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and 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.

As a dancer, she has had the opportunity to perform works by Ohad Naharin, Lar Lubovitch, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Ori Flomin, Betsy Coker, and Mariel Pettee. She has worked with companies such as Twyla Tharp, Linked Dance Theatre, Houseworld Immersive, and Blue Morph Collective, and her choreography has been featured on companies such as City Lyric Opera, FIT Dance Company, CAST, Second Ave Dance Co., Rave Theater Festival, NACHMO film festival and more.

As an educator, Kellyn currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance at Queens College and QCC and is the Program Coordinator for Morningside Dance WorX at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has previously worked as a teaching artist with New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey’s Arts in Education Programs and as the Dance Company Director at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology. She has written an accessible ballet curriculum entitled “The Dance Collective,” and her creative and academic research is focused on challenging harmful bodily stereotypes within the dance industry, and strives to make dance education a more inclusive, diverse, and safe space for students everywhere.