Kay Kenney

Kay Kenney is a professional contemporary dance artist, choreographer and teacher based in Kingston, ON.  Kay's professional dance career has led her to work, teach, create, and perform across Ontario, Quebec, and Europe, working with youth, pre-professional, emerging and professional artists. Over the last decade she has collaborated with artists Yvonne Coutts (Ottawa Dance Directive), Riley Sims (Social Growl Dance), Tedd Robinson, Chick Snipper, Andrew Turner, Mélanie Dermers (MAYDAY Danse), Harold Rhéaume, Jocelyn Todd, Jesse Stewart, Andrea Nann, Peggy Baker Dance Projects, and others.

Kay's passion for dance education led her to her placement as the Artistic Director of the Kingston School of Dance, located in the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, and has had numerous teaching residencies in elementary schools, high schools, and post-secondary programming to better educate staff on how to incorporate movement into their teaching practices.  Kenney founded the Movement Market Collective, a group of pre-professional and professional artists that come together to support and celebrate local, professional dance in Kingston, and is the Director for Kingston's only professional dance festival, the Ground UP Dance Festival.

In 2019 she was selected as a Youth Arts Ambassador representing Ontario Culture Days and was a recipient of the 2020 Kingston Mayor's Arts Award. Most recently, was awarded for Best Dance Film in the Shortwave Film Festival in Munich, Germany and has collaborated with amazing local festivals, such as The Skeleton Park Arts Festival, The Reel Out Queer Film Festival, The Juvenis Festival, The Kick & Push Festival, AnArch Theatre, The Cellar Door Project, Calliope Collective, and many other talented independent artists in YGK.

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