Jean Kelley
Adjunct Faculty
Department: Performing Arts
Contact Information
Campus: Main
Email: [email protected]
Bio
Biography
Jean Kelley was born and raised in Arizona and began dancing at a local studio as a young child. She spent her childhood studying various dance styles, competing with her studio, and performing with her high school pom team. In college, Jean studied jazz and tap at the University of Arizona, and ballet and modern at Arizona State University, obtaining her B.F.A. in Performance Dance in 2006. Upon completion of her degree, she joined a local contemporary dance company called CONDER/dance for three seasons where she had the privilege to dance in the Camai Dance Festival in Bethel, Alaska and the W.A.V.E Rising Series in Brooklyn, New York among many other local shows and venues, including Breaking Ground. She has worked with many artists over the years, dancing with A Ludwig Dance Theater, Mary Fitzgerald Dance, Karen Schupp, Wight Noise Dance Company, Sara Malan-McDonald, Treeline Dance Works, and Tap 24.7. In 2008, Jean became certified in Group Fitness and Personal Training from Glendale Community College and has been teaching fitness and various dance classes around the valley since the completion of her certificates. She has been serving as adjunct faculty at Glendale Community College since 2017, where she teaches technique classes in ballet, jazz, modern, and tap and choreographs on their resident dance company VERVE.