Caitlin Kinney

UPDATE from Nelson Diaz
February 2010

Congrats to my client and friend Caitlin Kinney for booking the opening piece for the Oscars!!

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AMTC’s Caitlin Kinney (Overall Dance Winner Summer 2008) made it to the Top 12 finalists on this season’s So You Think You Can Dance. Caitlin’s Mom, Elizabeth, said that the blessing in Caitlin being eliminated at this point might be that she was dancing on a torn ligament and a continuation without healing time might have caused serious injury. Caitlin will still get to go on the 50 city tour, and she is now famous world-wide.

Caitlin’s sister, Megan, was AMTC’s Overall Dance Winner the year before, and has one of our Most Watched Video’s as she shows how grace under pressure (continuing with technical difficulties) is the mark of a true professional and always wins both audience and judge acclaim!

For more info on Caitlin, see caitlinkinney.com

Caitlin’s Bio
At the age of 6 Caitlin began tumbling everywhere. After several years of successful gymnastics competition, at the age of 12, she discovered an acrobatics dance program at C&C Dance Company in Bowie, MD. A year later she enrolled in her first jazz class and her dance career began. At C&C Caitlin studied lyrical, jazz and acrobatics, winning numerous awards and titles on the competition circuit.

As a sophomore in high school Caitlin transferred to the Baltimore School for the Arts, entering the world of ballet for the first time. The following summer, under the tutelage of Elena Tchernichova at the Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory, she officially fell in love with ballet. Following a year and a half of intensive training at Nutmeg, she returned to BSA for her senior year to work with Norma Pera.

Upon graduation in 2005, Caitlin was asked to apprentice with North Carolina Dance Theatre under the direction of Jean Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride. She took time out that year to film the Disney movie “Step Up” in the role of the featured ballerina. In 2007 she was promoted to NCDT2, directed by Mark Diamond, and as a company member did residencies and performances in over 20 schools throughout North and South Carolina.

She has performed classically Petipa’s “La Bayadere” and “Paquita”, Balanchine’s “Rubies”, “Walpurgisnacht” and “Violin Concerto” and in many roles in many “Nutcrackers”. Caitlin found great joy in contemporary works by Twyla Tharp, Alvin Ailey, Dwight Roden, Mark Diamond and Barry Hughston which led her to the Uptown Dance Company in Houston, Texas in 2008.

She has just completed a music video/short film hybrid called “Broken”, directed by Scott Ellison, filmed in Houston in which she is featured as a dancer, passionate about her love of dance, a role she did not have to study for! Caitlin looks forward to continuing her training and exploring new and exciting opportunities to broaden her career.