Kelly White, Director of Education
The former Director of Fine and Performing Arts at Young Audiences Upper School, Kelly White was born and raised in New Orleans. She is a second-generation educator, performer, choreographer, and researcher with a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Southern Mississippi and a M.A. in Dance Education from New York University. She is also the mother to a bright and beautiful daughter named Morgan.
She has studied with a variety of esteemed teachers including, Jean Leon Destine, and Aussettua Amor Amenkum, as well as trained and performed at Plaza Cuba, New Waves Trinidad, and Jacob’s Pillow, and with such groups as Ase Dance Theater Collective, Kumbuka African Drum and Dance Collective, and Nia Love’s Blacksmith’s Daughter.
Her choreography has been performed in venues and productions such as Dance Africa, Feast: A Yoruba Project, and Voices of Congo Square New Orleans where she also served as the Associate Director. Kelly co-founded and is the Director of EVOLVE Diaspora where she creates weekend intensives, cultural immersion trips, and community classes for professional dancers, researchers, scholars and educators to intensely study dances of the African Diaspora
