Kaelyn Cradle
Kaelyn Faith Cradle, a California-based Afro-Latina artist, is an energetic and fervent performer, choreographer, and teacher who has extensive experience performing in the communities of Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Nashville, Tennessee. Kaelyn has worked with the Viver Brasil Dance Company, Bernard Brown, Eric Stretch, Laura Ann Smyth, Tashara Gavin-Moorehead, Ardyn Flynt, Patrick Corbin, Marcella Lewis, Allison Little, and Disney Imagination Performing Arts. She has trained and performed with Joy Denver Spears, Bryan Rone, San Diego Ballet, Disneyland, Stage One Dance Studio, and Academy 831.
As an artist, Kaelyn enjoys crafting and performing pieces inspired by Modern, Musical Theater, Street styles, and Vernacular Jazz forms of dance. She has always admired the high-energy, athletic, and emotive nature of dance, and she is heavily inspired by the work of Kyle Abraham, Alvin Ailey, Garth Fagan, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Jerome Robbins, and Susan Stroman. Kaelyn focuses on the beautiful yet structured influence of Dunham, Limon, and Forsythe techniques, and has always embraced the challenge of using intricate props in her work. To include her passions for special education and business marketing, Kaelyn hopes to work with local non-profit organizations to support her endeavor of establishing an inclusive dance company and include a dance therapy program for people with disabilities. As a biracial female-identifying artist, Kaelyn strives to promote dance as a means for community and unity amongst all people, as she always presents authentic, real-life stories through her movement as a performer, choreographer, and dance educator.