Prescott dance school

Danielle Kelly

Dance Instructor

Danielle started dancing at the Betty Jane Turner School of Dance in Connecticut, where she studied for 15 years and became well-versed in tap, jazz, ballet, hip hop, and lyrical.

She attended the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, a magnet arts high school in Hartford, CT where she majored in Creative Writing and began taking rhythm tap, modern, African, and swing dance. After graduating high school in 2006, Danielle attended Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where she started the college’s first ever Dance Team and was the Director and main choreographer for two years. She taught tap, modern, hip hop, and musical performance.

In 2008, Danielle transferred to Prescott College where she is now finishing her degree in Expressive Transformation, which focuses on dance and creative writing as expressive healing tools. At Prescott College she has built her dance vocabulary in Contact Improvisation, Butoh, Authentic Movement, Contemporary Dance and Performance Technique, and will be co-teaching a course titled Choreography in the Community starting in the Spring semester. She is passionate about teaching dance using intuition and the multiple intelligences, and believes that the balance between technique and improvisation can enhance a dancer’s capacity to dance.

Danielle teaches the following classes

• Modern