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Kayley Thompson
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Kayley has been dancing since the age of five and trained for 13 years at Royal Dance Works, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary, hip hop, and musical theater. She has trained with and taken master classes from renowned choreographers and teachers including Mia Michaels, Jackie Sleight, Justin Giles, Doug Caldwell, Jaci Royal, Wes Veldink, Logan Lipton, Roberto Villanueva, Alex Ketley, Michael Williams, Mike Esperanza, Sasha Mallory, and Danielle Horn, among others.

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In 2012, Kayley graduated from Glendale Community College with both an Associate of Arts and an Associate of Fine Arts in Dance. While in GCC’s dance program, she earned multiple awards for her choreography at MCC’s Artist of Promise competition (2009–2013), including first, second, third place, and honorable mention. Her work has been showcased at Center Dance Ensemble’s American Voices, Phx Dance Show, ShowMe Showcase, AZ Dance Festival, Scorpius’ Kick-A Showcase, and the Chandler Live Series at Chandler Center for the Arts.

Kayley has also performed as a dancer, actor, and choreographer in musicals for GCC and in the PUSD faculty/alumni shows. In 2015, she earned her BFA in Dance Education from Grand Canyon University. In addition to teaching and choreographing, her creative interests extend to acting and filmmaking.

Currently, Kayley is on faculty at Limitless Dance, where she teaches tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, acro, hip hop, ballet, and pointe. She has also taught at Elite Dance Academy and Invictus Dance Project. In 2016, she founded her own company, ClassicalFusionDance, with the vision of telling stories by blending her love of classic film, music, and choreographic styles with a modern perspective.

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