LoRee Kenagy, Instructor/Choreographer
Years of Teaching Experience: 8
Years of Dance Experience: 21
“We have art n order not to die of the truth,” Frieddrich Nietzsche
“My goal is to work for the future, while staying in the present.”
LoRee is a dancer/choreographer with a diverse movement background. In her youth, she trained with Lisa Clark, a regionally acclaimed youth teacher and choreographer. At 17, she continued on to train professionally, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from the top-tiered program at the University of Arizona in 2004.
Comfortable in the genres of modern, jazz, hip-hop, and tap, she dreams of movement that fuses these disparate forms. As a student choreographer, her often-idiosyncratic work was featured in University of Arizona faculty concerts, reviewed and praised by esteemed faculty, donors and administration. After graduation, LoRee returned to the Bay Area to continue her dance career.
Over the past seven years, she’s been sent out weekly on agency work through the San Francisco hip-hop dance and modeling agency, “La Femme Panache.” In addition, she maintains a seasonal position on several local companies including, Moving Arts Dance, Sarah Bush Dance Project, The Fundamentals, Bill Hopkins Rockin Orchestra, and our own, Bay Area Dance Company.
Dabbling in musical theatre, her work has been seen at various productions at Contra Costa Civic Theatre and Solano College Theatre. Other credits include: Season 1 regional finalist for “So You Think You Can Dance”, Motion-Capture artist, video: “This is the Life”, and corporate dancer for international conferences-Fidelity, Oracle, Cisco, and Microsoft.
She recently left her five-year position as Jazz Program Director at Westlake School of the Arts in Daly City, to come on full-time for Tiffany’s Dance Academy. Few are fortunate enough to love what they do, even fewer to do what they love. LoRee hopes to inspire her students to expect nothing less.
Her favorite dance moment was her last performance at the University of Arizona.
