Kiyomi Healey

INSTRUCTOR

Kiyomi started dancing at the age of 3. Her dance training includes Royal Academy of Dance Ballet, Jazz, Lyrical, Contemporary and Hip Hop. Kiyomi has successfully completed all of the Royal Academy of Dance Ballet examinations from Pre-Primary to Advanced 1.

During her training, Kiyomi had the pleasure of participating in trips to St. Petersburg, Russia and to New York City for dance. While in St. Petersburg, Kiyomi trained with the Marlinsky Ballet, one of the world's leading ballet companies and is also known as the Kirov Ballet. While there, Kiyomi took daily classes, including a Pas de Duex with principal dancers from the Mariinsky Ballet, Vagonava Ballet and Character Dance.

In her final year of training, Kiyomi joined fellow students and her teachers in travelling to New York City. There she received unforgettable dance training in Ballet, Contemporary, Broadway, and Jazz. Travelling and training abroad was a highlight of her dance training! Kiyomi is a certified Ballet Teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance.

Kiyomi has been teaching for the past 10 years in many styles including ballet, jazz and lyrical. For the past few years she has been focussing on choreography for competitions. Many of her students have received special awards at competitions. She looks forward to continuing to grow and share her love of dance with the students at YAA.

She aims to inspire and nurture a love of dance in all of her students.