Kelly Sweeney Dance Educator

Kelly is a Mexican-American dancer, teacher and choreographer who lives in Los Angeles, California. Kelly is a resident teacher at Millennium Dance Complex and The Playground LA, as well as providing training and master classes throughout the year at other studios in LA, Orange County, across the US, in Paris, (France), San José, (Costa Rica), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Montreal (Canada). She has also assisted in teaching in Mumbai, India, Singapore and Shanghai, China. Further, Kelly has taught at various national conventions such as West Coast Elite Dance Convention and iDance Experience Convention in Canada. Finally, Kelly has a lot of experience with teaching on zoom as she’s consistently been doing that since the pandemic in 2020. She has students all over the world who take her classes weekly and whom she mentors.

Artists Kelly has danced for include Jennifer Lopez, Bebe Rexha, Lil Uzi, Tinashe, Kylie Cantrall, Jojo Siwa and That Girl Lay Lay. Kelly has performed in live shows such as the 95th Academy Awards, “The Oscars” 2023, The Kids Choice Awards 2023 (Nickelodeon) and VaxLive, a Concert to Unite the World with JLo at SoFi Stadium.

Kelly’s film experience include “The Little Rascals save the day (2014)” Netflix’s “The Prom”(2021), Indian Bollywood Movie “Naa Peru Surya Naa”, and is starring in the upcoming dance film “Step Aside” (Amazon Prime). TV shows she’s been in include Hulu’s “Love Victor”, NBC’s “World of Dance”, Brat TV’s “Total Eclipse”, Netflix’s “Country Ever After”, Disney Channel’s “Disney Princess Remixed”, Disney’s “Holidays Unwrapped”, Disney’s “Hall of Villains” and ABC’s “School House Rock 50th Anniversary Special” (Hulu, Disney+).

As a choreographer Kelly recently choreographed for The Laker Girls (NBA) and was one of three choreographers for NBC”s Dancing with Myself with Shakira, Nick Jonas, and Liza Koshy. She was assistant choreographer for season 16 of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” and ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars”. She choreographed for Dreamworks’ Troll Movie’s music video “September” and has also choreographed for theater productions including “Seussical the Musical” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Finally, Kelly regularly choreographs award winning group and solo routines for different competition teams and schools across the US.

Kelly has consistently had and continues to have diverse experiences and opportunities as professional choreographer and dancer. The natural complement to all, however, is Kelly’s dedication to teaching – professionals, recreational dancers and above all, younger rising performers. Helping to create the dancer as a physical artist interpreting music – that is Kelly’s goal as a teacher. With her well rounded training background in all styles of dance, Kelly’s jazz funk style is particularly strong in cleanliness and musicality. She encourages and challenges you in her classes, with her attention to detail and high energy choreography. By teaching, she hopes to inspire the next generation of dancers and educators to become the best versions of themselves and bring out their inner artist.