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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Kylee Kitchens is from Laguna Hills, California. She trained at West Ballet Academy, where she studied with Yvonne Mounsey and Rosemary Valaire, and on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. She joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2000.
Ms. Kitchens has performed leading roles in George Balanchine's Agon, Divertimento No. 15, The Four Temperaments, A Midsummer's Night's Dream (Titania), and Serenade; Merce Cunningham's Inlets 2; Mark Morris's Pacific; Kent Stowell's Firebird, Nutcracker (Peacock), Quaternary, and Silver Lining; and Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room. In 2003, Lynne Taylor-Corbett re-choreographed the second movement of Mercury for Ms. Kitchens.
She has also been featured in Balanchine's Apollo, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, Concerto Barocco and La Valse; Trisha Brown's Spanish Dance; William Forsythe's Artifact II; Ronald Hynd's The Sleeping Beauty; Peter Martins' Fearful Symmetries; Marius Petipa's Paquita; Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free; and Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Cinderella, Swan Lake, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. She originated a featured role in Christopher Stowell's Quick Time.
Kylee Kitchens in George Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. (Photo: Angela Sterling) |
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Ms. Kitchens danced in the BBC's 1999 film version of PNB's production of Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream, filmed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. In 2005, she performed the lead in Petipa's Paquita as a guest artist with Los Angeles Ballet.
Headshot Photography: Angela Sterling.
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