Originally from Manchester, Kayleigh trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Verve ’14. Being a freelance dance artist Kayleigh has worked with many people such as ACE Dance and Music, Southpaw Dance Company, Chhaya Collective, FRONTLINEdance, Eleesha Drennan, Tangled Dance, Tino Sighal, to name a few, and is the rehearsal director for Company Nil. She is a choreographer and Artistic Director of Company K making autobiographical work using her own experiences as a neurodiverse woman to demonstrate shared commonalities with her works ‘The Left one out’, ‘Familiar’ and ‘ROOM’ in collaboration with Company Nil. Kayleigh is also a guest lecturer and has taught at the Leeds Beckett University, NSCD, Swindon Dance, professional class for The Place, Pro Dance Leeds, Trip Space and company class for Rachel Clarke Dance Company, company Nil and FRONTLINEdance.
Kayleigh joined FRONTLINEdance team of self-employed dance artists, as a lead performer for its Birmingham Dance Hub commission, ‘Seeing Me’ in May 2019, where she enjoyed working and collaborating with new artists and communities that she hasn’t worked with before. She created a new work on our #FAF2019 residency participants at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, and delivered online summer dance sessions for our community groups during lockdown.