KYLA BARKIN

Kyla Barkin, raised in Tempe, AZ., studied with "La Mariquilla" at the Academia de Ballet Flamenco in Granada, Spain. She attended Arizona State University, then received her BA in dance from UCLA. Kyla has been working with Janis Brenner & Dancers since 1993, with whom she has toured to countries such as Indonesia, Russia, and Taiwan as well as teaching and setting works at various places including the Julliard School. Ms. Barkin has danced with Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends (since 2003), The Doug Elkins Dance Company, Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Kun-Yang Lin, and others. Her choreography has been shown at The Merce Cunningham theatre, Dance space, Dixon Place, Center Stage, the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, regularly at The Moveable Feast, and other venues across the U.S.. She has been on faculty at USDAN Center for Performing Arts and teaches classes, private lessons and workshops internationally. Kyla is also a Fitness Professional, a Medical Exercise Specialist, a yoga teacher/therapist, has published both poetry and prose, a singer/songwriter, and one of the original producers of The Moveable Feast, a "pARTy on the move w/ an ever-changing menu". Kyla is thrilled to have recently joined CDDC in September of 2006.

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