Born on the West Coast, Raised in the Midwest and now living in New England, Boston-Based Dance Artist Kendra Heithoff loves creating tangible dances.

With a commitment to create dances that reach out and touch the everyday dance audience; and dancers with diverse and professional training, her choreography has made quite and impact in New England.

Kendra's choreography has been shown at the Boston University Dance Theater, Green Street Studios, The American Dance Legacy Institute, The Dance Complex, University of Minnesota's SDC Concerts and Minneapolis' Red Hot Art Festival.

Kendra has toured internationally in Trinidad and Tobago with Global Worship Movement and performed professionally with Sokolow Now!, Urbanity Dance Project, Dance Currents, Nautilus Music Theater, Kay Cummings, Linda Talcott Lee, Joe Chvala and Charles Moulton and interned with Black Label Movement of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her early training was under the direction of Kathryn Rose Reimler, Dorota Dannenbring of the Warsaw National Dance Company, The Omaha Ballet Theater and Ballet Magnificat! of Jackson, Mississippi.

In addition to teaching private lessons, Kendra is the Site Manager and lead teacher for the Boston Ballet's Taking Steps Community Outreach Program.

Kendra holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

When she's not creating dances, you can find her spending too much time with her stand mixer, making hats, taking photographs or talking to one of her four pets.