Guest Artist Kerry Lee BIO

Kerry Lee was born and raised in Atlanta, where she received her early dance training from the Atlanta Chinese Dance Company, Atlanta Ballet, and Rotaru International Ballet School.  She holds a BS in Management Science and Engineering with a minor in Dance from Stanford University, where she trained under Kristine Elliott, Diane Frank, and Robert Moses and performed works by George Balanchine, Marius Petipa, Amy Seiwert, Janice Garrett, Alex Ketley, Maurya Kerr, Sophie Monat, and Hai Yan Jackson.  While at Stanford, she was also the recipient of a Major Grant from Stanford’s Undergraduate Research Programs, which enabled her to train intensively at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (NY).  As a professional Chinese dance and modern dance artist, Kerry has performed in thirteen US states and the British Virgin Islands with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company (NJ), Dance China NY, H.T. Chen & Dancers (NY), gloATL, and as a solo artist.  She has also taught Chinese dance classes and workshops at the Museum of Chinese in America (NY), Beijing Chinese School (NY), Chen Dance Center (NY), Stanford University, and Kudzu Playhouse.   Her awards for dance include the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and a scholarship award at the Southeast Regional Ballet Association (SERBA) Festival.  Kerry was recently selected to perform "In Mourning" as a part of the 2012 Modern Atlanta Dance Festival, Atlanta’s only professionally adjudicated modern/contemporary dance event.