A NOTE FROM CHELSEA...
-My class focuses on exploring full bodied athletic movement, as well as subtle gesture work, driven by texture and feeling.
-It requires an open-mind, focus, breath, and willingness to be vulnerable.
-I suggest you wear clothes that flow and a pair of socks to allow for silky transitions.
-My class focuses on exploring full bodied athletic movement, as well as subtle gesture work, driven by texture and feeling.
-It requires an open-mind, focus, breath, and willingness to be vulnerable.
-I suggest you wear clothes that flow and a pair of socks to allow for silky transitions.
Chelsea Thedinga is a New York City based performer, choreographer, and movement educator. She grew up training in Las Vegas, Nevada at Inspire Dance
Company under the artistic direction of Robert Contreras. She continued her studies at the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts and International Studies with a major in Dance, under direction of Jeanine Huggins. Upon graduation, Chelsea relocated to Los Angeles to further her training, and begin her professional career. There she began assisting choreographers Sonya Tayeh, Travis Wall, and Stacey Tookey on FOX’s So You Think Can Dance. In 2011 Chelsea started touring with latin artist Chayanne on his world tour No hay impossibles choreographed by Nancy O’Meara and Tyce Diorio. After tour Chelsea continued to pursue a commercial dance career in LA. Her film and television credits include the MTV Video Music Awards, La La Land, Glee, In the Heights, VOX LUX, Up Here, The Academy Awards, The Ellen Show, Dancing With the Stars, The Emmy Awards, American Music Awards, and America’s Got Talent. She has danced in musicvideos for Christina Perri’s “Jar of hearts”, Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water,” Steed Lord’s “123 if you want me,” and is the featured dancer in Sara Bareilles’s “Fire.” She has completed 6 national tours with Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound, and has performed with Stacey Tookey’s company Still Motion Dance, that presented work in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, and Jacob’s Pillow. Chelsea relocated to New York in 2016 where she began dancing with Tayeh Dance as a principal dancer in Sonya Tayeh’s original works Foresight Hindsight at the Cape Dance Festival, and You’ll Still Call Me by Name at New York Live Arts, Hudson Valley Dance Festival, and Jacob’s Pillow. She was a featured performer in Al Blackstone’s Freddie Falls in Love. She's a founding member of Jenn Freeman’s Freemove Dance, and with Freemove, she has been a part of two original creations when and ..it’s time.., which have presented at the Palm Desert Choreography Festival, and the 14th street Y. Most recently, Chelsea performed with Peter Chu’s company chuthis and has been in creation for Black Swan the musical under direction of Rachel Chavkin and Sonya Tayeh. As a choreographer and an educator, Chelsea combines her commercial and concert performance experience in an explorative style that translates in both spaces. Her classroom intention is to create space for dancers to explore movement free of judgment and full of texture and feeling. In 2021 she set work on Novea Linea dance company for their inaugural season, and was the associate choreographer to Will Loftis for a dance scene featured in The Girl from Plainville starring Elle Fanning. She has also set countless award winning pieces for prestigious dance programs across the country, as well as in Costa Rica. In New York City, Chelsea has choreographed solos for graduating seniors at NYU and Pace University. She is currently teaching contemporary on faculty at Adrenaline Convention and was recently nominated for “Convention Teacher of the Year” at the Industry Dance Awards. New York City remains her home base, where she enjoys teaching guest classes at Steps on Broadway and Mark Morris Dance Center as well as collaborating with local artists to explore dance on film. |