Staff & Fellows

Office Location: Horace Mann 44C

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Linzey Rice is an arts administrator and dance practitioner working at the intersection of arts education, community engagement, and research. Rice is currently the Administrative Manager of the Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership, Dance Education EdD Program, and the Arnhold Dance Education Research Studios at Teachers College, Columbia University.

In addition to her professional arts administration experience with organizations such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Modern & Contemporary Wing) and Momentum-Excellence (an affiliate of National Dance Institute), Rice brings critical insights to the field of dance education from her experience as a dancer and choreographer, college instructor, and PreK-12 dance teaching artist. Her work as a teaching artist spans a variety of educational contexts, including community-based programs, private dance studios, and dance education outreach programs. Rice’s recent performance and artistic work has been featured in Peridance and Alvin Ailey Extension performance projects, an adjudicated performance in Hixon Dance's City Dance Showcase, New Vision Dance Company’s Save The Arts Showcase and Retrospective III, ballet productions of The Nutcracker and Cinderella with Artisan Dance Studio, and Cultivate Dance Project's 2022 Company Showcase, Where I Was. CDP's dance film "Memory is a Monster" was featured in local and international dance film festivals, including Constructed Sight Dance Film Festival and Cleveland Dance Fest Virtual Dance Film Gallery. 

Rice earned a dual BA in Dance and Communication from Wittenberg University and a MA in Arts Policy & Administration from The Ohio State University. There, her research focused on community arts partnerships and creative youth development, and she independently instructed undergraduate arts education courses as a Graduate Teaching Associate. An active advocate for the arts and social justice, Linzey graduated from the YWCA Columbus Leadership for Social Change program and organized arts advocacy efforts alongside Creative Ohio (formerly Ohio Citizens for the Arts), Student Advocates for the Arts, and the Ohio Arts Council.

Now based in New York City, Rice continues to pursue independent work as a dancer and choreographer while advocating for accessible and equitable arts education.

Mónica Silva is currently an Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and a doctoral student in the Dance Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is also a member of the Studies in Dance and Scenic Practice research-creation group within PUCP's Vice-Rectorate of Research.

Previously, Mónica served as Head of the Academic Department of Performing Arts at PUCP for four years. She also directed the undergraduate Dance program at the Faculty of Performing Arts, where she led the design of the new curriculum and established the PUCP Dance Company. Additionally, she coordinated the Dance, Body, and Scene research group and has actively participated in various academic and professional networks across Latin America’s performing arts community.

Mónica has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, recognizing her contributions as a dancer, choreographer, and educator.

She holds a B.A. in Education from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an M.A. in Dance Education from New York University.

Her intended area of specialization is interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on contemporary dance.

Kellyn Mylechreest is a New York City and Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, immersive performance artist and movement educator. She is a Doctoral Student in Dance Edu-cation at Teachers College, Columbia University and holds her M.F.A. in Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and her B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance Performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. As a dance educator, Kellynworks as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Dance at Queens College, CUNY and Queensborough Community College, CUNY, and is honored to step into the role of the Program Coordinator for Morningside Dance Works at Teachers College, Columbia University. In the past, herwork as a teaching artist has led her to work with companies such as New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey’s Arts in Education Programs, bringing modern, ballet and hip-hop to students across the five boroughs of NYC. She has also previously served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Queens College, the Dance Company Director at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology and the Divisional Dance Leader with The Salvation Army.

As a dancer she has had the opportunity to perform works by Ohad Naharin, Lar Lubovitch, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Ori Flomin, Betsy Coker, and Mariel Pettee. She has worked with companies such as Twyla Tharp, Linked Dance Theatre, Houseworld Immersive and Blue Morph Collective, and her choreography has been featured on companies such as City Lyric Opera, FIT Dance Company, CAST Company, Second Ave Dance Company, Rave Theater Festival, NACHMO film festival and more.

Kellyn’s teaching experiences have led her to write two dance curriculums, “The Dance Collective,” a 52 week ballet curriculum, and “The KéKay Method,” an alternative preschool movement-based curriculum, which is used in schools across the nation. Her work in the dance industry has led both her creative and academic research to be focused on making the dance world a more inclusive, diverse and safe space for dancers everywhere, and is thrilled to be bringing this same mission to the Morningside DanceWorks program.

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