CHOREOGRAPHER
Kimberly Davagian is a dance artist, educator, and choreographer originally from Massachusetts, where she trained at Boston Ballet before earning a BFA from Fordham University/Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, with a minor in philosophy. Based in New York City after graduation, she performed with several modern dance companies, including Heidi Latsky Dance, and toured nationally and internationally with companies based in New York, LA, and Colorado.After relocating to Colorado, Kimberly served as an adjunct professor of dance fundamentals at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and ballet technique at Pikes Peak State College. She was also a yoga instructor at CorePower Yoga and an active performer, choreographer, instructor, and board member with Ormao Dance Company. During this time, she collaborated with figure skating coaches and elite athletes at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, providing artistic direction and choreographic development for competitive short and long programs executed by aspiring Olympic figure skaters.
In 2019, Kim earned an MFA in choreography from Jacksonville University following a guest artist teaching residency and thesis performance in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Upon returning to California, she held faculty appointments as Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and at Idyllwild Arts Academy, where she taught modern technique, composition, and improvisation. During the 2022–23 academic year, Kim served as Chair of the Dance Department at the Oakland School for Arts.
Kim is thrilled to lead the modern dance program at DC Dance LA and remains dedicated to creating original work and teaching ballet, pointe, improv/composition and modern technique classes to beginning to pre-professional movement artists, both nationally and internationally. She will also return as a faculty member at Orange County School of the Arts for the 2025–26 school year as well as serve as a member of the admissions committee for the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA for the 2026-27 academic year. Kim continues to grow the yoga / meditation program at Safe Place for Youth Venice where she facilitates weekly classes to educate and empower unhoused and at-risk youth in her community. Kim greatly looks forward to performing with the dance company String Theory in April 2026.