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JESSICA LEE KELLER
BIO: Jessica Lee Keller is a professional Dancer, Actor, Choreographer, Artist & Bodyworker. Originally from Stillwater, Minnesota and holds over 30 years of experience. Best known for her role as 'Struts' on Disney Channel’s Original ’Teen Beach Movie’ and 'Teen Beach 2'. She was one of the original members of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in NYC where she performed works by Crystal Pite, Ohad Naharin, Alonzo King, Benoit Swan Pouffer, Jacapo Godani, Cidi Larbi, Jo Stromgran, Jodi Gates, Angelin Preljocaj, Lauri Stallings, and Nicolo Fonte, to name a few. After 6 years with the company, her artistic versatility took her to the commercial world where she has worked both in front of and behind the camera.
Jessica has been featured on countless stages & silver screens, from dancing & acting to movement direction & costume design. She can be seen in the new AppleTV+ series 'Palm Royale' starring Kristin Wiig, Ricky Martin & Allison Janny. She was the female dancer for Lykke Li's video album; ‘Carousel’; Has worked alongside countless award winning Choreographers/Directors, including Jon M. Chu, Christopher Scott & Jamal Sims in the viral ‘Virgin America' in flight safety video, Jem & the Holograms, Microsoft Surface, Now You See Me 2, the Ellen Show; Episodes of ‘Afterparty’ & ‘Crazy x-Girlfriend’ with Kat Burns; Tyce Diorio & Taylor Swift in the live performance of 'ME' for the Billboard Music Awards; JLo’s Music Video and AMA performance of ‘Limitless’ by Travis Wall & Nappy Tabs. She is featured in Carly Rae Jepson’s Music Video ‘Too Much’ by Matthew Peacock and can catch her singing & dancing in ‘RENT LIVE’on FOX, choreographed by Sonya Tayah, to name a few. She landed guest starring roles as an actor in hit shows ‘Code Black’ on CBS, ‘Lucifer’ on FOX & CSI-Las Vegas. She stars in the award winning short film ’The Way It Begins’ by Chris Wright. Jessica played Prin in Season 3 of the 'LXD' - 'Mess in Isle 7' & 'Rise of the Drifts'; and starred in the 2014 Alpine Headphones campaign with Dir. Jeffery Horniday. She has performed on stages around the world, as well as multiple live appearances on ‘DWTS’ including 'Classic' w/Derek Hough, 'Heart Cry' w/Alison Holker & Derek Hough, 'Titanium' w/Christina Grimmie & the LXD; ‘SYTYCD’, 'X Factor’, 'Glee', ’The Voice’, 'American Idol’, 'The Ellen Show', ’The View’, ‘Good Morning America’, & ’The Rosie Show’. ‘Future Man’ on Hulu, Austin & Ally & ’Shake it Up’ on Disney Channel.
Agency:
Clear Talent Group: 818-509-0121
Meisha Goetz meisha@cleartalentgroup.com
Joe Ciccarone joe@cleartalentgroup.com
Matthew Lodgson matthew@cleartalentgroup.com
Music videos include the viral video ’Stay the Night’- Zedd/Paramor, ‘Master Hunter’ & ‘When Brave Bird Saved’-Laura Marling, 'Harder than the First Time' -Blake McGrath ‘One Last Smile’–Van Ness Wu, 'The Music’s No Good Without You’-Cher, ‘Wepa’-Gloria Estefan, ‘It Don’t Mean A Thing’-Matthew Morrison, ‘Shoot’-Shilo Gold, ‘Paradise’-Kaci. Other credits include Amazon's original Movie “The Manor” with Judith Albright, 'Out of Focus' a documentary w/Ohad Naharin, ‘Ballerina’ by DanceOn with Lil Buck, ’Surrogate Dance Séance’ with Shaping Sound, ‘Finalmente’-Nina McNeely, 'Nike', 'Die Hard Batteries', 'Crest', ‘Microsoft Surface', 'Fourth Estate' Summit w/the LXD, 'BMW’, ‘IBM’, ‘Disney’s 60th Anniversary Special’, ‘Limp Bizkit’ European Tour, ‘DS2DIO’, the NFL Experience Show, ’The Master of Disguise’, ’The Neighbors’, ‘Raising Hope’, ‘Memorial Herman’, ‘Star Search’, ‘Dangerous Beauty’ live at the Pasadena Playhouse, ‘Movement One’ –Short film with Teddy Forance, ‘A Love Complacent’ –Short film by Stacey Tookey, ‘Still Motion’ Dance Company’, Andrea Miller’s ‘Gallim Dance Company’-NYC, Jay Shetty-Live in LA, Conan O’Brian, performed with Beck on Jimmy Kimmel for his single ‘Uneventful Days’.
Her choreography can be seen in both ‘Teen Beach Movie’ and 'Teen Beach 2' as associate choreographer. ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ also gave her dual credit as assistant choreographer to Benoit Swan Pouffer and played 'Lauren' in the film, along side Emily Blunt and Matt Damon. Jessica co-choreographed the top 20 routine on SYTYCD season 12; was the associate choreographer with Mr. Christopher Scott on Emmy nominated routines ’The Gravel Road’, ’Sand’, ‘Velocity’, and World of Dance award winning routine ‘Architect of the Mind’; including routines for both SYTYCD Australia & Ukrain. DWTS routines ’Titanium’, the Emmy nominated routine ‘Classic’ with Derek Hough, as well as in ’Now You See Me 2’, ‘Jem & The Holograms’, and Gloria Estefan’s ‘Hotel Nacional’. She choreographed for Disney Channel’s Austin & Ally ‘Homework and Hidden Talents’ with Maddie Ziegler, Gloria Estefan’s performance of ‘Miss Little Havanah’ on the Rosie show, and Paramore’s performance at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards. Her contemporary pointe choreography can be seen with the acclaimed Legion of Extraordinary Dancers 'The LXD', where she also played 'Prin' in season 3. Jessica was honored to choreograph and perform for the 2015 European Games Closing Ceremony in Baku with a cast of over 2,000 performers. She has worked with the UCLA musical theater dept. & set work on the prestigious University of Southern California’s Dance Department. Countless multi-faceted programs, companies & collages. Studios around the world have given her opportunities to educate, explore & create.
Jessica is a master teacher around the world. One of CLI Studios original contemporary & improv movement educators. A Certified vinyasa & yoga sculpt instructor. She teaches a number of improvisation techniques, including Gaga (a movement technique based on the senses and imagination) for dancers and non-dancers alike. She offers Basic Forsythe Technique, Classical & Contemporary Ballet classes, Jazz, Embodiment, Movement Coaching/Direction for actors, and is in collaboration with conscious companies such as Cozy Earth Bedding & Sudio Headphones, to name a few.
Jessica comes with a shamanistic perspective where relationship is everything; currently studying with Shaman Durek; she is one of the original six Women of 'Threshold', a 9-mo container through the Maiden to Mother Archetypal Journey & healing the mother wound. 'SLOW', a 9-mo Sexual Embodiment Journey & container, liberating the Feminine from a patriarchal society and Sacred Sexuality; both led by the incredible Whitney Ullom. Jessica's deep inner-standing of movement and body, she dove deeper into her own excavation of self and the nervous system. Finding a vast love for discovering hidden truths within the aches, the longings, grief, pain, rage and, everything in between. By accompanying bodies to heal from the inside, through Somatic Based Holistic & Hands-On Healing. She recently completed 'Touching Peoples Lives' a hands-on bodywork training, with Marcela Widrig of 'Fierce Embodiment'. An ancient knowing and vitality re-awakened in her, for the first time, since childhood dreams of dancing with stars! "I am here to BE IN the fullness of MY BODY experiences and, I want YOU to feel the nourishment, the power of loving hands through touch and awareness. The space to feel your own knowing bones & body. With the safety to reveal and remember who you came here to be". We move with our wholeness or we come in pieces. I'm here to offer a space for YOU and I! To dive deeper into the untapped layers of what it truly means to be a body, in this ever unfolding human experience.
YOU aRe) vital
Touching People’s Lives - Hands On Healing training - Marcella Widrig (2023)
Threshold - Maiden to Mother - 9mo Journey- Whitney Ullom (2021-2022)
SLOW - Sex from the Soul - 9mo Journey Whitney Ullom (2022-2023)
Vinyasa Flow Yoga - 200 hr Certificate - Jessie Levine (2018)
Yoga Sculpt - Corepower Yoga-8wk Certificate (2017)
Angelic dream key mystic - 72 key installment Certificate - Stephanie Lodge (2022)
Get Turned On by Your Triggers training - Jessie Levine (2021)
Liberation + Creation Retreat - Whitney Ullom (2019)
principle dancer Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Company - NYC (2003-2010)
gaga movement language + Decadance - Ohad Naharin (2006-2008)
Forsythe technique - Berlin, Germany - Christopher roman (2018)
Co-choreo/Associate & Assistant Choreographer - Christopher Scott (2011-2016)
Edge Performing Arts Center, LA- Training / Teacher (1995-2020)
Larkin Dance Studio (1987-1999)
Barrow Group NYC Scene Study (2003-2005)
Miesner Technique 2yr program + on-going scene study - Joshua Bitton (2011-2020)
the acting Core 6mo intensive (2010)
interior design (1999-2000) / drafting - brooks college of design
drawing - lyfe wisdom school (1985 - present)
sewing - stacy lee keller (1995-present)
Trainings + experience + certifications
I want you to thrive! Let’s dive in together!