Mackenzie Allen

Mackenzie is a New York-based freelancing artist. She began dancing at Metropolitan Ballet Theatre in Rockville, MD when she was five years old. She later trained at The Washington School of Ballet and attended summer intensives at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet Austin, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, America Ballet Theatre, and Kaatsbaan Extreme Ballet.

She attended Indiana University where she trained with Kyra Nichols, Carla Korbes, Violette Verdy, and Michael Vernon while earning her B.S. in Ballet and B.S. in Accounting. She danced with Island Moving Company in Newport, RI before moving to New York City to freelance and work with a variety of companies such as Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Brooklyn Ballet, Trainor Dance, Quixotic Cirque Nouveau, and Errant Movement.