Mikaela
Kelly Dancer

Mikaela Kelly is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award in dance. A native of New York, she trained at American Ballet Theatre’s JKO School for 5 years and went on to attend the Juilliard School’s BFA program. After graduating in 2018, Mikaela joined Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and danced with NDT2 for three seasons before she joined Ballett Theater Basel in 2021. Mikaela has danced works by many choreographers including: Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Nacho Duato, Sharon Eyal, Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Paul Lightfoot and Sol León, Johan Inger, Hans Van Manen and Medhi Walerski.