Meet Our Staff

Miss Kayleigh

Owner & Director, Instructor

Kayleigh Crocetto has trained extensively in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, modern, hip-hop, and pointe throughout New England and is an alumni of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts. She has attended various master classes and intensives throughout her dance career, such as at the Abby Lee Dance Company, where she had the opportunity to work with renowned choreographers such as Molly Long, James Washington, Gianna Martello, and Abby Lee Miller.

She is currently a company member of CONNetic Dance, a professional, contemporary ballet based dance company mainly centered in Hartford, CT, and has played the role of "Clarice" in their Nutcracker Suite & Spicy for nearly a decade now as well as various roles in shows such as Coney Island and Dracula. Kayleigh has also worked with Ballet Theatre Company and the Connecticut Ballet, performing in shows such as The Nutcracker and Coppelia, and has had the pleasure of performing with comedian Hannibal Buress as a ballerina in his "Gibberish" skit.

She has choreographed for musicals such as Coginchaug Regional High School's rendition of "Guys and Dolls" and has worked as a dance instructor at outreach programs throughout Connecticut. Most recently, Kayleigh taught and choreographed a routine for Brewster Elementary School's dance festival, in which all grade levels (K-3) danced together at once!

Kayleigh is an involved member of the Dance Studio Owners Association Inner Circle, where she collaborates with incredible dance studio owners from all over the world and learns from top experts in the field. She recently began working as a "Studio Captain" for the DSOA, a role in which she shares her expertise through live interviews, participating in roundtables, and offering mentor services to other studio owners that partake in the DSOA's trainings and programs. In addition to her dance career, Kayleigh is an Honors College alumni of CCSU and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing.