Ridley, Arielle

Arielle Ridley fell in love with dance at the age of thirteen in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. By the age of seventeen, Arielle found a passion for performing, teaching, and choreographing. She earned her BFA with honors in Dance Theatre from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, attending both the NY and LA campuses. She has trained under choreographers and instructors such as Genevieve Carson, Monika Felice Smith, Laura Berg, and Tracie Steinfield. Some of her most recent achievements have been touring the Eastern Pennsylvania Region in The Body Keeps the Score: TOUR as a featured soloist, and performing at the International Human Rights Arts Festival in NYC with JCWK Dance Lab. Currently, she lives and works in the Philadelphia area, is dance faculty at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, performs with JCWK Dance Lab and Y.u.S Artistry, freelances, and teaches at several different dance studios.